Jaffa Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 What plugins do you use as standard for drum track? I mean anything. be it compression limiting or fx. At the moment im using Classic compressor and subtle dashes of reverb , i tend to find that vintage warmer just muddies the hits, but this could be due to the fact i havent got a clue what does what and im twiddling levels at randomn. Any help? Just want my drums to bite more, any recommendations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred McGriff Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 your drums already bite pretty hard :grin: i always use wavehammer in soundforge, whatever the default setting is. i'm no help, i only just started even thinking about compression a year ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 thanks fred, my self esteem went up marginally;-) yeah wavehammer, i'll give that another blast on the default setting, cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest noradrenalin Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 i use a very subtle distortion a lot of the time. sometimes i use a subtle (or not subtle at all... i guess it depends on my mood) plate reverb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acid1 Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 yeah take the drums add distortion then take the drums dry mix the volumes about 80% dry 20% distortion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 nice, will try, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foresense Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Bit reduction on a send effect works wonders for adding bite. Don't use reverb, that makes it more smooth instead of adding bite. Also think about what you have surrounding the drums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba69 Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Yeah, but reverb can sound nice at times. Like Luke Vibert's drums. I found this free plug that I have really been digging lately. http://www.digitalfishphones.com/binaries/...ion_v1.2_PC.zip Its a signal shape modifier/enhancer. I've used these compressors forever but just lately have I tried this plug out. Can get some nice dynamic snappy poppy sounds out of any rythemic sygnal. Bad spelling? I thouught so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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