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[FULLMETALSPEEDO]

This may be a stupid question but is there any way to make acoustic drum loops sound better. Everything I have tried makes the snare really loud and the kicks dormant. Just wondering if there was anything I could do to rectify this. I want the kicks to be more in the fore-front. Or maybe just scrap the pre-recorded loops all together.

I don't have acces to an actual drummer to record my own drums.

 

[STINNETT]

EQ? It kinda depends on what is wrong with it to begin with.

I don't know....The idea of drum loops makes cringe anyway.

 

[chadsxe]

I don't have acces to an actual drummer to record my own drums.

Drum-kit from hell....End of story....

 

[deathtotaliban]

Try eqing the frequencies for bass and snare. Usually just raising it at around 3k can get fairly good results. Also search the forum for frequency charts those will help as well.

Jordan

 

[DougDoppler]

Funny you should mention this, but yesterday I was working on a short 30 soundtrack for an animation clip a buddy of mine is submitting to Converse. I grabbed a group of power punk loops, and the "chorus" loop had a snare drum that was just a bugger in the mix. I actually though, these guys are totally tripping, and I am sure someone at the session most have said the bloody snare drum is too loud. It dominates the mix. I limited the crap out of it and that helped...

Years ago I had a similar problem in fixing a kick drum in the studio. What I ended up doing was creating duplicate tracks and EQing them totally differently. You might actually need three tracks to do this for the loop. For your kick isolate the frequencies it's on on one track as best you can. For the shut up the snare track, pull as much snare as you can. Try using the undoctored version with and without EQ to make the whole thing work as you create your drum kit...

 

[FULLMETALSPEEDO]

I limited the crap out of it and that helped...

Years ago I had a similar problem in fixing a kick drum in the studio. What I ended up doing was creating duplicate tracks and EQing them totally differently. You might actually need three tracks to do this for the loop. For your kick isolate the frequencies it's on on one track as best you can. For the shut up the snare track, pull as much snare as you can. Try using the undoctored version with and without EQ to make the whole thing work as you create your drum kit...

What would be a good plug in or program for limiting said frequencies. (keep in mind low budget)

 

[deathtotaliban]

What program are u running for recording, if its anything like Cubase, Nuendo, or Cakewalk it most likely came with a decent limiter in the DirectX or VST plug-ins pack. If not then there are some free ones online, search google for a free limiter and im sure ull find somethin.

Jordan

 

[FULLMETALSPEEDO]

What program are u running for recording, if its anything like Cubase, Nuendo, or Cakewalk it most likely came with a decent limiter in the DirectX or VST plug-ins pack. If not then there are some free ones online, search google for a free limiter and im sure ull find somethin.

Jordan

I'm using Guitar Tracks Pro 3 from Cakewalk