Advice: How do you make snare samples less digital, more real?

[Branden Giraudy]

What methods do you guys use other than changing the velocity of the hits (cause that doesn't work for me) to make snare sample hits more realistic?

 

[DanLights]

Multisamples help, if you have

 

[Emdprodukt]

^ yup. velocity and drawing by hand is the way to get more realistic results.

 

[Wackner]

Gain some 1-5 db down, and mayby pitch shift down 20-30 cents down

 

[pipaguapique]

i love what the 1176 does on sampled kicks...it never hits the needle the same every time, so it gives you a natural compression, and also, send your drums to a bus with tape saturation.

 

[MarcM]

automation/differently velocity hits + Tape Head by Massey Plugins