Drum Loops.....

I have never used a drum loop.......! What do you guys do when your
are using drum loops...? Do you chop it up and replay it the exact way
with kicks and snares on different tracks or do you just put the whole
drum loop on one track and build with other intstruments on separate tracks as you make your song.....!

Speaking for myself you could either chop up a drum break (loop) into pieces and then put it back together quantized so it's more accurate and locked in, then either try to fatten it dolo or layer it with harder drum sounds, like one shots or whatever they call it.

Sometimes it's cool to just make a kit of 'one shots' out of a drum break for a more grimy in-your-face texture IMO. Depends on the track. It's also cool to chop up breaks with music and drums into pieces to make them more accurate for sequencing.

Let the 50 part multidirectional opinion piece wars begin .....

just experiment a bit. everybody should have time to experiment.

But what about as far as getting it to set right in the mix....I mean
eq and mastering down.....Do you guys chop it up and reconstuct it
on different tracks or just eq and mix it all on one track....?

i've done both. i usually just use one shots, but i've used breaks before. i also used breaks under my one shots. so ill build my own drum track and throw a break in the background. worked wonders..

krush groove wrote:What do you guys do when your
are using drum loops...?

The first thing I do is EQ the drum loop. I don't EQ the entire drum loop at the same time because every sound in the loop has a different frequency. You need a program that let's you EQ each individual sound of the drum loop. A 10-20 band paragraphic EQ will do the job. The more bands you have, the easier it will be to EQ all the frequencies in the loop.

I like to chop a drum break into one shots, and make my own drum patterns. plus it makes it alot easier when compressing, eqing, or whatever it is you want to do to each individual drum part.

Thanks fellas.....!

The Beat Conductor wrote:

krush groove wrote:What do you guys do when your
are using drum loops...?

The first thing I do is EQ the drum loop. I don't EQ the entire drum loop at the same time because every sound in the loop has a different frequency. You need a program that let's you EQ each individual sound of the drum loop. A 10-20 band paragraphic EQ will do the job. The more bands you have, the easier it will be to EQ all the frequencies in the loop.

Exactly.. but what I do before this is proccess the whole drum loop by runing it through a compressor and some mild eq to bring the life back to the sample to make it more full, because alot of drum loops or samples in general dont sound as tits as we would like because of the media source (records). And also make sure you remove the DC offset. In a digital studio or mastering environment, nothing is more important than maintaining the utmost audio quality throughout the mix. One of the common problems that is encountered, is referred to as 'DC Offset', DC offset occurs when hardware, such as a soundcard adds DC current to a recorded audio signal. This current results in a recorded waveform that is not centred around the baseline. It is important that you remove any DC Offset in your recordings, most Sample Editors have Auto Detect DC Offset, this is all you need to use. No need for power conditioners. There was a DJ Quick interview where he said his sound is cleaner because of studio power and that this gave him an edge on all bedroom producers, I guese he thought nobody knew about DC Offset.

simcity wrote:just experiment a bit. everybody should have time to experiment.

Underated and TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!