| I usually start with what I've got, do the usual dig out what I can using gates, ridiculous compression, eqing one duplicate for thump, one for crack, etc... then, bring on the samples... if the original really sucks, I'll just totally replace it with something totally different. I've got other specific samples I just use for thump or just for width if I just need to help out the original. I've added eq'ed kick drums to beef up snares before.
Sometimes when I'm going to use one of the good hits from the song I'll do some processing (eq, compression, ambience) as I bounce it out.
I've been using BFD to make samples that are tuned to what the original was, but sound way better. You can also dial in the ambience with the sample if you need some width from ambience.
BFD is handy for replacing toms too... you can easily match the tuning of the originals, or tune 'em to the song like they should've been originally or whatever. |