Quick Tip on How to Spice Up Your Drum Tracks
A quick and effective way to spice up your drum tracks is to add textural echoes. To start, create 2 auxiliary inputs with delay inserts at 16th notes – or any combination that sounds good – and create a send from the drum audio track to each of these aux delays. Pan each delay to opposite sides and turn up the drum audio send volume to taste. I like to add more variance by using different kinds of rhythmic delays and by off-balancing the two delays – changing their feedback, rate, depth, etc. You should also consider using some stylistic eqs, filters, phasers, reverbs, chorus effects, distortions, etc. in your delay chain to add more creative character.
This technique will work in pretty much any popular DAW (ProTools, Logic, Nuendo) but in Reason I will generally use an audio splitter to keep a dry drum signal and then feed the split-signals into the delays and fx. From there using a line mixer to route these three signals together and output the line mixer into the input of the main mixer… it’s kind of cumbersome, so keep your elements in a Combinator.
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