eq during sampling drum sounds?

ok, well i know great drum tracks start with great drum sounds, so I'm curious how to process each individual hit before i get assigned to pads. I usually sample snares, then sample again by filtering out both the mids and lows, then filter only the mids, and layer the three to get a nice snap from the snares. (q-tip interview gave me the idea) So now my problem is kick drums, I know boosting the lows a bit give it more boom, but how do i keep the crispness and add the boom element. Also, hihats are kinda hard to sample, I probably have a hundred hats, but I don't know where to cut or boost frequencies to get them to sound bright and jumpy on tracks, but i don't always want the hats to be loud. Any tips? I sample through a cheap bellari mic pre to add a touch of warmth to all, but many of my sounds still sound flat. I aim for drum sounds similar to E. Sermon and Dre, rather than heads that make the more laid back type sounding stuff like Atmosphere.

There is no single solution. In fact, the variations give us all of the flavors of sounds we have. But, I have a MPC3000 and I try to use an exciter or just add some higher freq eq to taste to boost that end of the spectrum. Since, I can filter it down some later, it can be useful.

Some mixers and preamps are lame too and can alter your sound. Use the cleanest mixer you can afford. If you can afford it, get an outboard eq. If not pay close attention to the difference between what you hear and what you want.

If you have a computer and some sound editing software, you can do a lot of that work in the computer and prepare the sounds much easier.

Happy sampling.

homershines

i have usually boosted the kick at around 200-500 Hz with nice
results, depends on the original sound though.
i don't know about y'all but i prefer EQing after the track is done
and is ready to be recorded onto the multitracker because a sample
might sound nice EQ'd in isolation but with all the other ones playing
along it it might not be so good so I usually send the signals from
the 8 outs to my mixer and EQ (plus effect, the mpc reverbs
and delays suck) them there and mix down to two tracks.