Wave Goodbye to Weak Drum Sounds
Discover the Tools You Need to Transform Your Drum Mixes From Puny to Powerful...In Any Genre
Do Your Mixes Suffer From:
- Boomy kick drums that compete with the bass and ruin your low end?
- Weak snare drums that take all the drive and power out of the song when they vanish in the mix?
- Piercing cymbals that hurt your ears when you turn up your mix so you can never make it loud enough to compete with commercial records?
And a thin drum sound that makes your mix sound small?
Poorly mixed drums will make any song sound amateur, and an amateur mix means that your music will not be taken seriously.
Imagine knowing exactly how to mix powerful and punchy drums every time.
You’d know exactly how to:
- Dial in the right EQ settings to get your kick drum to cut through the mix
- Enhance the high-end of your snare to make it snappier
- Remove the harshness from your cymbals to make your drums sound smoother
And make your drums drive the foundation of your mix instead of dragging it down.
So, if you’re tired of weak drum sounds, let me give you all the tools you need to mix powerful drums that drive your songs forward.
Introducing: The Drum Mix Toolkit
The Simple Tools You Need to Know for Punchier Drum Mixes
This toolkit will give you everything you need to know to transform weak and wimpy drum sounds into powerful and punchy drum mixes.
- In-Depth eBook: An In-Depth eBook to Create Punchy and Powerful Drum Mixes ($47 Value)
- Video Course: 11 Videos With Quick and Practical Tips To Help You Get Great Drum Mixes Right Away ($99 Value)
- Plus: Two In-Depth Drum Mixing Walkthroughs Using Both Acoustic Drums and Samples ($47 Value)
- Free Bonus: Drum Mix Toolkit Resource Sheet and Practice Tracks ($27 Value)
- Free Bonus: Indie Folk Rock Drum Sample Pack ($30 Value)
- Free Bonus: Percussion Toolkit Cheatsheet ($17 Value)
- Free Bonus: How to Record Drums From Your Home Studio and Become an In-Demand Session Musician Masterclass ($29 Value)
- Free Bonus: 2024 Drum Mixing Masterclass ($27 Value)
Total Value: $323
Yours: Only $67 $47
Instant Access - 100% Better Drum Mixes or Your Money Back
"What I've learned in this package will be used on my bands/brothers' drum tracks for years to come!"
"Drum Mix Toolkit is a fantastic resource. Not only is it a well-written book full of tips, tricks, and workflow methods that you can implement today, but to me, the best part is that it also contains video examples by Bjorgvin himself so you can actually hear the techniques in action! It's one thing to read about audio, but it's another to see exactly how to use these techniques in a real session, and more importantly, to hear the differences made through the process. To top it off, Bjorgvin has provided the practice tracks he used in the videos for free as well! Absolutely fantastic and highly recommended! What I've learned in this package will be used on my bands/brothers' drum tracks for years to come!"
-Jonathan Timpe, Musician/Engineer
Here's What's Inside the Drum Mix Toolkit:
Drum Mix Toolkit eBook and Video Course
Follow the Drum Mix Toolkit and you'll discover a simple, repeatable process for producing great drum mixes every time, no matter what genre you're working in.
- Learn to use EQ to remove boxiness and boom to make your drums sound smooth
- Uncover the magical frequencies that make kick drums more powerful, snare drums snappier, and overheads feel wider
- Learn how to use compression on every drum, what settings you should start with, and how to tweak your compressors for maximum effect
- Learn the difference between compressing your drums directly and using parallel compression to add even more power
- Learn how to add reverb to your drums without cluttering up your mix.
- Learn how to add saturation to enhance your drums
- Learn how to use transient designers to shape your drums, add attack, and remove a home-recorded drum sound
- Learn to shape your drum sounds in time with your tracks to create more excitement in your mix
Bonus #1 - Drum Mix Toolkit Resource Sheet
- 25 Drum Mixing Resources to Improve Your Mixes Even Further
- An Overview of Popular Sample Replacement Tools
- Where to Find Transient Designer Plug-ins
- Resources for Practice Materials and Multi-tracks
- Advice on Making Your Mixes Translate to Every Speaker
Bonus #2 - Indie Folk Rock Drum Sample Pack
The Indie Folk Rock Drum Sample Pack includes 30 one-shot drum samples of kicks and snares taken from my personal mixing sessions that you can use to get better drum mixes right away.
You'll get each sample's clean and mixed versions, making it easy to drag and drop samples into your sessions to quickly get a good drum mix.
Bonus #3 - Percussion Toolkit
- How to Use Arrangement Techniques to Make the Most of Your Percussion Sounds
- Where to Pan Your Percussion to Make Your Mix Sound Wider
- How to Use EQ and Compression on Shaker, Tambourine and Hand Drums
- Three Easy-to-Use Effect Techniques to Create Depth and Space With Your Percussion and Make it Fit With Your Drum Mix
Bonus #4 - Drum Recording in Small Spaces and Becoming an In-Demand Session Drummer
Jeffrey Anthony is an international recording and touring drummer who has performed and recorded with Sheryl Crow, The Portland Cello Project, Eric McFadden, Chuck Prophet, Casey Neil, and dozens more. He'll walk you through his drum recording setup and how he records drums in his home, how he makes his drums sound less "home-recorded," tips on getting gigs through Soundbetter and Airgigs and his story of how he got the gig of recording "Soak Up the Sun" with Sheryl Crow.
Bonus #5 - 2024 Drum Mixing Masterclass
I ran this drum mixing masterclass in 2024 for a full Zoom room where students learned how to mix drums from start to finish.
This 107-minute drum mixing masterclass initially sold for $27, but I'm including my brand-new tips inside for free with the Drum Mix Toolkit.
Listen to This Transformation
My students can make their drums sound amazing in as little as a couple of hours by using the tools I teach you in the Drum Mix Toolkit.
Peter Thompson of The Magic Es remixed one of his songs, "Headrush," after learning the techniques inside the Drum Mix Toolkit. After the remix, he made the entire kit sound punchier, more present, and more powerful.
Click the video to hear the before/after transformation.
Here's What You'll Learn from the Drum Mix Toolkit Workbook
- The Simple Repeatable Steps to a Great Drum Mix, for Any Genre
- How Your Polarity Switch Can Mean the Difference Between "Thin and Weak" or "Thick and Tight"
- How to Get Rid of Your Fear of Twisting the Knobs and Actually Shaping Your Sounds With the EQ'ing Your Tracks Need
- How to Simplify Your Drum Sound to Make Your Mixing More Efficient
- How to Use Bus Processing and Parallel Compression to Glue Your Drum Sound Together
- How This Secret Weapon Shapes Your Drum Sounds Into What You Hear in Your Head
- How to Blend Multiple Reverbs Together in Your Drum MIx, Making the Drums Sound Larger than Life
- Where to EQ Drums to Get Rid of Boxiness, Muddiness, and Harshness
- How To Use the New York Compression Trick for Tighter Drums
- Finally! An Explanation of How the Ratio of Your Compressor Affects Your Drum Sound You Can Actually Understand!
- When to Choose FET, OPTO or VCA Compression Styles
- How to Use Multi-Band Compression for a Tighter Yet MORE Dynamic Drum Sound
- How to Use Gates and Expanders to Get a Cleaner Drum Sound
- What to Avoid When Gating the Kick and Snare
- Why You Should Use Analog Summing and Saturation to Add More Warmth and Depth to Your Drums
- How to Use Parallel Compression to Add Power to Your Drums
- Specific EQ and Compression Guides for Kick, Snare, Toms and Overheads You Can Copy Right Away to Instantly Improve Your Drum Mixes
- How to Side-Chain the Bass to Get the Kick to Cut Through in a Busy Mix
- How to Get a Thunderous Tom Sound in Three Steps
- The Difference Between a Drastic and Subtle Overhead EQ (And When to Choose Which)
- Adding Space to Your Drum Mix Without Making Your Drums Sound Distant
- How to Use Two Separate Reverbs on the Snare to Get it to Stand Out
- How to Select the Right Reverb Mode For Your Song
- How to Get Rid of Ringing Drum Sounds
"helped me understand the way of thinking when mixing drums....I honestly can’t find something that I did not like."
"found a lot of tricks and tips for mixing drums. I also realised that I had totally misunderstood what compression ratio is. Now everything is clear. You did a serious and really good work...it helped me understand the way of thinking when mixing drums. And I think that was the most important. Every detail was helpful because I had previous knowledge for mixing drums but I was missing some important information on EQ and Compression which is now clearer. Transient Designers rock!!! I honestly can’t find something that I did not like. From the book and the way the content is presented in clear chapters to the incredible videos. Everything was great. Really good value for money.”
-Louis Georgiou, Musician
Here Are All the Videos You'll Get that Show You Exactly How to Make Punchy and Powerful Drum Mixes
How to Get Rid of Ringing Drum Sounds
The quick and easy way to find those annoying resonant frequencies that are making your drums ring.
9 Simple Steps to a Great Drum Mix
Shows you a fast and efficient way of getting a great drum sound, in only 9 easy steps.
How to Get a Thunderous Tom Sound
If your toms sound boxy and buried in the mix, this video will teach you to make them big, punchy and powerful.
Full-Band VS Multi-Band Compression Shootout
You'll learn the versatility of the multi-band compressor and when to choose it over the traditional full-band compressor.
How to Shape Your Drums With Transient Designers
A transient designer is the secret weapon of your toolkit. You'll learn to tweak, shape and transform your drum tracks.
The Importance of the Attack and Release on Your Compressor
You'll learn exactly what to listen for when you're finding the perfect attack and release settings for your kick and snare.
How to Use Sample Replacement Without Sacrificing the Human Feel
Replacing your drums with samples can be scary. You don't want your drummer to sound like a robot. In this video, you'll learn how to get the best of both worlds.
How to Get the Kick and Bass Guitar to Move Together in the Mix
The kick drum and the bass guitar will clash and clutter up your low-end. This video will teach you how to easily separate the two with a simple compression trick.
Two Different Overhead EQ Approaches
Depending on the type of sound you're looking for, you can approach the EQ process of your overhead sound very differently. In this video I compare the two approaches and when to use each.
Complete Drum Mix Walkthrough With Home Recorded Drums
This video combines every trick in the book, taking a boring home-recorded drum sound and transforming it into an exciting and powerful drum mix.
Drum Mix Walkthrough Using Drum Replacement
This video expands on the previous one, but this time you'll learn to replace the kick and snare and mix the samples back into the drum mix.
"I was looking for something more advanced, I found myself saying "wow, that's a great way to look at that" a lot...I think you are a great teacher and a great musician."
"You write and teach in a way that completely makes the concept or the task easy to understand. I just wanted to tell you that. Even though I have known these techniques for a while and are very familiar with them and I was looking for something more advanced, I found myself saying "wow, that's a great way to look at that" a lot...I think you are a great teacher and a great musician. Thank you for reminding me that I have at least grown a bit, but even more so, thank you for inspiring me and helping me to push forward, grow, organize, plan, and to stay positive so many times through the writings in your emails. I really appreciate it!"
-Daniel Po, Home Studio Musician
"Before reading this material my mixes were dull and muddy. Thanks to this knowledge I have pulled them out of the muck and they sound more professional than ever."
"Your training bundle helped my mixes a lot! Two techniques that come to mind are subtractive EQ and the proper use of reverb. I am currently working on a project with 20 plus tracks, many in the mid-zone of the EQ (several string tracks, piano and a few guitars clean and dirty). With the help of your books I have cleaned up most of the mud. Anyway thanks for sharing your recording knowledge with us...have helped my recordings immensely! Before reading this material my mixes were dull and muddy. Thanks to this knowledge I have pulled them out of the muck and they sound more professional than ever."
-Paul Ranson, Project Studio Engineer
Amateur Drum Sounds Will Ruin Your Mixes
Whether you're producing your own music or working with other bands, you can't overlook the importance of making your drums sound amazing.
Luckily for you, the Drum Mix Toolkit includes everything you need to mix punchy drums, such as:
- How to fix muddy drum sounds with specific EQ cuts.
- How to add punch and dynamics to the drum bus with multi-band compression.
- How to gate the drums to get rid of unnecessary bleed (GOODBYE HI-HAT HISS!).
- How to use transient designers to add attack to dull-sounding drums.
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How to get rid of the room reverb in my home recordings so that I had tighter tracks to work with.
And I learned how to blend the right drum reverbs into the mix to keep the drums present while staying out of the way of the arrangement.
Sometimes those simple tricks didn't work though...
When all else failed, I turned to something more advanced.
Drum replacement helped me layer samples into the drum sounds so I could sculpt the drums into whatever the artist wanted.
It's hard to make a bedroom recording sound like an Arena Rock Sound but with the right samples and layers of reverb, I could make a tiny garage band sound like stadium rock stars.
Once I'd add the rest of the instruments into the mix it would be a breeze to control the low-end definition between the kick drum and the bass guitar.
With a few EQ tricks and some side-chain compression, the kick and bass would drive the song forward together instead of fighting over the frequency spectrum.
After solving these problems for so long I realized that I had created my own type of toolkit to tackle each of these tricky situations. Whenever I ran into a specific problem I had a tool that would solve it.
These challenges were fun because I knew exactly how to fix them!
- Kick drum not cutting through the mix? Easily fixed with some high-mid EQ, maybe some transient design, or parallel compression.
- Snare drum sounding too thin? Some saturation and a dedicated "snare-stretch" reverb does the trick.
- Overheads sounding too harsh in the highs? Some multi-band compression will instantly tame those harsh high frequency transients.
Those are just a few examples of the tools on my utility belt I've acquired throughout the years, and now I want to share those tools with you.
Unlock the Toolkit for Powerful and Punchy Drum Mixes
The Iron-Clad Audio Issues 100% Risk-Free Money-Back Guarantee
As with all of the Audio Issues products, Drum Mix Toolkit comes with a 100% risk-free money-back guarantee.
I promise that following the Drum Mix Toolkit will make every drum mix more powerful, punchy, and professional.
There is a reason my students have told me that my training has "instantly improved their mixes." Your fans will love the new professional sounds you're releasing, and you'll impress every new client that comes to your studio because you'll easily show them how good you can make them sound.
You can go through all of the materials, watch all the videos, and browse all the bonuses before you even make up your mind. You can try all the tricks and even keep the training for a full year before deciding whether you like them or not. If at any point you decide that Drum Mix Toolkit didn't skyrocket the quality of your productions, simply email me for a full refund, no questions asked nor strings attached!
"I take my guarantee very seriously. I am not interested in keeping your money if you don’t learn anything from what I’m creating for you.
So if you’re not happy, I’m not happy. Simple as that."
Start creating professional, studio-quality drum mixes from your home studio, even if you don't have expensive equipment.
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Do You Give a FAQ About Great Drum Mixes? Because I Do...
How are Drum Mix Toolkit delivered?
Do I need a specific DAW?
Can't I just Youtube this stuff?
I've bought other tutorials, how is this one different?
What if I don't have time?
Do I need any specific plug-ins?
I use only midi drums, or only mix drum samples. Realistically, will this program help in that situation?
Is this for beginners or advanced engineers?
I only do [insert complicated and random genre here]. How will this help me?
"But music just a hobby to me..."
"But I'm just a live sound guy...will this help?"
Hi, I'm Björgvin
In case you don't know me, let me introduce myself.
I'm Björgvin Benediktsson and I've been working in the audio industry since 2006.
I've worked as a live sound engineer, a broadcast recording engineer, a professional touring musician, a freelance mixing and mastering engineer, and an audio educator. Since 2009 I've been helping people like you turn your amateur demos into professionally produced records you can be proud to release.
I’m the author of the #1 Amazon best-seller, Step By Step Mixing: How to Create Great Mixes Using Only 5 Plug-ins and the business parable, You Get What You Give: A Simple Story for Finding Success in the Music Business.
My music production techniques have helped thousands of musicians and producers make better music and I'm here to help you turn your amateur demos into professionally produced mixes you can be proud of.
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In only a few hours, you'll learn drum mixing techniques that took me over a decade to learn.
No boring theory, just practical advice on how to create kick-ass drum mixes from your home studio. Whether you're a novice beginner or a professional veteran, the techniques inside Drum Mix Toolkit will give you brand new ideas to try out in your mixes.
Looking forward to showing you how you can drastically improve your drum mixes by sharing all of the tools and tricks I've learned throughout the years. Learn from my countless hours of mixing drums and get right to the good stuff to create killer-sounding drums!
Enjoy!
Björgvin
