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Make Beats
- Beats Are Only As Good As Your Drum Sounds
by Producer and Engineer Jazdout for GNX Music
Your Beats Are Only As Good As Your Drum Sounds !
No matter what kind of beats your making your going
to need some hard hitting in your face drum sounds.
There are a lot of ways to beef up your drum sounds especially when
your in a million dollar studio paying some engineer a hundred dollars
an hour to mix your track. Until that day you’ll need to come
up with some cheaper and more creative solutions to your problem.
Building your own custom drum kits.
Every producer has their own signature drum sound.
This signature sound comes from many hours of sound searching and
programming. Building your own library of sounds, and samples,
drum sounds or otherwise is essential. You can get your
sounds from any place, records, CDs, sample libraries or even record
your own with microphones and real drums. Keep in mind that the
source of your drum sounds will color their sound. When you sample
a drum sound from a CD it will sound crisp and pretty clean.
Drum samples from records will usually
sound about the same as the record looks. If the record looks all
scratched up and grungy, you can be sure that’s how any thing
you pull of the record will sound.
Depending on the format of your sampler system you may want to sample
your sounds directly into your sampler or record
them into a computer to edit first. Both the Korg Triton and Akai
MPC 2000 can read pc .wav files. Editing and tweaking your drum
sounds on a seventeen inch monitor is much easier then on a small
two color LED screen. If you record your samples into the computer
you can also take advantage of the endless amounts of fx processing,
eq and compression. I strongly suggest that you try Cool Edit by
Syntrillium systems. (Now called Adobe Audiotion)
After you have equalized some bass into your kick drums
, over compressed you snare drums and ran your
hi hats through a high pass filter plugin in the computer. Map your
kit out. Mapping out your samples allows you to play them or use
then in a song as you would any other instrument. Mapping out samples
on a Akai MPC or another drum machine
based sampler is slightly different then mapping
samples on a keyboard. The manual for your sampler is the best play
to look about more information on this. In many samplers you can
also tweak your sounds a great deal in this stage. The Akai
MPC series samplers allow you to place high and low pass
filters on each individual sample. The most important thing however
is to program your kits in a similar way. By doing this it will
be easier to try out different sounds with your sequence later.
This will also allow you to work a lot faster. Its easier to find
your sounds if you always put them in the same place. ( Note : This
works with car keys and wallets also )
Whether your
using an AKAI MPC series drum machine
and sampler, an old EMU sampler, or the latest greatest sampling
workstation build a massive library of your own sounds
for it. Floppy disks are cheap and drum sounds
do not take up that much space at all.
In the meantime
you can buy Step Ya Game Up Vol.
1 which has 500 drum sounds cut, cleaned and ready to go. Each
Cd-rom contains all 500 indusrty ready drum samples in Apple Loops
(Aiff), Battery, EXS, Soundfont and Wav format. The EXS, Battery
and Soundversion are already ampped out and ready to make hitz.
This CD is also much cheaper then most of the other CD-Roms and
Kits availble on the net.
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