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Posts: 15Posted 20 years ago #Looking for a few tips on getting the most from my drums, currently sampling and doing a little teaking in the ASRX but looking for some advice on compression, reverb, mastering etc to get that nice fat sound, anyone have any good settings, recommendations for plugins (we are talking software here at the mo), signal chains etcm ,y problem is overuse of plugins actually I think, the drums sound great straight out of the X but always end up overcompresed, clipping etc -
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Posts: 524Posted 20 years ago #Hey mang!
To get a dirty sound try Izotope Vinyl
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What I've found to get a nice fat drum sounds is to first start off using organic drums sampled from vinyl. Honestly I've found they always hit harder(kicks) and knock better(snares).
Next would be to layer them, kicks are tricky because you don't want the bass to sound muddy. Snares are easier. Have you're main snare, then layer another one underneath it about 25-35% less dB than the main. Also setup an envelope on the lower snare to match the large one to help give it an impression of one FAT snare.
Adding a little bittle of reverb also helps fatten it out. Not too much where you can tell there is, but just a little bit with about a .4-.7 second release time, and a small wet signal.
Well, hope this helps. I don't compress my drums too often, I like organic sounding drums.
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Posts: 180Posted 20 years ago #big d said: Looking for a few tips on getting the most from my drums, currently sampling and doing a little teaking in the ASRX but looking for some advice on compression, reverb, mastering etc to get that nice fat sound, anyone have any good settings, recommendations for plugins (we are talking software here at the mo), signal chains etcm ,y problem is overuse of plugins actually I think, the drums sound great straight out of the X but always end up overcompresed, clipping etc
one trick i have when trying to make the snare and kick to sound the same when they are diffenernt is to pass them through the same filter and lay a LOW version of the kick under the snare so the snare has the kick in it....just a lil trick i use..i hope it helps you because it did for me and now i moved on to better techniques.
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