Drum Compressiong and Replacement

[Pedro Teixeira]

Hey guys I have a question, when you resample a snare for example, do you compress before the drumagog/apptrigga instance or after? Because I've used the compression before and it feels it just compresses the sample itself not so much the hits, while if I compressed before it should even out the hits so that the sample should trigger more evenly. Apptrigga triggers the sample dynamically, I know drumagog does that too, it's a neat feature, but sometimes you can notice that too much, should I just compress it before them?

 

[izzyrock]

You can control the dynamics percentage in drumagog, you know?

 

[006]

Dynamics???

 

[doclegion]

Its Dynamic tracking in drumagog

 

[Force666]

Compressing before drumagog will actually make it so that it's harder to trigger because you are lowering the peak volumes. You would want to use an expander if anything.

 

[006]

Yeah, usually I don't have to do anything to the trigger track, sometimes if the drummer has weak feet and tries to do some intricate or constant double-bass real fast, I'll use a transient plug to make the pops more defined. Stillwell's Transient Monster or BitterSweetII are free and work really well for this.

~006