You can’t not hear the bass line. Love the drum parts in this song. Super deliberate and every drum fill is orchestrated and performed with a specific intention. It’s one drum performance from beginning to end that doesn’t change, super catchy and memorable. Early in my career I was doing a ton of auditioning. Most of the auditions were through a guy who recently passed away named Barry Squire. He was a great dude and I met a lot of the people I still work with today through him. Most of these auditions were cattle call style with sometimes up to 50-75 musicians auditioning on the same day. To make things easy, Barry had all of his musicians learn two songs, Hysteria by Muse (this song) and My Hero by the Foo Fighters. We all played those songs a million times in auditions, these drum parts and fills are forever burned in my memory. This was a fun drum mix. The snare is almost raw except for a tiny bit of EQ and some compression. The drums in this song have a really cool rawness to them that I wanted to maintain. The toms and kick have some basic EQ and I used parallel compression on the kick drum, snare, and toms to add some grit. I also have a super compressed floor mic tucked between my hi hat and snare drum that gets smashed with compression. That’s tucked in there also. Dominic Howard is the man.
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