Manipulating the levels of drum samples

- [Instructor] I want to talk about volume moves…on live drum sets that have snare samples…that reinforce the original performance.…And I've selected this song, Royal by Waterparks,…because there is quite a nice array…of drum samples that accompany the live drum performance.…However, there are undesirable qualities…to those drum samples…when rolls or fills,…sixteenth note type playing is involved.…

So what I like to do…to affect the overall feeling…of natural drumming going on in a rock band is…to take down the level of those drum samples…during the times where a fill or a roll occurs.…So we can hear the effect of this right away…at the beginning of the first verse.…Listen.…("Royal" by Waterparks)…So there, the level of those drum samples…decreases dramatically by about 5 dB every time…more than a single stroke or a single hit occurs,…and makes those rolls sound a lot more natural…than they would if they had the extra…samples going with them.…

Here it happens again later in the song…during the course of the chorus.…