Dirty drums sound

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I was wandering if anyone has any ideas on how to get that dirty drum sound on your drums when creatinf drum loops.....my example would be like maybe some of the old Cypress Hill beats or even the old House of Pain beats use these dirty type loops and I know a lot of the time they are just drum loops taken off vinyl that are from old jazz albums or funk type albums like james Brown and people like that but if there is a way to get this type of sound on my drums I would like to know..........any help i would appreciate......p e a c e
 
I was on another bulletin board... Futureproducers.com... and they suggested that you resample your drums in 8bits instead of 16bits like most audio is in today. That would give them a little bit crunchier sound, make them sound dirtier.

You can do this in alot of Sound editing programs... like Cool Edit, or you could get a plugin like +degrader, or BJ Lofi... that's for you computer... I don't know if you use an MPC or some sampler, I wouldn't know how to do it in those.

Hope this helps.
 
Thanks

I ve got the Izotope plug and it s ok but it seems to fake to me....and I ve used a degrader plug and another plug but they just seem to make it sound fake and not raw...imma try the resampling and also try and find that BJ plug so I ll post back with the results........thanks for the input........p e a c e
 
Grungeliser is another good vinyl-emulation plugin, I use that way more than the isotope one, the scratches and noise on the isotope vinyl plug are terrible... not cool terrible just ear-piercing-make-you-wanna-gnaw-off-your-own-arm terrible.

Grungeliser has got a good distortion knob, and a nice chunky eq tweek with lots of resonance, i think it comes with cubase.

Some more tips on getting that crunchy sound (i am a fan of those style beats, waaay moreso than this nu-skool ultra-clean stuff) is add a bit of distortion.

Doing the 8-bit thing is good too, tho often you will get tons of hiss with that, either take that out later, or try 12-bit intead, good crunchyness, less hiss. Also this will make some kicks and snares sound like crap, if that's so, leave those in 16 bit and bring everything else back to 8 or 12 bit.

Also, try some mono reverb over the snare, not too long, and maybe a bit on the hats (or pitch shift a tamborine waaaay down) i find for those cypress hill styles some low pitch shifted hats and tamborine/other toppy percussion works well.

and sometimes i just sample a crunchy loop, roll off the low end, EQ the mids and highs a bit, and have it play behind the loop ive sequenced.

Hope that helps!

~ToR

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ToR said:
the scratches and noise on the isotope vinyl plug are terrible... not cool terrible just ear-piercing-make-you-wanna-gnaw-off-your-own-arm terrible.

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I liked that, I had to use this quote as my signature on http://www.okayplayer.com

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peace.
 
baniak said:
I was on another bulletin board... Futureproducers.com...
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that's a totally kiss ass place.. one big happy, greasy family of back patters and brown nosers.. but yes, converting to 8 bit and making some dirty filtering in cooledit can do the trick... it's also alot about using more than one of each drum sound... one highhat sound will almost never be enough to get a dirty sound, you need them to interfere with eachother..
 
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