airy breaks

mooseforyebs · Post by **mooseforyebs** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:16 am

how do producers manage to get such airy (for lack of a better word) sounding drums? the sound is so soft...yet so damned heavy at the same time. example are both breaks in this tune...mainly the intro though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x6PfdXdRRo

scooterjack · Post by **scooterjack** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:27 am

good sample selection - proper processing (eq/comp/etc) - reverb

hurlingdervish · Post by **hurlingdervish** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:32 am

pitch up the break you slice

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:22 am

ScooterJack wrote:good sample selection - proper processing (eq/comp/etc) - reverb

^^this.

brightondubhead · Post by **brightondubhead** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:14 pm

nowaysj wrote:Dude, I know what your saying. Not nec in terms of breaks, but in general, like benga beats, all those drums have major hi freq noisish type content over them. I don't understand how he makes those sounds. It can't be just samples, because its a very common thread through all of his beats. Just totally guessing it's some saturation plugin with a character compressor.

watch this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b69DS_id-Y he talks about how he mixes his drums here

contakt321 · Post by **contakt321** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:36 pm

brightondubhead wrote:
nowaysj wrote:Dude, I know what your saying. Not nec in terms of breaks, but in general, like benga beats, all those drums have major hi freq noisish type content over them. I don't understand how he makes those sounds. It can't be just samples, because its a very common thread through all of his beats. Just totally guessing it's some saturation plugin with a character compressor.
watch this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b69DS_id-Y he talks about how he mixes his drums here

Great vid, but doesn't address the OP's question at all.

duskky · Post by **duskky** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:53 pm

youthful_implants wrote:
ScooterJack wrote:good sample selection - proper processing (eq/comp/etc) - reverb
^^this.

Definitely this. It's all about choosing good samples and knowing exactly how to use EQ, Compression and Reverb to draw out the right sonic elements. It's all about training your ears and learning your plugins.

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:18 am

or old sampled breaks from vinyl or cd that had some air and using a hardware sampler
did it on a dnb tune im almost done with atm with funky mule and the akai i use da/ad converters emphasized orig air on break even at 18+ db gain on unit

cheers for wanting to keep the air in breaks most people try to clean it up

grooki · Post by **grooki** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:47 am

at first I thought the OP meant a really clean sound, but according to deadly habit it sounds like he's talking about something like transients?

One way I found to make a good break was to make a drum pattern, then put quite a bit of reverb on there. Export the pattern and re chop it up. Now every hit will have transients from other sounds, but still sound choppy.

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:01 am

grooki wrote:at first I thought the OP meant a really clean sound, but according to deadly habit it sounds like he's talking about something like transients?

One way I found to make a good break was to make a drum pattern, then put quite a bit of reverb on there. Export the pattern and re chop it up. Now every hit will have transients from other sounds, but still sound choppy.

listen to shit like paradox or seba or even macc's shit where orig break has original air over it emphasized to make it sound 70s, 60s etc ish

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