Deep Dive: augmenting/humanizing a stereo recording w/o the original tracks (rreplays "distdrum")
Channel: The Digital Guitarist
Date: 2021-02-05

Some deep surgery on a two track stereo mix (rreplay's "distdrum") to provide a bass drum that is not in the original, some backbeat syncopation on the snare, clear up some thin bass tone while still working with the bass drum, fixing some guitar problems, and pulling the transients out of the original track to add a percussive background track that humanizes the drum machine sound.

After all that, there were still a couple of things left that I cover I this short (6 minutes) follow-up: https://youtu.be/2Q4xUbKZfYE .

If you would like to you can compare:
the original: https://soundcloud.com/rreplaymusic/distdrums
and the final version (after the second video, not this one):
https://soundcloud.com/rreplaymusic/distdrums-1

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Plugind and software used:

Recorded in Plogue Bidule, with too many plugins to remember. but definitely Ohm Studios Frohmage on the drums (NuSofting
s benerable DK+2 drum machine) in the original track and Variety of Sound's SlickEQ and ThrillseekerLA on Bass.      

Transient File processed in IRCAM's TS2

Mixed in Ableton Live.  Plugins used or mentioned include: Waves BrauerMotion, Hornet Harmonic Distortion, Tokyo Dawn Records Nova Gentlemans edition, Izotope Low End Focus and Dynamic EQ, RS-MET Engineer's filter, Soundtoys Little Plate, Voxengo Span a bunch of Ableton built-ins.   Mentioned: Transformant, Airwindows Dithers, Valhalla's reverbs, Freeverb, Oril River Reverb,  Melda Productions.