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Guys my kick sounds too loud compared to my snare. How do I make my snare sound like it's been turned up? (obviously without actually turning it up)

SunkLo wrote:Guys my kick sounds too loud compared to my snare. How do I make my snare sound like it's been turned up? (obviously without actually turning it up)

compress it mao8, come on, do you even dubstap?

I haerd that if you throw on a compressor with 10:1 ratio, max threshold, fast attack, fast release, and tons of makeup gain, your drums sound like skrillex's drums afterwards.

Okay but seriously, panning drums is fine. The song you're talking about probably had the floor tom panned left, toms off-center, hat to the right, and stereo overheads. Every drum on a kit isn't stacked right in the middle, so why mix them like they are? I pan my drums all the time in my electronic stuff, especially hats and percussion (sometimes snare if it's a slower tune), there's nothing wrong with it, it's it's just another way to shape the sound of a track.

I am pretty sure that they double tracked his drums so that they could pan/process it differently to give it that sense of being in another room.

And yes, it does sound like they are panned, but most likely it's another kit altogether. The sounds aren't exactly the same and I thought it was really weird when I first listened to that track...like 5 years ago.

just be creative with what you have man. pan a sample to the left but then pan its reverb to the right, and switch it up.... make a drum rack with 7 of the same sample in it and pan them across a spectrum from way right to way left with one in the very middle then you can apply individual effects/tweak it with reverbs, eqs so it sounds balanced to your ears... pan a hi hat to the left and a clap to the right, do whatever you want there's no rules

Ok i'm going to post a vid for a tutorial on binaural panning.The video is for logic pro 8 but there must be plugins in other daws that do the same thing or 3rd party plugs that have the same effect on audio.




There is so much more you can do with this type of panning.I was playing with this technique the other day,you can set it up so it sounds like a doppler effect too which when listening to on cans and set to the spherical setting makes the panned audio sound like it moves from your one ear to across your forehead then into the other ear.
It is really something you should all look into,i use it on percs mainly as it adds loads of movement to the drums.
Sory for the sporadic post,hard days graft has left me fooking brain dead.


Edit=about 140 into the video i think!

This may qualify as unrelated, but know what I've been doing lately? Creating a return track, throwing on/adjusting Live's filter delay to make a big stereo spread, and then sending juuuust a bit to the snare. Adjust to taste, and it can be pretty righteous.




...thank you for your time...