JDOD
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Yes, I'm programming fake drums and I know all the drum purists hate it - hey, even I hate it! But I need to make the best of what I have.
This is a decent example of my usual drumming:
https://soundcloud.com/brother-number-one/test-milk
My general technique is this:
"My DAW generally has a separate track for part of the drum kit. The core of the kit - bass, snare and hi-hat- will generally have two or even three lines each. I then pan every track as if I was sitting behind the kit, generally with the small crash 30% left and the ride 30% right, everything else panned between.
I have a collection of single hits of varying velocities for every drum and I individually place each hit on its track in the DAW. The reason that the core of the kit has 2 or 3 lines each is so that I can allow them to overlap eachother by about 1/2 a beat so you don't get that machinegun effect."
The drums don't sound that fake but they do sound, thin, weak and badly recorded. Is there anything I can do in REAPER to beef them up and make them heavier? Any help you can give me, even with regard to the mixing of the different tracks would help.
Drums sound pretty good in places in this one but then the hi hats in the the verse sound hideous:
https://soundcloud.com/brother-number-one/pd-2015
But then the rides in the chorus sound alright.
This is a decent example of my usual drumming:
https://soundcloud.com/brother-number-one/test-milk
My general technique is this:
"My DAW generally has a separate track for part of the drum kit. The core of the kit - bass, snare and hi-hat- will generally have two or even three lines each. I then pan every track as if I was sitting behind the kit, generally with the small crash 30% left and the ride 30% right, everything else panned between.
I have a collection of single hits of varying velocities for every drum and I individually place each hit on its track in the DAW. The reason that the core of the kit has 2 or 3 lines each is so that I can allow them to overlap eachother by about 1/2 a beat so you don't get that machinegun effect."
The drums don't sound that fake but they do sound, thin, weak and badly recorded. Is there anything I can do in REAPER to beef them up and make them heavier? Any help you can give me, even with regard to the mixing of the different tracks would help.
Drums sound pretty good in places in this one but then the hi hats in the the verse sound hideous:
https://soundcloud.com/brother-number-one/pd-2015
But then the rides in the chorus sound alright.