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Re: Percussion Techniques
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:21 pm
by RmoniK
Limit yourself to simple sounds. 808s and 909s are great. Try using gaters and sidechaining. Spend a lot of time on the patterns, people usually overlook this, they just program a random thing but actually thinking about how it's gonna sound can make sooo much difference. I've recently started doing this, people are complimenting me on my percussion. A percussion track doesn't need to be "original" to be good. It needs to shape the feel of the song. Which brings me to the last and probably most important point: grooves and swing. Use em.
Re: Percussion Techniques
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:33 am
by antipode
RmoniK wrote:Limit yourself to simple sounds. 808s and 909s are great. Try using gaters and sidechaining. Spend a lot of time on the patterns, people usually overlook this, they just program a random thing but actually thinking about how it's gonna sound can make sooo much difference. I've recently started doing this, people are complimenting me on my percussion. A percussion track doesn't need to be "original" to be good. It needs to shape the feel of the song. Which brings me to the last and probably most important point: grooves and swing. Use em.
post ur 808 perc loops m8
Re: Percussion Techniques
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 2:03 am
by twilitez
If you are drowning in hihats and random perc channels, like it often happens to me. Resample them into frequency coherent loops and process them through proper channels. It can sound impressive and 'pro' to have all your drum hits given a special treatment, but in practice it often ends up more annoying than anything else.
tldr; group drums, make loops.
Re: Percussion Techniques
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:32 pm
by Peak0ck
so suppose that i want to go out and bang on stuff.. any suggestions for good/pricerangeable(notawordnotgivingafuck.jpg) stereo digital recorders? something that you can walk around with in your pocket in case the opportunity arises
Re: Percussion Techniques
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:01 am
by travis_baker
simply put a gate on a group of hats, play with the attack and release
Re: Percussion Techniques
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:52 am
by Hircine
travis baker wrote:simply put a gate on a group of hats, play with the attack and release
sidechain to the kick works nicely too
Re: Percussion Techniques
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:52 am
by travis_baker
a quiet detuned shaker slightly before a hat on 1.2.3
Re: Percussion Techniques
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:10 pm
by magnetron_sputtering
Put random shit through slice to midi (if you're using ableton). Play around with the parameters and you can end up with pretty interesting results. Great for completely mangling breaks or loops.
Re: Percussion Techniques
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:12 pm
by hudson
Peak0ck wrote:so suppose that i want to go out and bang on stuff.. any suggestions for good/pricerangeable(notawordnotgivingafuck.jpg) stereo digital recorders? something that you can walk around with in your pocket in case the opportunity arises
I get really nice results with just the mic on my ipod touch. Granted, I'm not really going for a studio quality recording, but I've used sounds I've recorded on it for hats, shakers, snare, ambience, etc. and I'm never dissatisfied with it.