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What up dsf fam...
So when it comes to snares, apparently it's best to take the top, mid, and bottom from a few different snares to give it that nice big smack. My question is, what frequency ranges do you guys recommend. I'm thinking 20-100 for lows, 100-1000 for mids, 1000-20000 for highs? I suppose whatever sounds good really, but just seeing what yall recommend.

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That's the best plan. Though I would raise the low frequency range up a bit.
Most snares don't even touch those freqs. and you wouldn't want it to clash with kicks or subs.

i play it by ear
the carbon copy 200 hz boost pendusnares are part of what started putting me off dnb

xPARAMETERx wrote:What up dsf fam...
So when it comes to snares, apparently it's best to take the top, mid, and bottom from a few different snares to give it that nice big smack. My question is, what frequency ranges do you guys recommend. I'm thinking 20-100 for lows, 100-1000 for mids, 1000-20000 for highs? I suppose whatever sounds good really, but just seeing what yall recommend.

You don't really want anything below 200 with a snare, maybe 150 but no lower!

Muddy snares = lame

I do it by ear too, line up a load of samples and A/B them them send them all through a compressor to blend them back together (if it doesn't have an auto-adjusting envelope then use the fastest snare's attack and the longest release so it sounds cohesive)

Yeah right now I'm cutting them all at 150hz and then blending them together with no other EQ actually and it sounds sweeeeeet. Maybe it's more about using quality samples? Thx for the help

xPARAMETERx wrote:Yeah right now I'm cutting them all at 150hz and then blending them together with no other EQ actually and it sounds sweeeeeet. Maybe it's more about using quality samples? Thx for the help

yea you can't really polish a turd, well you can, but it's more effort than it's worth
best bet is to start with high quality samples and learn about layering and enveloping the hits together to build that sound you want

Apathesis wrote:

xPARAMETERx wrote:What up dsf fam...
So when it comes to snares, apparently it's best to take the top, mid, and bottom from a few different snares to give it that nice big smack. My question is, what frequency ranges do you guys recommend. I'm thinking 20-100 for lows, 100-1000 for mids, 1000-20000 for highs? I suppose whatever sounds good really, but just seeing what yall recommend.

You don't really want anything below 200 with a snare, maybe 150 but no lower!

Muddy snares = lame

not true at all. plenty of snare drum sounds have a lot going on at 100hz-- use it right and it's not muddy, it just smacks you in the chest.

TeReKeTe wrote:

Apathesis wrote:

xPARAMETERx wrote:What up dsf fam...
So when it comes to snares, apparently it's best to take the top, mid, and bottom from a few different snares to give it that nice big smack. My question is, what frequency ranges do you guys recommend. I'm thinking 20-100 for lows, 100-1000 for mids, 1000-20000 for highs? I suppose whatever sounds good really, but just seeing what yall recommend.

You don't really want anything below 200 with a snare, maybe 150 but no lower!

Muddy snares = lame

not true at all. plenty of snare drum sounds have a lot going on at 100hz-- use it right and it's not muddy, it just smacks you in the chest.

True.

I just can't take pendulum snares lol, I've grown afraid of low snares

What up dsf fam...
So when it comes to snares, apparently it's best to take the top, mid, and bottom from a few different snares to give it that nice big smack. My question is, what frequency ranges do you guys recommend. I'm thinking 20-100 for lows, 100-1000 for mids, 1000-20000 for highs? I suppose whatever sounds good really, but just seeing what yall recommend.

Whatever is required for the tune and sounds right in the mix.

its all about fundemental frequency. Find a snare that hits in the right area your looking for (200hz) and boost the crap out of it

Deadly Habit wrote:

xPARAMETERx wrote:Yeah right now I'm cutting them all at 150hz and then blending them together with no other EQ actually and it sounds sweeeeeet. Maybe it's more about using quality samples? Thx for the help

yea you can't really polish a turd, well you can, but it's more effort than it's worth
best bet is to start with high quality samples and learn about layering and enveloping the hits together to build that sound you want

this and also pitching the hits, adjusting transients, eq so they aren't fighting, bussing back together and compressing.