Processing Electronic Drums with Mattertone

Processing Electronic Drums with Mattertone

Being a multiband envelope shaper, Mattertone is ideal for treating drums, be it independently or in a complete loop. The latter is precisely what we will do in this tutorial, so let’s get going! Here’s our example track: We will now use the plugin to emphasize both...
Huge Rock Drums with SDC

Huge Rock Drums with SDC

When it comes down to mastering the SDC compressor is undoubtedly an ideal choice. However, it can also work wonders on sub mixes, such as a drum bus – that’s what we will explore in this tutorial! Go to work SDC comprises of two different compressor types, which work...
Bringing out the snare in a drum loop with SoundBrigade

Bringing out the snare in a drum loop with SoundBrigade

As a musician or producer you might know this situation: You’ve got an awesome sounding drum loop, but the snare drum could be a little more present, a little bit more ‘in your face’, and some more top-end couldn’t hurt neither. But how would you achieve that? You...
Drum loop enhancement with PolyJam

Drum loop enhancement with PolyJam

Programming realistic sounding drums, i.e. setting up different velocity values for most of the notes, can be fairly tedious. Likewise, if you’re working with a ready-made drum loop and repeat it a couple of times the overall sound might be rather static and boring...