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Posted by J.L. on Sep-20-2011 15:14:

Assigning Percussion FX

Just curious how some of you tend to treat your percussion.

I typically assign my kicks to one channel and treat it with compression and EQ.
I assign my snares/claps to another channel and also treat it with compression and EQ and subtle reverb.
I assign my hats/cymbals to another channel and may add subtle reverb and subtle sidechain compression from the kick.

If I have toms, I tend to just add a bit of EQ and then treat it with some compression.

I then group up all the channels and treat it with some subtle tape saturation fx.

This has just been the way I've done things, but I'd like to see how other people do things and if we can bounce ideas off of each other.

Cheers.

Posted by cryophonik on Sep-20-2011 16:32:

Re: Assigning Percussion FX

quote:
Originally posted by J.L.
If I have toms, I tend to just add a bit of EQ and then treat it with some compression.

Here's a trick that I use for toms - if you want to get a huge "arena rock" sound out of your toms, try smashing them with a limiter. I typically route my toms to one buss, EQ them as necessary, squash the hell out of them with a limiter to make them sound huge and to essentially level them all off, and send from the buss to my reverb.

Posted by Von Pistol on Sep-20-2011 18:51:

I normally have my perc in three diff channels and my kick is completely separate.

highs, mids, and lows are the 3

i compress and eq all three separately according to what i want to get outa them and then i buss them to the same reverb send to save "room in the mix"

Posted by kadomony on Sep-21-2011 08:22:

Standard starting point for me is:
Channel 1 - Kicks
Channel 2 - Clap/Snare
Channel 3 - High hats
Channel 4 - Other mid-range tonal perc

Bus all of them to an FX channel with hall/room reverb.
A little send on channels 1,2,4, lots of send on 3.

Create another fx channel with a longer reverb and bus the Clap/Snare with more send there.

Apply eq,compression and other effects as needed to individual channels to fine tune.

Posted by itsamemario on Sep-21-2011 15:24:

How I do my percs are usually different from each time, but I normally have a bunch of fx channels routed into one perc bus where i do some gentle compression and often a little distortion.

i rarely send my kick to the perc channel. sometimes i group it with the bassline, but i'm starting to move away from that.