The Most Inspirational Plugins For Drums with Marc Daniel Nelson

What are your go-to plugins for mixing drums? Let me know below!

Thanx Marc :)

Sounds absolutely incredible. Man, what a great instructional video.

great intro to your idea, but i would really love a more hands on example. will watch again, but when you say instead of just placing it, did you mean automating it witht the trigger or were you referencing something on the application of this concept that i didn't pick up on? Thanks either way i'm just starting to learn how much goes into quality/interesting drums.

Context. I’ve never felt like I’ve needed a trigger on any mix

this is one of the better tuts on this subject. thanks for this.

Marc does some of the best videos around. He is clear. Concise. His vids are always a great length. What he did with the transient shaper here was invaluable. He made that whole kit get bigger but it felt bigger and didn’t just sound like he turned it up. He injected tone into it. Amazing. Thanks

“Sampling is cheating” is said by the same people who are too good for amp sims

Love all of your videos, but i don't agree on this one. Being a professional drummer myself, I think that those resonances you've added are exactly what most of the drummers try to avoid. I understand you were missing something, but I very much prefer to hear enhanced drums from reverbs, or rooms, or parallel distortion, or saturation, like Radiohead kind of style drums, just to mention one name. I feel the additions you've made both on kick and snare made the superbly tracked drums sound a bit cheap. With all due respect for your incredible skills.

Too much talking and very little demonstrating. Who has time to sit through this?

Thanks again for another great video. Your mixes sounds awesome. I almost use Tonetracks drum plugins on all my mixes

Ha, ha, ha, BORN in the USA Snare & Led Zeppelin Kick, the 2 most famous sounds in Rock History.
Great Video Daniel ! Thanks a lot !

I don't have Trigger, but I use Slate Drums 5.5. I just drag the kick and snare audio tracks and Pro Tools converts to MIDI. I still have to go in and delete any hits picked up by the bleed, but it's not too tedious. Even if you don't want to use sample enhancement for drums, just using a snare sample to trigger the reverb is useful. You don't have to deal with the bleed from the OH going into the reverb. Makes it easier to shape the sound of the verb.

@marcdanielnelson317 Is this from the Billy Decker Drumshotz Soundforge expansion? On sale right now, incidentally. Thanks for the tips!

The mix at the video ending sound better to me than the link

Marc thanks so much for sharing, always an inspiration!!!

"Lets focus on that snare sound now" -- I was thinking before he said that,..."that snare sounds awesome". Lol....but it can be more awesome,.....obviously.

You look like the price that wasn't the one the go for (in Disney's terms!! not mine!!) but this tutorial is golden.

Why won't you tell us more why RATM sound is why you dialed it there in the first place?

nice

Nice job man, you really do a great job with enhancing the drums!!! Thanks for the tip, great lesson.

love the sweater and the ooey glooey drums!

When doing an A/B it drives me crazy when the narrator announces in….out….back in. Totally throws the ears off. The in/out labeling on the screen is all you need.

CLA Drums...because I have no clue what im doing! As a hobbyist who uses cheap mics and a whatever empty space I can find to record in - Im still struggling to balance my mics never mind meta level processing 🙈

great sound what a difference suttel but dramatic

cool new style, respect!

@marc daniel nelson insights are invaluable. I miss your long hair though, you looked so cool man !

😘😘😘

Are you using the free version of Trigger?

When Mark talks I learn. Whatever he says! He could as well talk pear pie recipe I'd be absorbed

This Marc - and his telescopic hearing!

You're a legend Marc!! Just backed up that my idea's correct! I've been using trigger a lot lately purely to add, weight or attack & it's actually incredible tucked in a little. Trigger likes to add latency though so it's cool to print them as an audio file, blended or each sample - Gives me more power. Transient by ACME is a fantastic free transient designer

But WHAT is that thing that Andy Wallace does SO well? I know he has a trigger that triggers the reverb, but his kicks “bloom” so unbelievably well.

Kick ambience sounded great. It's subtle when you try to hear it, but it's very impactful when you just feel it!

Great video! Thanks and a happy new year

Appreciate your sci-fi-deck-officer-on-the-flagship-of-some-evil-empire’s-fleet sweater!

Killer Tone Thanks Marc

More Marc please. You rock man.. very cool and totally practical. ❤

Well this was pretty epic

When Mr. Nelson was talking about ambient sounds, I starting thinking of a short shimmer effect. Like if shimmer and slap back had a baby. I tinker with mixing and I use Addictive Drums 2. With that plug-in, I can add triggers to the kick and snare by adding pre-made triggers or adding another bass drum or snare. It would be awesome to study under Mr. Nelson. So far digging all his videos. Like the sweater, too. Happy New Year, y'all.

Yes Sir!

Just scored this Transient Shaper plugin on Plugin Boutique for $10 yesterday and glad I did!

Nice! I may try that even for EDM mixes as an experiment.

Great video! The results sound amazing, but I wonder at times if the live acoustic recording is even necessary? If you’re using live drums to capture the performance, then triggering samples, can’t we just skip the complexity of mic’ing a full kit?

Great Vid !

Thanks Marc! Love Taylor Hawkins and miss him!!!

As a hobby metal drummer who came to edrums I have to state with respect to "sampling is cheating":
I mean ... ok. From the musicians (drummers) point of view, it is ... if you program the finest beats awsome chops that you can not play in a real live perfomance.
From the engineers point of view definitely not! I mean you got awsome drums sets in an awsome studio with outstanding mics and equipment recorded by an experienced engineer.
And yeah ... more options. Like always recording the raw signal of a guitar and then reamping it. It the same!

So, I would state, that - as a hobby, semipro drummer, you will never ever have the sound of a perfect recorded drumset like that I have here with my creepy edrums set. Hahaha! 🙂
Do you? Dude, it so much (more) fun to use these edrums and enjoy the every single hit.
Really. Ha. So, at least the "Making-of"s of Toontracks libraries suggest that the whole team put so much love and enthusiasm and musical life blood into these things ... Together with a short story of a certain studio, mic or console... They got me! That might by just marketing but... I am convinced!

I love using sampling libraries!

Average listeners wonder why anyone spends this amount of time on a snare. I know, but almost no one else discerns this level of detail on a snare, but it does sound great.

With programed drums, I'll try different 'kits' for the room reverb, IK Multimedia MODO Drums does that job wonderfully! Waves Abbey Rd consoles great for parallel compression/EQ Trash track!

Dr. MD, wonderful advice! Great help.