At the studio need help with hats/imaging

[Ham]

Hey guys

Im at the studio right now and have no internet so im posting on my mobile phone.

Im trying to get my hats to sound like a certain track. The way the hats sound are amazing to me. Theyre in front of the mix and not too high frequency wise. Im using the same sample as he did, an processed it as close as i can get back mixwise im not there yet.

DJ T - DIS (kink remix)

Id post the youtube video but dont know how to do it on iphone.

Thanks so much,
Cant wait to share my hard work with you all!

[Reptil]

hat -->
yes please. hats are not easy.

[Mr Arkadin]

I have the same problem with fedoras. Not so much baseball caps.

[Ham]

I guess this is the troll section.... Come at me bro

[mike vee]

sounds layered with a shaker cut real short and then the open hat has stereo widening on it

[Reptil]

Originally Posted by Ham

I guess this is the troll section.... Come at me bro

a bit of trolling haha, just waiting for the files. thumbsup

[Mr Arkadin]

I think you could manage a link to the sound you're after. Oh, let me do the work for you:

[Reptil]

I was lazy!

sounds like a gated TR909 to me. nice hats. nice song too.

[Ham]

How's he get the hihats to stand out in front of the mix like that. Its 909 most probably but the mixing is what I'm talking about.


Any tips appreciated to achieve this sound, theres a lot of panning as well

Originally Posted by Mr Arkadin

I think you could manage a link to the sound you're after. Oh, let me do the work for you:

I was posting on a mobile phone...read the post..

[Reptil]

nah he was talking to my lazy ass. you're fine.

depth has to do with perception.
so if you need something in the front of the mix, like those closed hihats, you need to push the rest (in the same freq part) back. (like the open hihat, that has, like mentioned before, a splash of reverb). you can compress it too a little, to make it appear "solid", perhaps some eq to taste. But the main thing is to keep those hihats dry.

[evosilica]

Haas Delay can work very well on hats

Delay one channel ~10-20ms and then try pan it back to the middle.

While i avoid it on synths, because it mostly sounds terrible collapsed to mono (phase cancelations), it does not seem to be a problem with unharmonic, noisy stuff like hihats.

[Reptil]

Originally Posted by evosilica

Haas Delay can work very well on hats

Delay one channel ~10-20ms and then try pan it back to the middle.

While i avoid it on synths, because it mostly sounds terrible collapsed to mono (phase cancelations), it does not seem to be a problem with unharmonic, noisy stuff like hihats.

good trick. thumbsup
phaser works too (just 20% wet or less) then gate it with a very short release.

[Jackofall]

Collapse? ....I Thought the whole point of Haas was to make it so it 'doesnt collapse ....like the purpose to use the technic/technics.

make a mono signal -stereo ...sound wide. Nut I may not even understand the response cause I havnt read the entire post... and this is extremely old lol.

...What I do is, Apply Haas then just go back and fourth between its mono capability and the stereo sound. Find a good in between point using ALL methods on the subject. ....EQ come in to play if you want to go further ....Id do it after the initial haas creation. ya know... just a slight change in 2 mono eq's ....maybe a bit cut from one..a bit added to another... or cut different frequencies from both. etc etc