If I’m putting eq/effects on each individual drum track (kicks, snares, hats) should I NOT be adding more eq/effects to their group channel if create a group? Will that make it over processed?
Thank you so much!
If I’m putting eq/effects on each individual drum track (kicks, snares, hats) should I NOT be adding more eq/effects to their group channel if create a group? Will that make it over processed?
Thank you so much!
There is no rule at all. If you think that the drum bus needs an eq, then go for it. For instance, you might feel that the drums sound good, but the highs need to stand out a little more, in which case you could use an eq to accentuate the highs a little bit more. I usually use Splice samples (one shots, not loops), which are already processed, so I don’t always need to process them again. But, 99/100 times, I process them as a group/bus channel. This would usually be, eq - light compression - transient shaping - distortion/saturation - soft clipping. Again, there’s no rule, the goal is to make them sound the way you want them to sound. Now whether you achieve that by not using an eq or using an eq, is totally up to you :)