Just found out my kick drum's tuning was off by 30 cents on every track
I was going through stems for my new EP last night in San Salvador when I decided to run a frequency analyzer on the whole D11-04 session for the first time. Turns out my kick drum was sitting at 49 Hz when I thought it was tuned to 45 Hz, that's nearly a 30 cent difference right in the low end. I've been producing for 6 years and never once checked the actual pitch of my drums, just relied on what sounded okay in my headphones. I pulled up the tuning guide from a producer forum I lurk on and sure enough, my ears were lying to me the whole time. How many of you actually tune your kicks to a key in your tracks, or do you just eyeball it like I did? I'm thinking about going back and re-pitching all the drums in the album now, feels like a huge mistake to leave it.