How Do You Make Percussive Grooves like Guy Gerber?

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Posted by costizzle on Oct-19-2009 06:08:

How Do You Make Percussive Grooves like Guy Gerber?

Does anybody know any hit hat or percussive elements that guy gerber uses to make his productions soo heavy?

Posted by Stef on Oct-20-2009 00:03:

example?

Posted by costizzle on Oct-20-2009 09:10:

the entire set pretty much from his space opening party in ibiza there is this heavy beat that plays throughout the whole set that he probably had looping on a his laptop or cdj.

Posted by costizzle on Oct-20-2009 09:11:

or in other words how to make a beat/groove sound heavier?

Posted by kitphillips on Oct-20-2009 09:15:

Is there something you don't understand about post a sample? And what do you mean by "heavy"? Confusing thread is confusing.

Posted by cryophonik on Oct-20-2009 15:34:

Yes, post a sample if you want some input.

But, the answer is probably pretty obvious - use the right samples and mix them a little louder than you normally would. "Heavy" samples are usually ones that sound big to begin with. In other words, use kicks, snares/claps, and hihats that each cover a large frequency range and/or layer them. In other words, you aren't going to get a "heavy" hihat sound by starting out with a thin little 808 hihat.

You can also make your percussion sound heavier by mixing in additional percussion layers, sound fx, etc. Also, reverb and delay on some elements can really fill in the spaces and make your drums/percs sound heavy. Distortion, bit reduction, etc. can also make drums sound heavy.

But, as we said, post a sample and you'll get some more relevant input.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Oct-20-2009 16:05:

quote:
Originally posted by cryophonik
In other words, you aren't going to get a "heavy" hihat sound by starting out with a thin little 808 hihat.

You can, it just takes a bit of work.

http://jbj.raceriv.com/sounds/808dist.mp3

Not exactly sure what is meant by "heavy" so I just put some effects on it to make it fiercer-sounding.

Posted by cryophonik on Oct-20-2009 16:18:

quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
You can, it just takes a bit of work.

What I mean is that, you can't add lower frequencies that aren't already there. For example, if you're using a chintzy-sounding 808 hihat, you can't EQ it into a huge sounding "arena rock" hihat.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Oct-20-2009 16:22:

Oh yeah, a synthetic drum sound will always sound pretty synthetic. The closest you can get are complex algorithms like this I think:

http://www.mcld.co.uk/cymbalsynthesis/