5th Sequence
Hip Hop Head, Certified
you all are right. It's a combination of everything. sometimes it's the combination of selective EQ for one sample, or all layered samples, compression, reverb, parallel compression, whatever it takes. No need to over due things if the situation doesn't call for it, but it's good to know how to use all the techniques effectively so you can do exactly what's needed when the time comes.
I might use multiple snares to get one perfect layered snare sound by, for example, bumping up the high end of one to accent the brush and vinyle crackle, use upward compression on another for some extreme punch on the attack, EQ the low out of another one that has texture on it, and add reverb to only one of the multiple snares.
The control you can get from having multiple sound sources and knowing how to knife edit your sounds to exactly how you want is pretty cool stuff.
I might use multiple snares to get one perfect layered snare sound by, for example, bumping up the high end of one to accent the brush and vinyle crackle, use upward compression on another for some extreme punch on the attack, EQ the low out of another one that has texture on it, and add reverb to only one of the multiple snares.
The control you can get from having multiple sound sources and knowing how to knife edit your sounds to exactly how you want is pretty cool stuff.