need some eq tips on reducing drums in samples

got some samples that sound great rearranged in a particular order. the prob is that the original sample has very strong drums. not a prob where a snare in the sample hits a snare in my drum pattern, but the particular sequence ive made, the snare in the sample (its a guitar sample from a old soul song) falls where my kick in my drum pattern is. what im trying to do is eq/filter sample to reduce the snare as much as pos so that the guitar in the sample can b heard over the snare (if that makes sense) so that when i put the sequence with my own drum pattern, my kick isnt overshadowed by the snare in the guitar sample (hope this makes snese). so far ive cut the bass freq in the guitar sample so that the kick in my drum set can b more definitive.

just wondering (on a real general note here) which freq r usually good to cut/boost to try and minimise a typical heavy snare or if any particular effects /settings could b useful. i know i cant fully cut the snare from the sample, but any tips on reducing the snare and bringing out the guitar would b much appeciated.

obviously it would b best to hear the particular sample, but im just looking for just general speculative tips here. cheers

It´s hard to get rid of drums, but a trick to find the freq where the snare hits the hardest is to start out backwards. (Edit: This is appliable to all kinds eq:ing, backwards is the way to go if you want clarity)
I don´t know if you are working on a hardware mixer or software, but it´s basically the same.

- Lower the master output so you won´t damage ears/speakers/headphones.

- Play the sample and gain up the parametric eq, that is boost - not cut, 6 - 10 dB.

- Start to sweep slowly the with the frequency control until the snare cuts through ridiculously hard.

- Stop and if your eq is equipped with a Q-control (width of the filter) start search with that untill you narrow down the most prominent attack. You might have to slightly adjust the freq control during this to better pin point the attack.

- When it´s as isolated as it gets, reverse the eq gain and cut until you get as much out as possible without sounding weird.

- Lastly, hope you don´t lose to much of the guitars in the process.

hehe using mpc eq. dang. thats clearly what i shld b doing. do u think it would b ok to slice sample in mpc, then eq each slice in soundforge and re-save each slice and load them back into the mpc. cant see how this could b problem, and this would allow me to do individual eq settings for each slice.

I wouldn´t know about eq:ing in Soundforge, it´ll probably work, I´m a hardware guy working on a mixer. But hopefully Soundforge has a interface has an interface allowing faster editing than the mpc1000.

But look out when you start tweaking the slices, making each one sound super. You may mash them together again and discover that some of them sounds too thumpy/trebly or whatever, it´s easy to loose ones way if one don´t go back and listen to the whole picture once in while.

sound forge parametric eq can do this also.