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Posted by paulc_dj on Jan-30-2006 23:53:

Frequency of a snare

I have a sample that I am using at the moment, that I am trying to eq a snare drum out of. It's a non-trance song, infact its an indie song, but I am working on a trance remix of it. Do any of you guys know roughly what eq settings or what frequencies to cut, so I could make it less noticeable or eradicate it altogether?

Thx.

PC

Posted by Storyteller on Jan-31-2006 01:02:

not gonna work.

A snare is a sound based on noise. It's sound is spreaded across the entire spectrum.

Posted by Icone on Feb-01-2006 10:32:

Storyteller is correct, a snare is basically just based on (some kind of) noise.

What you could try to do (or what I would do), is using an autotuner, or perhaps try to gain some info on what 'notes' are predominant in the snare noise (via a midi recognition program).

Then again I'm not too sure about how all this might work.

Posted by skot_e on Feb-01-2006 10:58:

Snare's can range from 80/100 Hz to 15kHz - pretty hard to say what freq has been isolated in the track and therefore what to remove.
Just mess around with a band pass to find out what it is.
Alternatively you could just incorporate it into the mix

Posted by DJ KaRiM NeT on Feb-01-2006 21:26:

experiment with the eq .. !

Posted by nhibberd on Feb-03-2006 01:14:

If you want to incorporate the snare into your mix failing subtracting it you need a perfect synch. And with live, non-digital recordings such as indie music the BPM varies and is hard to synchronise. A lot of Accapella versions of tunes often have subtle remainders of a snare for some reason.

Indeed a snare takes you through just about every part of the frequency spectrum. First of all the stick hitting the drum couses the membrane to move down sharply which couses a very very low freqency sound. and after that the steel snares rattling against the membrane couse very high frequency sounds that are very random in frequency with a very large range. I don't think EQ is your best option. But if you realy want to do it this way find out how to view a spectrum analysis of a sellected audio part and applie that to the isolated snare.

You will never totaly eliminate the snare but you can limit it's presence. If it is an acapella track with remnants of a snare then it is often very visible in the wavform, the snare realy sticks out. If this is the case then you need to set up a compressor with a threshhold that just hits the snare peak. With a sharp compression this should drown out the snare and other sounds in the waveform. Not a perfect sollution but better than the snare being present in some cases.

kind regards,

Charlie D