Adjusting the volume of drum samples is the easiest mixing process to consider, both at the start, during, and at the end of the production process. Even with regular instrument tracks, it’s as easy as it gets. Adjusting the volume of certain tracks will allow others to fit in and not clash all that much, hopefully not at all! It comes quite naturally to even people who have just come into the music production game.

If you want to adjust volume of any track in your favorite host, you really don’t need to go far. For instance on the Redrum device in Propellerheads’ Reason, there are volume dials and meters on the left side, on every single bus track and also in the main mixer. So you can change the volume of drum samples in quite a few places and you really don’t need to go searching around for a lot of stuff. It has never really been easier, and you certainly don’t need hardware to mix things in today’s programs.

On the most important mixing ‘rules’ considering volume is that if the instrument or drum sample is so quiet that it really cannot be heard with the other instruments, it should probably go, because you’re just filling the sonic space with garbage that could be used for instruments that actually contribute to the mix. This does make sense, and any mixing engineer will offer a similar viewpoint, so ensure that if you keep lowering decibels and realize that something is not identifiable in a complete mix, it adds nothing and could actually be lowering the value of your instrument selection.

Did you know that a sound can be lowered by six decibels and lose half of its perceived volume? This is actually the same when increasing by six decibel – that is, you will increase the volume by one part. When mixing drum samples like hi-hats, a popular tip is to lower it a few notches below where you think it should sit. This is because our human ears hear the higher frequencies at a higher level than the others.

Velocity and volume are not the same things. Lowering volume does make a sound quieter, but velocity comes in at another level as well. If you are manipulating a multi-sampled drum samples patch, then playing at a different velocity can even trigger a different sample entirely. This is true performance playing and synthesizing.

You should always take care when lowering volume, and never make decisions recklessly. Pay attention with every creative decision. One tip offered by a lot of professional mixers is that sounds should be lowered and never increased in volume. This will ensure that no clipping occurs and that sounds are the best volume they could possibly be. With drum samples, try to mix it in as a group, separate from the mix, before mixing it together.

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