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Posted by phyrrus on May-17-2006 03:02:

open hihats

trying to get the open hihat sound used in a lot of breakbeat or hip hop songs, like a cymbal crash that is cut short. I'm a reason user and from what I understood it was just loading the same hihat sample twice in redrum and making the length of one sample longer than the other, but it doesn't seem to be working. any ideas?

here's a sample of what I'm going for, from Where Do I Begin by Chemical Bros.

sample

Posted by Sexomatic on May-17-2006 19:17:

sounds like crash with flange or phaser effect on it

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=53CEB94857865789

Posted by PutBoy on May-17-2006 20:19:

The clip sucked.

And, why not just use an open hihat?

Posted by Freak on May-17-2006 22:00:

Re: open hihats

quote:
Originally posted by phyrrus

here's a sample of what I'm going for, from Where Do I Begin by Chemical Bros.

sample

That sample is shockingly bad......

Thankfully the track is not....it is one of my favourites.

Heavily compressed cymbal- combined with a touch of reversed sample underneath it if you feel the need.
Its a good sample to begin with too-always helps.

That particular track drum wise is compressed to shit anyway. Compression when used creatively can change a sound so much.

It cuts off because its triggered on a sampler and you can do that on them by setting it to 'loop in release' (on an akai S series anyway) and settting a really short note value for the cut off ones.

Lots of ways to do it- try sampling it and chopping it about a bit and seeing what you can come up with.