Haha well I think for the snare the credit goes to Mr Slate. I used this as an opportunity to try out some of his kick and snare samples. The Snare is 'Snare 1 Z1' with a decent amount of its Z4 ambient sample mixed in... given that this is a metal track and not a rock one, I thought the decay time needed increasing, so I also sent the snare to Freverb2 to extend the 'pshhhhh' time. On the whole I think it's a lot more ambiance than I'd ever use on a snare otherwise, but it seems to have come up okay all the same. The Z4 is great! It goes hand in hand with plug-in verbs to really pop out of the mix. The snare was replaced 100% (mainly coz I was testing out the samples on the mix, so I did it all real quick). I ran it through one instance of Waves SSL Channel boosting about 3dB on an 8K high shelf, and about 5db at 6kHz with a bell EQ. I also added +12dB with the low shelf, at 80dB.... this could be where all my wasted low-end energy is going, hahah... but I can't help it really, I don't seem to like thin snares. Oh also I think I'm taking off about 3dB with the SSL Channel compressor section.. this along with whatever comp Steven used on the sample itself is responsible for the 'snap'.
