I Made EXPLOSIVE Hip-Hop Drums by Layering Samples and Drum Breaks

You know how some hip hop drums have that fat sound that punches through any speaker? In this video Mike Genato shares his processing techniques for getting a punchier sound out of any breakbeat sample.

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00:00 Introduction
00:48 Layering sounds on top of the break
02:17 Balancing the layers with the volume faders
02:41 EQing the break beat’s layers
04:54 Adding sidechain compression to the kick and snare
05:40 Adding sidechain compression to the hi-hats
06:05 Adding a dedicated sub track with sub oscillator synth
06:52 Adding a gate to the sub oscillator and sidechain it to the kick track
07:40 Adding a dedicated white noise track for the hi-hats
07:58 Putting processing and effect on the white noise track
08:12 Gate the white noise and sidechain it to the hi-hat track
09:09 Sending each layer to a bus for final EQ on low and high frequencies
09:57 Use a compressor on the bus to make a uniform sound

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