{"id":20655,"date":"2014-12-09T17:59:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=20655"},"modified":"2014-12-09T17:59:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:59:28","slug":"readers-choice-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2014\/12\/09\/readers-choice-drums\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader&#039;s Choice: Most Popular Drum Production articles in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Dan Gonzalez<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Free Quick Kit Project Templates for SONAR X3 Users<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\"><a title=\"Download the Quick Kit Templates\" href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/static\/SessionDrummerQuickKits.zip\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20667\" title=\"SONAR-X3-SD3-Templates\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SONAR-X3-SD3-Templates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we&#8217;re bringing back the freebie post from last December. Our Free Quick Kit Project Templates made a big splash with the community as one of our top posts over the last 12 months. These pre-mixed project templates load right from quick start menu in all three versions of SONAR X3 without any assembly required. Open a quick kit, drop in your sequence, and you\u2019re ready to rock with great sounding drums. Now we&#8217;re opening it up to anyone who has Session Drummer 3 in their arsenal. \u00a0Download the free pack <a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/static\/SessionDrummerQuickKits.zip\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>9 Microphone Techniques for Recording a Snare Drum<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20663\" title=\"Condenser-Mic\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Condenser-Mic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"348\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Ever wanted to know how to mic up a snare drum? Well we wrote a comprehensive article about 9 different ways to do it. This article is brought to you by the community of Cakewalk readers that follow the blog and read it regularly. Check out the article <a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/microphone-techniques-for-recording-a-snare-drum\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s New in Addictive Drums 2?<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20661\" title=\"Addictive Drums 2\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Addictive-Drums-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"292\" \/><\/div>\n<p>2014 brought us more than just content, it brought us Addictive Drums 2. Ever since we&#8217;ve posted our extensive video about XLN Audio&#8217;s new instrument we&#8217;ve heard nothing but great reviews. Here&#8217;s our most popular video chosen by the readers of The Cakewalk Blog. Check it out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m-sF4jXiodI\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Subtractive EQ Part 1: Snare Drum<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20664\" title=\"Snare-Bot\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Snare-Bot1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"379\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of our most popular posts this past year in case you missed it the first time around. There are a ton parts to this series, but the first part has seemed to win over the rest. Here&#8217;s a nice thick article about how to apply subtractive EQ to a snare drum. Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/subtractive-eq-snare\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Setting up your Addictive Drums<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20662\" title=\"AD-Simple-Ins-Track\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/AD-Simple-Ins-Track1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"383\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Check out how you can easily setup Addictive Drums (1 &amp; 2) to accommodate multiple different working environments within SONAR X3 Studio and Producer. This one of kind drum synth is the best of the best. Check out the article <a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/sonar-quicktip-setting-up-your-addictive-drums\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to use Compression on Snare Drum in SONAR X3<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20665\" title=\"How to Compress A Snare Drum\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/How-to-Compress-A-Snare-Drum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Using compression is one of those tools that is tricky to understand if you&#8217;re not familiar with how the different audio signals in your mix. Check out our most viewed video from the extensive video series about using the CA-2A Leveling Amp on snare drum. Check out the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n375U57S-9w&amp;index=3&amp;list=PLCPMyFyv8V04m99IogmUQNXncs-Kkjx1Y\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Compress Drum Reverb in SONAR X3<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20666\" title=\"How to Compress Drum Reverb\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/How-to-Compress-Drum-Reverb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"337\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Another popular drum related video from the Compression video series is #6 where I give some tips on using compression on drum reverb. You can see the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B8CXrlnLv6Y&amp;index=6&amp;list=PLCPMyFyv8V04m99IogmUQNXncs-Kkjx1Y\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Producing Drum Samples in SONAR X3<\/h3>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20668\" title=\"Producing Drum Samples\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Producing-Drum-Samples.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"337\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last but not least we&#8217;ve seen that our community has really enjoyed our Producing Drum Samples video series. This video series is available to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLCPMyFyv8V05IYzEIP2DxWhlu04ly6M8r\">here<\/a>\u00a0and guides you through some awesome ways to mix and EQ drum samples to your liking.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for more Drum Production tips check out the tag for this on our blog <a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/category\/music-production-tips\/drum-production-tips\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dan Gonzalez Free Quick Kit Project Templates for SONAR X3 Users &nbsp; Yes, we&#8217;re bringing back the freebie post from last December. Our Free Quick Kit Project Templates made a big splash with the community as one of our top posts over the last 12 months. These pre-mixed project templates load right from quick &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2014\/12\/09\/readers-choice-drums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reader&#039;s Choice: Most Popular Drum Production articles in 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836,92,97,99,103,52,111,1,53,54],"tags":[1171,1425,1613,446,877,94,1984,1978,1979],"class_list":["post-20655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-2a-t-type-leveling-amplifier","category-daw-best-practices","category-drum-production-tips","category-engineering-tips","category-microphone-tips","category-sonar-x3","category-studio-recording","category-uncategorized","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-compression","tag-drum-production","tag-drum-samples","tag-eq","tag-microphone","tag-recording","tag-sonar-x3","tag-sonar-x3-producer","tag-sonar-x3-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}