Tom rumble Uncut/Cut A/B comparison When a drum kit is recorded, the mics on the toms are always recording the continuous rumble tones of the toms. This A/B online comparison shows the effect that deleting the rumble from the three tom tracks has on the overall defintion of the drum kit. Songbite "A" is the mixed drums with tom rumble. Songbite "B" is the mixed drums with the tom rumble deleted.
Here is the Tom rumble uncut/cut A/B comparison

Songbite "A' 0:00-0:14 The 3 light green tracks are the unedited tom tracks.
Songbite "B' 0:15-0:29 Hear are the edited toms.Tom 1 was not hit during this section

Waves Maxx Bass A/B comparison. This song, "All She Sees" is in the final stages of the recording process. We have the drums, guitars, bass and vocals. Now is the fun part- adding the icing. I asked the artist, John Vurtuno, to bring in the Tal Bachman CD with "She's So High" on it so I could A/B our recording with a similarly styled commercially released recording. I was interested in listening for Elements Of Production such as the type of icing (percussion? incidental keyboards? etc) After A/B-ing our recording with "She's So High" I made a mental note that we needed to add some percussion and melodic interaction, John questioned the lack of fullness (my translation: our recording was lacking in sub bass content). I explained that I would probably add Waves Maxx Bass to the mix during the mastering process. I quickly added Waves Maxx Bass to Digital Performer's master mix buss to show him what Maxx bass can do to the overall bass sound of a mix. We then A/B'd our mix next to "She's So High" and heard that our mix had a similar low end. Here is the Waves Maxx Bass On / Waves Maxx Bass Off A/B online comparison. The sound source is a portion of John's song "All That She Sees". Note: You will need to have a playback system that has decent bass response to experience the effect that Wave's Maxx Bass has on sub bass enhancement.

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