In this video I’ll show you how to use Fabfilter Saturn 2 on drums going from this
to this:
I'm Marlon, and this is the White Noise Studio
This video will be about the total drumsound
I covered how to use F abfilter Saturn 2 on snaredrum in part 01
and in Part 02 I showed how to use it on bassdrum.
Check those videos if you haven't done so already.
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 Here's the drumpart I recorded for this tutorial.
Saturn 2 is the plugin I use because it has a few very handy features 
like a gate / compressor dial
a feedback knob,
mix wet controls,
 and of course multiple frequency bands with controls of 
various independent saturation and distortion types.
I’ll  go over the individual elements of the drumkit which I haven’t done yet.
Toms are first.
I’ll loop a part with toms.
 Both toms are somewhat on the short side.
Here's the low tom.
I want to increase the thickness and make it sound bigger.
I can do that by adding low end and high end ,
but I’ll first reduce the lower mid range,
from 300 hz to around 900hz
because that is what can make toms sound boxy and I use the gate to make it tighter.
This already improves the sound a lot.
The low end I’ll compress a bit and increase the hi end and gate that.
I’ll use the tone knobs to fine tune the sound.
I basically created a smiley eq curve for the floortom, with some extra control.
Here's the high tom.
For tom1 I simply copy the settings of the low tom,
I can do it from scratch, but these toms have a similar character.
Let me finetune it.
  And here's a room mic.
 The room mic is nice to have somewhat squashed.
First I will roll off some of the low end.
 And i will use a warm tube for the rest.
This will make the cymbal a little bit nasty, so adding a band over here
and dial down the drive and also the volume
and even use the toneknobs to reduce the hi end.
I want these two bands to blend more into eachother so I will adjust it to 6dB per octave.
And tweak the band
Let me compress it a bit.
 And let's hear it in the mix.
I need to lower the level of it, of the entire plugin.
So now the saturation is focussed on the body of the drums and not on the cymbals.
I’m not touching the hihats now, they sound fine
So now let’s use Saturn 2 on the drumbus.
Saturn 2 can also serve as a parallel drums bus saturator / compressor thanks to it's mix dial.
 And, depending on the type of music and vibe you’re 
after you can play around a lot with the types of saturation.
LEt me show you.
It has warm tape now.
And let me dial back the mix knob
You canhear the drum mix fattening up a bit.
Let's check out gentle saturation
I can use the toneknobs to skulpt the sound a bit
 And let's try warm transformer.
 Ypu notice the low end is impacting the saturated sound a lot
So let's reduce that one by adding a band
 and i will turn down the mixknob and even turn off the entire band.
 Now it get's really squashed but the low end stays intact.
 Let's adda band to reduce the hi end in the mix
I will tweak the bands a bit
  and make this 12dB's per octave to get a little more blend between the bands.
It really adds a lot of beef to the drum sound.
Let's do a before and after.
This is before.
And this is with all Fabfilter Saturn 2 plugins enabled.
And disabled
What sound to much now with only drums can be perfect in a complete mix.
This concludes part 03 of the series mixing drums with fabfilter Saturn 2.
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