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i usually listen to a lot of minimal music and most of the percussion in my tunes are just clicks and short noises but i've recently started listening to a lot of current value, limewax, etc. anyway the thing i love about their productions are the drum sounds they use.

now for kick drums i'm pretty happy with what i'm already doing. using drum samples from analog drum machines. but for the snares i cannot get anything even close to the heavyness that those guys are producing.
what i'm currently doing is grabbing a heavy sounding snare. layering it with a sort of metallic synth sound and maybe a pitched up short bass stab. blah blah blah. nothing is working. i've started sampling snares from metal songs but unfortunately my metal collection only extends as far as metallica and some berzerker cds. anybody have any idea how those guys are making such crushing snares? i've been looking into addictive drums and drumkit from hell too because i've heard they have some pretty nice snare samples.

Have you tried the Meanbeat sample packs?

JFK wrote:Have you tried the Meanbeat sample packs?

beat me to it, rumour has it thats what he uses most of the time, or addictive drums

Echoi wrote:

JFK wrote:Have you tried the Meanbeat sample packs?

beat me to it, rumour has it thats what he uses most of the time, or addictive drums

I cant stop using the Meanbeat stuff....... I think I might have some kind of psychological addiciton to them.

i also sugget the meanbeat kit
compression- bitcrush- chorus- vocoder- saturnation

if you use live, then open an 'impulse' sample thing, then import some snares (search for hardcore snares on google or something) then, turn the saturation on and turn the drive to about 16-20. and ur sorted

where can the meanbeat kit from? the website redirects for me

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/797590852/29 ... a93aedaff8

Download link

Sample a real snare with the skin pulled affy tight and hit the rim and skin at the same time.

JFK wrote:https://rcpt.yousendit.com/797590852/29 ... a93aedaff8

Download link

its expired

Ahhh Fuck. So it has......

I'll try and upload when I get back from work.

JFK wrote:Ahhh Fuck. So it has......

I'll try and upload when I get back from work.

now why couldnt you have done that with those woodblocks eh?

JFK wrote:Ahhh Fuck. So it has......

I'll try and upload when I get back from work.

Yeah plz do, sounds good. try skydrive or mediafire.

EDIT: Just found these on doa, not sure if same - MeanBeat Samples.zip (20Mb) http://www.sendspace.com/file/5ez2ve

Yeeeaahhh thats the pack. Well done Bazzle!

I'll check out those meanbeat samples...

to get an original, tight and heavy snare sound

layer snares add fx and compress

ever heard of a free vst called bertrill, its a waveshaper/mad distortion, bit of that on the snare send and bingo

can we post torrent links on here? i have an amazing sample pack full of snares and stuff, i don't think its an official pack,looks like a botch job. i not going to post the link until given permission

no you can't post torrents here.

try adding short 909 or 808 sd samples under the layers you're already building. lots of great chunky snares in stylus, and you can build 'em in synths as well-- i remember absynth being particularly good for drum sounds.

Sharmaji wrote:no you can't post torrents here.

lol

if you searched this forum for meanbeat youd find this

http://www.paradigmx.com/samples/meanbeat.rar

Sharmaji wrote:no you can't post torrents here.

no probs.

those samples are a let down