sound designers! 80s snare?

tavravlavish · Post by **tavravlavish** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:02 am

should be pretty simple but I'm very good at sound design, any tips on getting that 80s snare sound without sampling?

Echoi · Post by **Echoi** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:11 am

Synthing it, thats what they used to do 80% of the time

Edit, i know you're looking for specific tips, but if you simply just synth a snare it should have quite an 80's retro type sound to it quite easily

tavravlavish · Post by **tavravlavish** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:23 am

Yeah that is what I'm trying to figure out, how do I synth it. It seems like it couldn't be too hard I just haven't tried to synthesized drums before.

Echoi · Post by **Echoi** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:32 am

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar02/a ... ts0302.asp

AxL · Post by **AxL** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:34 am

try to use real snare sample, compress it and add big gated classics reverbs like lexicon and alesis midiverb

2mb1o · Post by **2mb1o** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:35 am

gated reverb : use & abuse !

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:39 am

audio example
are we talking like phil collins or like depeche mode

Brisance · Post by **Brisance** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:02 pm

to synth a snare you use white noise with amplitude and filter envelopes.

glottis5 · Post by **glottis5** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:11 pm

take a linndrum/dmx/whatever snare

add a lot of cheap, tacky reverb and then gate it

tavravlavish · Post by **tavravlavish** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 8:56 pm

thanks urybody

deadly habit wrote:audio example
are we talking like phil collins or like depeche mode

probably more like depeche mode, synth pop snares.

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:02 pm

my fave 80s snare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGDmBLAPikU
hell bash away they started before i was born, but duran duran are great

Depone · Post by **Depone** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:16 pm

Linn Drum snare + Tons of verb

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:58 pm

Ironically, I just spent the weekend half-assedly researching the famous Prince snare/sidestick sound (sounds like a knock & used in '1999' and 'When Doves Cry,' among others)...

And while the simple explanation of the sound turns out to be "Linn LM-1 sidestick detuned (using on-board tuning on that particular drum machine, not resampled)" - I'm trying all kinds of things to achieve the same woodiness of the sound - gating, exciting/compressing, all kinds of shit - and it's only vaguely suggestive of the actual sound that Prince got.

Anyone ever figured out this sound's signal processing path more fully?

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:46 am

crapthings · Post by **crapthings** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:31 am

sample with synth mix with bus send verb and compression

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