First you need to tune the levels of your snares, toms, kick and hihat dry.. means no overhead in the mix.. Basically you use the loudest instrument at 0dB as reference point (ex. the snare). Then tune the rest refering to that.. After everything sounds balanced, onli then you gradually bring in the overheads to add some ambience.. Also you need to pan your toms and overheads Left to Right.. If not, they won't have a stereo spectrum and might even clip both L,R channels

This post has been edited by nkphnx: May 17 2009, 08:32 PM