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

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

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.

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

gated reverb : use & abuse !

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

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

take a linndrum/dmx/whatever snare

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

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.

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

Linn Drum snare + Tons of verb

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?

sample with synth mix with bus send verb and compression