[In10city]

Brandon, I have a printout from Mackie's page of our board surface with all the EQ settings and I make notes for each recording. I EQ EVERY mic input before they get submixed into the final recording. From there I may make minor bumps here and there but I try to get all the drums sounding "right" leaving room in the spectrum for drums to fit where they belong so to speak. I generally try not to boost any frequency as a rule. I try to find any frequencies that make each specific drum sound bad and cut them just a bit. Once I do away with individual drum mic'ing I'm sure it's all gonna change... Great. Like starting over in a way but if it sounds better it will be worth it.

I do use some compression, gate, and moderate levels of reverb on the kick and snare but try to keep it sounding as clean as possible. I usually submix the drums into left and right and then we build the rest of the song in another file which can be a pain in the ass becuase the drums sound different once everything is added and I typically have to re-mix the drums.