Hello,
Probably a pretty popular question right now due to the popularity of 'lofi house', apologies if thats so.
But I'd like to know what the tricks are to achieve drums such as these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSV7c-sbsk
or these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lfzOSdFeSg
I understand there is a lot of filtering going on with the hits, and also bit reduction to emulate old samplers. So I have D16 Decimort cutting off over 10k and reducing to 12 bits, that gets a fair bit of the way there.
But what I'm struggling with is getting the 'crunch' from distortion. I gather it's to emulate overdriving a desk or something. So I have put SDRR or Ableton's tube distortion over a drum buss and it crunches, but it also gets really muddy and looses a lot of dynamics.
How do you get the drums to gel, crunch and have drive without loosing the dynamics and definition?
I'm actually after a subtler effect in my own music, but I figure if I learn the extreme then I can dial it back to taste.
I personally would like drums to feel like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xDFZCsHpGg
Thanks!
Submitted November 09, 2017 at 08:09AM by Plyphon https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/7bsny4/whats_the_trick_to_getting_crunchy_lofi_drums/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Thursday, November 9, 2017