When you layer your drums...

[analogheart]

I was reading some of the Samplecraze stuff on layering drums and wondering what you guys tend to do. Do you go ADSR method or do you EQ out the freqs you don't need on each layer? Those Samplecraze books are seen btw

[Sonika]

EQ all the way, I dont load them into a sampler either, I lay them all out in an arrange view, then EQ, and them send them to a bus and do some light parallel compression and possibly a little bit of reverb to make it all sound like one kit. But really the only mandatory part is EQ for me

[jaimelee]

Throw a pile of samples into Drum rack, mess with the ADSR and EQ until they meld together and start adding the sparkly bits then, compression etc.
I never bounce them out to a single drum noise or sample because you may want to change it up as you go along with automation or just doesn't fit. Advantage of drum rack!
Also have the reverb and such inside Drum rack so I don't have to cry over the tons of Sends/Returns chains cluttering up my screen.

[jrisreal]

too much to ask for a bit of both? lol, I lay the clips in the playlist, move them, chop them, automate, AND eq them...gotta have that full control.

[e-motion]

Both

[Aphile]

Both

winner winner chicken dinner.

ADSR and Transient shaping from the get go, then EQ after you have your desired punch or attack

[Lectric]

I usually dont mess with ADSR, just cut notches in each sample's eq so the whole kit accommodates each sample nicely with no clash.

[Sonika]

I usually dont mess with ADSR, just cut notches in each sample's eq so the whole kit accommodates each sample nicely with no clash.

I pretty much do this.

Though I should mess around with transients and stuff

[joshisrad]

Maybe don't layer drum sounds until you're advanced enough to be able to decide intelligently and immediately whether or not you need to do either and in what way. New producers want to dive into the most buzzed/hyped techniques when I swear half of them aren't necessary to get a bangin track. Endless resampling is another gospel that gets preached that falls into this category.

[drift]

Both

[e-motion]

One more thing... the samples should sound good together without EQ or ADSR. Most of the times, if they don't, they'll never sound perfect after processing (imho).