Tips to enhance low end punch and girth of snare drum?

[audioez]

Originally Posted by Brad McGowan

but was wondering if there were other options....bass enhancers?

dbx sub harmonic bass synth, or bass octive stomp box. Not too sure what plug would do the same.

[RKrizman]

Originally Posted by Brad McGowan

This is probably the first thing I will try. But like Thrill said, the phasing will probably get weird with extreme boosts.

Or it might sound great. I'd try to mine what's there before adding anything, like samples or reamping. Just takes a quick second.

So it's 6 days later. Any luck?

-R

[Brad McGowan]

Yeah! Check out my post at the bottom of page 1 of the thread for details.

thanks all,
Brad

[godcity]

does the speaker actually rest on the snare head?
do you just scoot the speaker off to one side so that you have space to mic up the top head, or are you micing it somewhere else?
thanks

Originally Posted by Benjy King

Get that brass snare you wanted. Put it on a stand. Take an Auratone speaker or something similar and place it on top of the snare---speaker facing down. Now mic the snare however you wish. Buss the original snare to the Auratone. Crank it up until you like the way it's smacking the snare. Record onto another track. Like re-amping except with a drum.

[u b k]

narrowish boost between 100 and 200, wider cut somewhere between 400-800.


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[bluesbaz]

Sometimes I soundreplace the snare track but the sound of the overhead is still there messing everything up. A cool trick is to use a sidechain compresser on the overhead track fast in fast out feed by the snare track. What it does is dip the snare out of the overhead.
-s

[RKrizman]

Originally Posted by Brad McGowan

A friend of mine had a good suggestion for avoiding this scenario in the future. He said at the beginning of the session when we are getting drum sounds I should play a pre-recorded snare drum track that is simply used as a Drumagog trigger. Then with the band present I should scroll through the different samples and have the band pick out snare sounds they like. When they hear something that they think fits the sound they have in their head, I then tell them to go into the live room and hit the snare they brought in: "Does it sound like the snare drum we just listened to? No? Well you had better get in the car and head over to Guitar Center and find one that does if you want your snare to sound like that!"

Brad

Very funny. What do you call that, switch and bait?

-R

[PhilR]

We recorded a band a while back whos drummer told us he wanted his snare to sound like the drummer from The Red Chord.

Of course our first question was "Well, does your snare sound like the drummer from The Red Chords snare?". We then called him a few synonyms for idiot. But we've been mates with him for a while so we could get away with it. :p

[ludaluda]

Re-amping is a good idea.

Why not simply use a resonant filter?