Reason drums

[Trumpspade]

This is kind of a wacked question, but.............
How are reason user doing their drums? That is what most of my beats are lacking, that kick......I can get a basic 4 bar, but I want to add that dirty south drum sound. (Like Bonecrushers "Never scared") or MAnny fresh like stuff.

In a nutshell "My drums suck!.........I have a good of drum kits, just not sure how to make it do what it do!

 

[mentalattica]

Have you tried Redrums Flam?

 

[Trumpspade]

Have you tried Redrums Flam?

Nah, never heard of redrum flam.....What is it a soundkit? How do I get it?

 

[mentalattica]

No it's not a kit. It's a feature, check the Redrum section in the Reason Manual.

 

[Fieva]

I use Redrum with all my drums. I know some people choose the NN-XT but I like Redrum. You have to play with the efx in redrum and especially the velocity. It helps your kicks come out more in front. Throw in some delay and reverb here and there and it helps bring your drums out.

 

[ssscientist]

I never use the Redrum without it being hooked into a Scream 4 distortion unit. And sometimes more than one --- I take the main stereo outout into one, the snare into another and the kick into another.

Then after I've adjusted the parameters on the Scream 4 it's time to strap an RV7000 reverb over the stereo field even if it's just for a tiny bit of ambience.

Adding a little bit of swing helps too --- they call it 'pattern shuffle' and you find the knob for it to the right of the transport bar.


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[jb4play]

I use a trigger finger to control redrum. I don't quantatize. Run it into the scream sometimes, mainly to dirty stuff up. RV7000 reverb on snares, hats, etc... Delay on one hits to give em a "tail". Phaser on shit at times... A lot of the best results come from mistakes actually though... Just play around with it and you'll figure it out!

 

[Trumpspade]

I use a trigger finger to control redrum. I don't quantatize. Run it into the scream sometimes, mainly to dirty stuff up. RV7000 reverb on snares, hats, etc... Delay on one hits to give em a "tail". Phaser on shit at times... A lot of the best results come from mistakes actually though... Just play around with it and you'll figure it out!

Good Look!

 

[Trumpspade]

No it's not a kit. It's a feature, check the Redrum section in the Reason Manual.

Very good look!

Never noticed it, I don't play with reason that much. Starting to do more since I heard alot of things that came from it. I had Reason from jump street, and have been upgrading ever since. Just never really sat down and dig into it, but I will...............
But I do like that Flam, very unique feature!

 

[Fieva]

I use a trigger finger to control redrum. I don't quantatize. Run it into the scream sometimes, mainly to dirty stuff up. RV7000 reverb on snares, hats, etc... Delay on one hits to give em a "tail". Phaser on shit at times... A lot of the best results come from mistakes actually though... Just play around with it and you'll figure it out!

I quantize here and there, depends on the track. I flavor it up a lot so unless you're really checking, you're not noticing I'm doing it. Scream is good if you want a little bit of a dirty sound. I don't think I have a track that I haven't used reverb or delay on. But you right, you gotta play with it to find the best results.

 

[jb4play]

4 sho, I only quantatize at times. Coming from using the mpc for sooooo long, I'm used to drums not being perfect and when I hit reason I had to adjust. When I figured out the best way to give things an authentic swing is to nudge here and there, maybe a slight quantatize (no more than 25% or 50%) here and there really started to open things up. Also, using different amounts on different instruments/drums really helps things mesh well together swing wise... but that only happens when you play around, no set rules. What I love to do is listening to old records, for drums, pay attention to the drummer, notice how his swing is, how the kick and snare interact, how the hi hat goes on and off beat, try to mimic that with your drums. That'll be $4.99, no checks please!