Snare verb ANNOYANCE

[NSGUITAR]

I don't typically use reverb on snare.. I usually use a room mic and create more of a room sound, but I've had a few projects that require verb on the tom and snare buss.


When I use this, I'll either have an individual track that has 100% wet reverb on it..

Now for some reason, when using REALY snare, every once in while I get a really annoying tinny sound almost metallic, so the first thing I thought of doing was putting a LP filter on to suck some of the high end out of it.. But that didn't work.. I feel like I've tried everything.. Could it possibly be the inconsitent hits that the drummer is pushing on the snare? Idk, I'll give an example:

You can year it in here, just listen very carefully:

 

[pikachu69]

I hear what you mean.
What verb are you using? I does not sound like a convolution reverb to me so if its not I would say try either a convolution verb or Lexicon Vintage plate verb (preferred) You can low pass as low as 1500Hz and high pass as high as 250Hz without drama.

 

[KBMoser]

i hear something ugly in the original snare track, around 1.5 hz - 1.6 hz. it only seems to stick out on the hard hits, which makes it harder to hear on those softer hits but i think its working in favor of the overall sound, makes it sound organic. dropping that range down in volume will kill it on the snare and the verb, or you could just kill it on the verb. also look into cutting octaves of that note. like i cant pintpoint the fequency exactly but half of 1.5 to 1.6 k is 750 hz to 800 hz, but again its around there, maybe closer to 700 or closer to 900. my guess.

 

[KBMoser]

going back to that, i think its just around 780 hz.

 

[shredder10]

haha as usual, i'm loving this.

 

[NSGUITAR]

haha as usual, i'm loving this.

Loving my retardedness?

 

[NSGUITAR]

Thanks for your help guys. I ended up with this. Totally fixed the problem:




I ended up sending the snare signal to a new track with Drumagog 5 loaded and triggered a superior snare, and only used the room mics from the mixer! haha First time for everything.

 

[Nikolas Quemtri]

I ended up sending the snare signal to a new track with Drumagog 5 loaded and triggered a superior snare, and only used the room mics from the mixer! haha First time for everything.

Often do the similar thing putting a trigger on parallel channel with SSD's z4 or z5 group sample running on it.

If you want to achieve an artificial room sound (using just a reverb on send), I recommend you to put a transient shaper/enveloper (or something else) before a bandpass filtering. Then turn down almost all the attack and increase the release. It helps to avoid some nasty overtones too.

 

[shredder10]

Loving my retardedness?

Oh why u so mean? :3!
Your mixes man, thumbs up!

 

[NSGUITAR]

Oh why u so mean? :3!
Your mixes man, thumbs up!

Oh hahahah! Thanks man :b

I realllly really appreciate your kind words man!