catching the air....

...the thing with drums is that it's the space between the sounds that makes you bounce .... but sampling off old dusty crackly shitty records means the air between my drums is always noisy...

obviously it can be eq'd filtered timestretched layered and enveloped
but does anyone have any other good techniques for keeping the air between the hits.
peace

42blues* wrote:.. sampling off old dusty crackly **** records means the air between my drums is always noisy...

Yeah, but the noisy air is what gives beats that raw texture. I want that sh!t. That's the main reason I sample from vinyl in the first place.

You could always sample from CDs or buy sample CDs if you want clean drums.

i aint goin out like no pussy.......
i love the hiss as well and i'm strictly vinyl no cd's mp3's etc.
but its just when i'm trying to solo a hi hat and all i get is a muddy hiss its pretty annoying.
i know the techniques but just wonderin if anyone had any filtering, eqing tips for this
peace

Hey bro, I ain't callin anybody a puss...it's just usually I'm looking to get that crust.
BUT, when I'm not looking for that, like if I want a clean hihat, I have no problem sampling from CD. I don't like to put rules on my own music making. I know there are a lot of guys who ONLY sample from original pressing vinyl, and I respect what their aim is.....and I use mostly original vinyl, but if I want a sample that's clean and hi-fi, you gotta take it off CD, or a module or something, and I have no problem with that.

As far as filtering the noise out, you can do it with kicks, and a little bit with snares, but it's hard with hi-hats because the frequency of the hats and the noise are roughly the same. Try setting the Decay of your noisy hats at about 12-15, so the noise fades out smoothly - sometimes it will make the noise just sound like reverb.

its just the art of diggen main...sometimes you get the golden sound...sometimes ya dont

Take the samples into the computer ( if you have one) and select the gaps in between the drum hits and use the gain function to reduce the volume so you can hear it.

Or....Use a noise gate plugin and set it so that the gate is really tight and you dont hear the noise.

If your using the individual drum hits and not a loop, just trim the hits down so that you have no 'air'.

zack

thanx for the advice on gating the noise ... gonna try that one.
also itchyvinyl... sorry man I wasnt taking offense or nothing i was just just typing spiel.
peace to you all