Original Message 1/14                 Date: 01-Oct-01  @  09:52 PM   -   That sound

Matt Hutch

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Looking for that eighties punch in my drums. Gating my snares helps but they're still not quite a crisp as I would like.

And my kicks aren't happening at all. In fact they sound quite dull. Instead of a nice warm 'wump' I get a dull 'thud'.

How did those eighties producers get such slamming beats?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

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Message 2/14                 Date: 02-Oct-01  @  02:10 PM   -   RE: That sound

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if my memory serves (and i assume you mean NON dance genre for the eighties?) then it'd be the result of using 80's drumbox samples & a touch of gated verb + compression???.....

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Message 3/14                 Date: 02-Oct-01  @  04:08 PM   -   RE: That sound

Jasper

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too much low end? try rolling off at the eq at 80 or below.

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Message 4/14                 Date: 02-Oct-01  @  04:51 PM   -   RE: That sound

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BEATS	1 0 0 0  |  2 0 0 0  |  3 0 0 0  |  4 0 0 0
kick	1 0 0 0  |  1 0 0 0  |  1 0 0 0  |  1 0 0 0
snare1	0 0 0 0  |  1 0 0 0  |  0 0 0 0  |  1 0 0 0
snare2	0 0 0 0  |  1 0 0 0  |  0 0 0 0  |  1 0 0 0
snare3	0 0 0 0  |  1 0 0 0  |  0 0 0 0  |  1 0 0 0
hats	1 1 0 0  |  1 1 0 0  |  1 1 0 0  |  1 1 0 0
openhh	0 0 1 0  |  0 0 1 0  |  0 0 1 0  |  0 0 1 0

also layer your snares like in the drum groove diagram with this message

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Message 5/14                 Date: 02-Oct-01  @  04:52 PM   -   RE: That sound

damballah

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that encompasses a lot of tunes. what exactly are you looking for? Lionel Richie or Hüsker Dü?

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Message 6/14                 Date: 03-Oct-01  @  01:44 AM   -   RE: That sound

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mind you if he means 80's dance?... well some of it was crisp and electronic and was the machines of the day, linn & simmons etc.. and some was analog and some was 12bit sampler and some was 16 bit sampler.. mixed on hardware boards, analog distortion often from hard driven channels, some fx.

i think you'll have to be more specific in what 80's music you mean really to get a more defined answer

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Message 7/14                 Date: 04-Oct-01  @  11:50 PM   -   RE: That sound

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8 bits

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Message 8/14                 Date: 08-Oct-01  @  11:41 PM   -   RE: That sound

Matt Hutch

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Wow, thanks for the reply. Actually, I was referring to eighties dance, like George Micheal or Prince.

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Message 9/14                 Date: 09-Oct-01  @  08:08 PM     Edit: 09-Oct-01  |  08:11 PM   -   RE: That sound

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blimey... well.. oberheim DMX, emu's SP12 and SP1200, Linndrum, simmons modules (think any old SAW, Dead or Alive etc), possibly TR727 percussions, tr808, any of the possibly old 'beep-bloop' basic analog drumbox's (cheezey sounds like the KPR77 or Pearl drumbox ... also possibly the Sequential Tom (sequential drum-modules were quite good at the time)... & early samplers, mirage, akai & e-mu 12bit etc.

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Message 10/14                 Date: 19-Oct-01  @  04:21 PM   -   RE: That sound

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OR sample a kick drum with a coin taped to it...it will give this hard click in yer sound...

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