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Drum sample replacing

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Drum sample replacing

Recording real drums can be hard. Getting in the correct combination of room, mic placement, gear, and drum kit can be near impossible especially on a budget. Drum replacing or sample triggering is a trick that pros have used for years to help add impact, supplement weak drums or completely replace drum sounds from a kit with prerecorded samples. In the Take Me Down session, I actually have printed or prerecorded a sampled snare drum, let's listen to that. (music playing) And I blended it in to the original snare drum. (music playing) Now I've automated it up and down in different parts of the session to give me more impact, because what I found was with this original snare, I kind of like the splat I was getting out of the bottom mic, and I liked the impact of the top mic but I found that I wasn't able to get as much punch out of that snare with my compressors that I wanted, because I couldn't gait it extremely hard due to the ghost notes. So in this intersection he's playing a lot…

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