Start to finish
Ep.3 Getting guitar and drum sounds
w/ Vance Powell
Ep.3 Getting guitar and drum sounds
38 min • 2020
Deutsch, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese
In episode 3, Vance dials in the drums, guitar, and synth bass sounds, explaining every decision along the way.
Watch as Vance:
- Dials in tones for the drums on his SSL console and massive wall of outboard gear
- Explains his approach to getting the sound of the kit through the overheads
- Inserts 1176 compressors on the main kick and snare drum channels
- Uses multiple parallel processes during tracking on the drums
- Checks the phase relationship of all of the elements of the kit in the overheads
- Sends the "taste mic" to his famous "Beard Verb" pedal and Polysaturator
- Creates a mono drum mix to enhance the sound of the kit
- Uses a very unique technique to eliminate guitar hum during tracking. You'll just have to see... we cannot in good conscious type it out here. Trust us.
- Demonstrates how he checks phase relationships in mono
- Uses his vintage RCA microphone preamplifiers on guitars
- EQs the guitar mics
- Sets the tone for the octave down guitar
- Explains the phase relationship between bass DIs and amplifiers and explains how he addresses it.
Watch the rest of the series here
Drum Mics
- AEA R88
- Ampex 1101
- Chandler Red Mic
- Chandler TG Mic
- Neumann KM 84
- Shure Beta 52
- Shure SM 57
Guitar Mics
- Neumann U67
- RCA BK5
- Shure SM 57
Hardware
- 1176 F
- API 525 Compressor
- BK1 Preamps
- Beard Verb Custom Delay
- Capi Preamps
- Chandler TG1
- Empirical Labs Distressor
- Neve 33609
- Pigtronix PolySaturator
- Radial XTC
- UTA MPDI-4
4.8
75 reviews
rielly.m • Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Would love to work with Vance! this seems so fun and sounds great.
Smutje • Friday, July 9, 2021
This is a general comment on site structure: I just watched the first episode of this start to finish series. Why can't I just have the second episode coming up next? Either automatically or at least make it easy for me to click on it. Why do I get unrelated "related" videos instead of the thing wich I want the most?
I want a list of the videos coming up next in this start to finish series on every single episode. Please!
jasonkohls • Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Vance slays. I could listen to him all day. I might book a day down in his studio just to hang out!
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Jazzek • Saturday, June 19, 2021
Mega gut!!!
jofret10 • Saturday, May 15, 2021
Excelente serie, te abre la mente a infinitas opciones y te deja claro que mezcclar es mas que equipos.... Gracias Puremix
Naptuning • Sunday, April 4, 2021
MORE!!!
Sebastian • Thursday, April 1, 2021
Love this drummer
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lopez_noah • Saturday, March 13, 2021
When he put the vocal mic in on the drums at 18:00 I was instantly thinking D'yer Maker. Also, this guy is a master! I could watch him teach all day.
joey.ci • Monday, February 15, 2021
I clicked the link to download the exercise files, but all that was in there was the PT session. Are the stems in a separate link?
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alexsonicmx • Friday, February 5, 2021
It's amazing how every single step keeps adding a bit to end sounding super great, Vance has a really worked out method, really nice to watch.
Es increíble como cada paso va agregando un poco para terminar sonando groso, Vance ha trabajado su método muy bien a lo largo del tiempo, es genial poder verlo
Castor X • Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Vielen, vielen Dank für diese großartige Reise und den super Song.
sleepisoptional • Monday, January 25, 2021
video loses sync around 1hr
cool parallel tricks
Pearlpassionstudio • Sunday, January 24, 2021
Excellent tutorial...thanks for doing these. Cheers
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Jose Luis Loera Carrillo • Sunday, January 17, 2021
I discover mi voice at a late age and I been practicing whit the use of a head phones and i like what I hear I believe I have potential.I saw puremix ad and even that I steel don’t understand how it works call my attention and I want to see it like a tool that it may improve my performance or at least give me hope
tim.ka • Sunday, December 20, 2020
Those drums are bass ass! Great performance with great tracking/mixing!