Adding reverb to your drums.

[Erebus-7]

you reason guys are wacky.

[naw]

Use a send/Aux channel?

that's the way

[the get down]

you reason guys are wacky.

haha just what i was thinking...

[green plan]

you reason guys are wacky.

[Basic A]

more importantly, you're going to wire your kicks to a different channel and keep that one dry. Put each of your snares into a channel of a 6:2 line mixer with a plate on it, wire the 6:2's outs to a channel on your main mixer. aka bussing. Watch some tutorials too.

im lost on a foreign planet, and cant find my way back down. Please send a real DAW immediately.

[Ldizzy]

I reccomend you EQ or hi pass your reverb, that way it will sit alot lighter on the snare

sounds like a smart idea hehe..
keeps the mud out..

what frequencies do u guys generally recommand for a generic chunky snare peaking somewhere in the 100 to 200 hz ?

i mean, where do u roll it off ?

[naw]

hi guys!

i work in ableton
what i do is to put one chanel with a impulse (same as redrum)
and there i put all the samples and draw the midi.

afterawards create a return chanel with a reverb

then i separate the samples and procces them alone.
sending some signal to a return chanel in this step!

then i mix them again and send a bit of the signal on the drums to return chanel with a small reverb filtered. before that the signal has reverb too but then i listen it more together.

http://soundcloud.com/auran-mirath/naw-drums-example

[In The Shadows]

hmmmm..

what i do is have a combinator saved with a 16:2 mixer and an instance of redrum..
all outputs of redrum are wired to channels on the 16:2

so its just a matter of creating an instrument to get this setup!
Its easy to individually effect hits.. and you also get more sends and visual control of volume(even tho i think reason's meters are shit)

for snare I usually give each hit(layer) different verb.. (very short) to make them gel.. then throw on the main verb.

Thats allmost exactly the same as what i do, except where you have the Redrum, i have an NN-XT with the outputs routed to the mixer.

Far more possibilities with the XT, so much better suited for layering hits i think, plus its the only module in resaon that displays frequency readings on the filter.

yeah the NN-XT is the only real way to go with drums in Reason if you are getting serious with it. The Redrum is great for little things, but then you eventually end up using 3/4 of them chained together because youre limited to 10 hits per unit, then you find you want to edit the tone on a sample thats not in a slot with tone as an option, youre editing patterns over 4 different midi screens, its just nonsense. Just use a single NN-XT, load a few 100 drum samples into it and away you go, edit the lot on 1 midi track. If you have 15 kicks you like, 30 snares and 50 hats/perc, just load them all into the Xt and save the patch rather than picking out the 10 you want use every time.

You got 8 outputs, I link each one of those to a 14:2 mixer, each going through an mclass eq on the way to balance the tone of the hits. Then I have 2 different reverb chains set up as sends on the mixer itself, one with a long decay and one with a short decay. They both have 2 mclass eqs in the chain killing everything below about 3/400hz and curving up to maybe 700ish, after the reverb. Sometimes I also put a little dip around 1.5k just to stop them clouding the punchy section of the high end too much, depends what sounds you are using.

I got to agree with reasons meters being shit too.

I reccomend you EQ or hi pass your reverb, that way it will sit alot lighter on the snare

sounds like a smart idea hehe..
keeps the mud out..

what frequencies do u guys generally recommand for a generic chunky snare peaking somewhere in the 100 to 200 hz ?

i mean, where do u roll it off ?

if you mean cutting out the low end on the hit itself, Id usually use the same eq I have on my kick, starting around 80/90 maybe and hitting the deck somehwere in the 50s. If you mean cutting the low end off the reverb, as above, completely nuke everything below 300 to 400 and curve it up from there over a few 100hz. All depends on your tastes and what sort of sounds/reverb you use. You dont want it to be too thin or it doesnt sound right, but you dont want it to have any low end pressure either.