Producing Beats

Drums Category

I have had these sitting on my computer for a long time, I placed them on another site once, but thought they would be useful to post here. They were recorded with a Shure SM58 and was a sort of shaker which is round and has strings of beads going round. I don't own that anymore and I can't remember off the top of my head what the name of the instrument is, so I'll have to just call them shaker samples. These samples are very useful for percussion sounds in your drum beats and are free for you to use in your tracks. There aresome quick shakes, long scrapes and more.

Parallel Gating
Before I began writing this post I did a quick search on Google for Parallel Gating, to see what other sort of articles were already out there for it and came up with next to nothing, I found this a little strange as I have found it a great little technique to know which was taught to me on a studio course I went on a long time ago and yet seems to be talked about very little.

New York Parallel Compression
The compressor can be one of the more difficult effects to get your head round using effectively, today I am going to show how to use it to make your beats sound noticeably louder using parallel compression, which is great for harder sounding genres of music. Firstly it is probably best to show you what the original beat sounded like before any compression is applied.

This one has to be one of my all time favorite VST effects. I can remember when I first found it, I played with it for a good few hours and you probably will too.

I find it works well on drum beats as the video below shows. Glitch has 9 different effects which TapeStop, Modulator, Retrigger, Shuffler, Reverser, Crusher, Gater, Delay and Stretcher. Each effect does what it sounds like it should do and each one can be tweaked to suit you with the controls below each one.