So I'm a big fan of early electro house in the 2004-2006 era and whilst I'm well aware of Vengeance sample CDs being heavily used in that period, these sample CDs with snare hits were just rips of old electro house tracks - which included tight, snappy, long compressed snares to begin with. So this got me wondering, what did early tracks use back in the day, to get such a sound? Either its a sample, some processing, or both, but I definitely feel like I'm missing something. Maybe its a compression/limiting/gate question, but I've struggled to turn regular sounding snares into these kinds of ones.
Listen to the snares on these examples:
Alter Ego - Rocker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjPpoq1BUw8
Alter Ego - Rocker (Eric Prydz Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUeCQ2T2ALI
Cirez D (also Eric Prydz) - Punch Drunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp0Eu-lV3vw
Does anyone know what kind of snares are these even called? They all seem to "fit" perfectly as a tight, short, snappy sound and it almost sounds like the original snare was super long to begin with, and the producer trimmed it out. How might someone have done this back in the mid 2000s - perhaps elongating the sustain of a snare, lets say, to make it 1 bar long or something?
I'm aware of drenching snares in reverb to elongate them but this doesn't seem to get the result in the same way.
Making Heavily Compressed Short Snares
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 4 posts since 29 Jan, 2021
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- KVRAF
- 2552 posts since 13 Mar, 2004
I think the main ingredient in those snares is white noise, e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gToC0cK5-4
(as the basic technique, the snares in the example tracks are maybe mixed/layered with other snare samples I'd guess)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gToC0cK5-4
(as the basic technique, the snares in the example tracks are maybe mixed/layered with other snare samples I'd guess)
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- KVRian
- 574 posts since 28 Oct, 2014
I used to be addicted to that snare sound.
For me, it was processed 909 snare, all the way.
EQ in some resonant peaks and dips for a unique character.
Pretty sure I was using these samples, until I bought GoldBaby or something:
http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufactu ... nd/TR-909/
Just find one of the samples at with the longest decay, and it'll sound good in everything, with a bit of EQ and balancing
For me, it was processed 909 snare, all the way.
EQ in some resonant peaks and dips for a unique character.
Pretty sure I was using these samples, until I bought GoldBaby or something:
http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufactu ... nd/TR-909/
Just find one of the samples at with the longest decay, and it'll sound good in everything, with a bit of EQ and balancing
