chopping breaks is so fucking wack

[Equality 7-2521]

yo when ya chop a break you always get a hihat or some shit still stuck to the kick drum or snair. ya cant get the kick, hhihat and snair all seperate and solo.

why do so many poeple chop breaks?

sure its good for matching drum kits but its fucked when your trina actually program your shit.

am i doing anything wrong here or should i keep hating on break chopping?

 

[TrustNo1]

if ur chasing a kick drum and a hi hat is polluting it just put down the cutoff frequency and then EQ it again to make it sound full. ..

 

[Equality 7-2521]

is it worth the trouble?

how long does it usually take you?

 

[vitaminman]

Hey,

Is it worth the trouble? HELL YES. I love nothing more than to sit down with a couple illegal drum samples, a freshly installed copy of CEP, and a few hours of work trying to make my own drum patterns out of everything. It is SO satisfying to figure out different ways of taking elements of one pattern and mixing it with elements from another pattern until you have absolutely no idea where the final result came from.

And then, with a wave editor, you can really screw around with things...reverse reverbing snares, running only the hats through a delay, isolating a frequency band and doing something crazy to it, whatever. Sure, it's not like having your own individual hits to work with, but that not the point; the point is to make a cool sounding beat that is uniquely yours.

Take care,

Nick

 

[Equality 7-2521]

ok thanks for the help.

to be specific, i have a kick drum which has a shaker sound attatched to the end of it. ive tried chopping off the end (which does get rid of the shaker sound) but that makes the kick drum itself much too short. the cut off point is too early. although its too short, will adding reverb give its original length back smoothly? (id try it but my soundcard is fucked. im trina work out what ima do ahead of time)

trust: are you talking about compression?

 

[DJ Reflex]

Hey! Reverb will solve that but also (a lil fav of mine) u cud copy the clipped drum to another pad, compress it, add some reverb and a warm tube filter, then turn it down and play simultaneously with ur original sound! This sounds quite unique, and has a nice affect.
peace!

 

[TrustNo1]

naw man, not compression....in your case...the shaker is on a high frequencer, so slap a low pass filter on that piece to keep the kick but it will cut out the hiss of the shaker...then you add like some hi-lo EQ to the sample after its been filtered, maybe some reverb, depending on how you want the kick to sound...then ya i guess you could finish up with a compressor to make it sound IN YOUR FACe again...its worked for me. hoep it helps

 

[Equality 7-2521]

beserk did a good reverb job but i dont like the swooshing effect the reverb gave to the drum

ill try the low pass

 

[Haterade]

Hey- try this:

Cut out the shaker.
Copy the clipped kick
lowpass the copy, kill the attack by a small amount
set the trigger on the copy to 10-20ms delay from the original.
Add a reverb to the drum program, but keep the first reflection time short, and the decay time fast. Lowpass the return of the reverb, or use the hi-freq atten. (most reverb progs have this)
Run return of reverb to a compressor. (make sure it's not in "peak" mode.)

Hope that helps.

 

[Formant024]

If a kick already has a hat in it i wont place another single hi hat on top of it. If it's a kick then double it and give one an LP filter and the other HP and then find a balance. In most cases I wont even be bothered to use, just find something else you can use if you dont want them hats in your kicks.