Elektron Musical Instruments

On Aug 22, 2004, at 6:04 AM, tahvenaine2002 wrote:

>  2. For the thickening of snares I use technique called doubleing. I
>  create a small delay (few ms really) and pan the delays a little. This
>  makes snare a little more thick and also a stereo. It sounds better
>  this way. But not thick enough.

I've never tried this.  but my MD snare tip is to copy the track trigs 
to another track
and then change that track's machine to a tom sound. then turn it down 
very low
with a medium amount of decay.  you shouldn't be able to tell that it's 
a tom sound,
but it should thicken up your snare.  if you take a real physical snare 
drum and
turn the snares off, it sounds like a high-pitched tom; you can hear 
the body of the
drum. once the snares are on, they create a noise effect and blend with 
this body
sound; that's what makes a real drum sound thick/full. so when your MD 
snare
has too much noise and not enough body, adding this tom sound on another
track should do the trick.  you just need to be careful to balance the 
levels right
so that it doesn't sound like a tom but like they are the same 
instrument.

you can also use the multiple trigging option for this, but I don't 
since I usually
have some quiet snare "ghost" notes that I don't want to add this sound 
to.

> Am I right, how do people use the compressors and to
>  be exact: what is it that you are trying to do with the compressors
>  (is it anything more than a 'lets rock it!'-attitude?)?

I use the compressor and the EQ just to make my beats a bit more 
punchy.  the EQ is
less necessary than the compressor, since you can do that on individual 
tracks
(less drastically though; but it's usually enough).  but if you have 
the compressor
set up right and then A/B that with the uncompressed mix, you'll 
definitely hear a
difference.

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