How do you work around the drums of a sample? (new to beat-making)
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I don't know if this is the 100% answer but: filters
Filter out the kicks and/or bass then add your own. Or piece together tiny pieces of sound until you have a melody. It works both ways you can filter out the bass and knocks and use the melody or filter out the melody and just keep the bass and knocks but layer them to enhance them.
you just gotta play with the equalizer until you hear less of the drums. this will affect the rest of the sample sound though. there are probably plugins that do this too.
another trick i used to do back in the days is that sometimes (depending on how the original sound was recorded, the drums were more panned to one side or the other. so i would use Cool Edit Pro to delete the side with louder drums, copy the remaining side to the other side and then use equalizer to filter. again, this depends on how the original was recorded. whenever you notice both sides aren't the same, always check out what both sides sound like. you never know what you'll find. it might be drums, it might be lower vocals, etc...
another trick i used to do back in the days is that sometimes (depending on how the original sound was recorded, the drums were more panned to one side or the other. so i would use Cool Edit Pro to delete the side with louder drums, copy the remaining side to the other side and then use equalizer to filter. again, this depends on how the original was recorded. whenever you notice both sides aren't the same, always check out what both sides sound like. you never know what you'll find. it might be drums, it might be lower vocals, etc...
SymbolicOne09
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Filtering and equing some times i have 2 samples and one is equed diffrently then the other.... sometimes tho you just cant get it how you want tho....
Flying lotus was talking about a technique he used where he used side chain compression mimicking the drum pattern of the sample so that the drims would pump in and out and you have more leeway for your own drums to overshadow the drums in the sample but not the sample itself
Flying lotus was talking about a technique he used where he used side chain compression mimicking the drum pattern of the sample so that the drims would pump in and out and you have more leeway for your own drums to overshadow the drums in the sample but not the sample itself
i typically opt not to use samples that have drums unless i intend to have them play a role in the beat.
i have a good handful of beats that have hi hats and other percussion in the sample, so i can scale back or completely skip them when i do drums...
i have a good handful of beats that have hi hats and other percussion in the sample, so i can scale back or completely skip them when i do drums...