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I'm thinking it might be nice to add some more snares to my arsenal.

I've been using Vengeance and Urban Fire samples a lot of the time and they do the job just fine, but something different would be good. I guess I'm looking for the opposite of those two.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I guess the opposite would be something less compressed, more James Blake.

Sampling.

As in, to just sample them from other people's records?

I've nothing against that, but I don't find it's that time-effective. You import the tracks, you isolate a hit and export it, then after 5 min or whatever you only have one single hit.

I turn to sample pack people to do all that shit for me, and on a massive scale, to allow me to be properly lazy.

Bodega wrote:As in, to just sample them from other people's records?

I've nothing against that, but I don't find it's that time-effective. You import the tracks, you isolate a hit and export it, then after 5 min or whatever you only have one single hit.

I turn to sample pack people to do all that shit for me, and on a massive scale, to allow me to be properly lazy.

Bodega wrote:As in, to just sample them from other people's records?

I've nothing against that, but I don't find it's that time-effective. You import the tracks, you isolate a hit and export it, then after 5 min or whatever you only have one single hit.

I turn to sample pack people to do all that shit for me, and on a massive scale, to allow me to be properly lazy.

yeah, but it gives you the opportunity to get almost EXACTLY what you want, rather than a bunch of hits that other people have chosen from you. sometimes you just listen to a tune and it's got that perfect sound, and you NEED it

it doesn't take 5 minutes either. I just write down tunes with stuff that I want to sample, and after a while I take a day to sample, and just chop em all out, process them just a little bit if they need it, and then sort them. at the end of the day you have a nice fresh collection of sweet drum hits.

You're misunderstanding what I want. I don't want something specific that I've heard before.

I want the opposite of the huge, multilayered and overcompressed snares that are all over dubstep, not any one specific snare.

If nobody has any suggestions (barring Knell - cheers for that) then that's fine - perhaps a set like that doesn't exist.

But it'd be nice if it did.

Having a huge palette of sounds taken from other peoples records to me is like having a dinner of food taken from other peoples' plates.

Bodega wrote:You're misunderstanding what I want. I don't want something specific that I've heard before.

I want the opposite of the huge, multilayered and overcompressed snares that are all over dubstep, not any one specific snare.

If nobody has any suggestions (barring Knell - cheers for that) then that's fine - perhaps a set like that doesn't exist.

But it'd be nice if it did.

Having a huge palette of sounds taken from other peoples records to me is like having a dinner of food taken from other peoples' plates.

no one says you have to sample drums from just dubstep, it's actually more fun and a lot more flavorful to grab stuff from all over, whether it be old gospel drum breaks (amen cough cough), jazz, dub, drum solos, etc. Drums are drums, no matter where they come from.

you don't have to keep that sampled hit the way it is either. sometimes one just uses them as a nice starting point. put that bitch into kontakt and play with it a bit, resample it, and keep going and you'll get something totally different. besides, i don't think it really matters if it's "someone else's hit". you're putting the work into it and giving it a new context, which makes it "your hit" just as much as it's "theirs".

the large majority of those drum hits in those sample packs are merely just sampled drum hits anyways (with a shit ton of processing, especially with vengeance)

I just process snares from superior drummer. Multi-layered pro-studio sex-recorded drums FTW

SunkLo wrote:I just process snares from superior drummer. Multi-layered pro-studio sex-recorded drums FTW

superior drummer is the SHIT

addictive drums are pretty neat too

i think hes basically looking for more organic drum sounds rather than the harsh stuff most brostep producers use. as said before, look to jazz and soul music. stuff like that. sample mecca.

I know you said its time consuming, but with production you cant really be lazy if you want to make something new!

Make your own recordings and shape them into a snare like sound. Doesn't have to be an actual snare. Think beatboxers!
Hey presto, you'll have your own original sounding snares and who knows, people might want snare sounds like you one day!

sampling snares from dubstep for use in dubstep = hilarity.

no man, sample from old cock rock or something. anything. believe it or not - there is music outside of dubstep. it doesn't take 5 minutes to cute one sample; i can rip and slice a beat into 25 different samples in a couple of minutes.

but if you want good sample packs, loopmasters is solid. again, you don't have to get the dubstep packs just because you are making dubstep. listen to them all, pick the pack that has the sounds you want. they even have some real drum kit packs.

look for breaks on the grid, and then cut the snare you like from them.

couple nice rim shot sample packs lying about on this forum aswell if thats what your looking for.

http://www.facethemusik.net/2008/10/29/ ... announced/

really liked the sounds out of this one

Sampling snares, kicks etc from tracks is still sampling, like sampling bass or vocals is, but snares are less "unique" then say a bassline or vocals are, there's only so much you can do with a snare til it sounds like the next one. I'd be suprised if people on here could listen to a track with sampled snares and tell instantly where it'd come from. It doesn't make sampling "right" (or wrong, either) but it's not as bad as it could be.