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Future Bass Snares
« on: April 01, 2016, 07:32:24 pm »
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Does anyone have an insight in how people make snares in future bass? I would love to know how they are built from scratch. I particularly love the snare in this track: https://soundcloud.com/elysianrecords/stelouse-myrne-call-me. Does everyone take their samples from packs like lex luger or something to build them?

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Re: Future Bass Snares
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2016, 04:59:16 pm »
From what I hear in that track, the snare is comprised of three layers:

1. A pretty dry sounding clap sample, probably just some stock 808 or 909 clap someone put in a sample pack.
2. The transient snare, which is probably a more traditional snare sample. Might be just a punchy noisy snare (if so you might not need the clap, but i think they're two different sounds). This also carries a bit of the body, which is where the faint "doof" under the louder tone can be heard.
3. The big tonal hit, which sounds like a pitched down glass hit or woodblock sound. A lot of future bass and post-Jack Ü trap is centered around layering very metallic tones underneath your snare, so experiment with pots and pans and bells and whatnot.

The actual sample sources themselves are honestly irrelevant. Chances are, you already have all the samples you need - and you can just get a bunch of metallic sounds from freesounds.org or something like that. Experiment, and see what happens!

I'm not the best sound designer when it comes to creating new drum samples, but here's a quick little example based off what I just told you, and the snare is deconstructed here.

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Re: Future Bass Snares
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2016, 09:25:32 am »
I'm not the best sound designer when it comes to creating new drum samples, but here's a quick little example based off what I just told you, and the snare is deconstructed here.
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Re: Future Bass Snares
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2016, 03:17:05 pm »
its a square wave played at whatever note the snare hits on. make sure it is in tune with your track obviously. I think sometimes it is playing a major 5th to add energy. Get a nice transient sample with some click, get a nice high end sample for that washing out sound, then insert a square wave with a pitch envelope that is an octave or two and moves really fast. That will give you that bloopy sound. low pass it a little so you're not getting all the high end muck and just keep the fundamental, then put some mild reverb on it so it rings out a bit with the rest of the snare.

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Re: Future Bass Snares
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2016, 04:33:28 am »
major 5th

Great idea w/ the square wave, but just wanted to note that there is no "major" 5th interval - there's the perfect 5th, which can be augmented or diminished. Just wanted to clarify that in case anyone new to the idea gets confused. :)

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Re: Future Bass Snares
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2016, 03:07:32 pm »
Thanks guys! This is some real insight. How would you go about placing these snares in the stereo field? Would you have the transient down the middle and the other elements wider or...?

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Re: Future Bass Snares
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2016, 03:36:07 pm »
That's gonna be up to personal preference; in my opinion most printed audio should be completely mono so I can have as much control over my stereo imaging as possible. The only audio files that I would really want to be stereo are things specifically recorded in stereo for their panoramic effect - like ambiances & atmospheres or a recording that is meant to pick up the doppler effect (though again, I can do that physically with transposition/pitch bending and pan pot automation).

So I'd personally process and mix the sounds to fit together directly on top of one another (I use fades on the non-transient sounds to preserve the attack that i want, level balance to peak somewhere around -0.5 or -1 dB, and EQ/compress only as needed to save some work later on down the road), then just mix it into the track like I normally would any other snare. I always bounce out the hit to a new sample right away whenever I'm making layered hits; it's just easier to work with than a big 3 or 4 layer stack of one shots (thanks to Mr. Bill for that idea).

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Re: Future Bass Snares
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2016, 09:16:54 pm »
Thanks Mussar! Your answers have really helped. I'm already on the road to making snares like that now. Just need to keep practicing now!

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Re: Future Bass Snares
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2016, 05:45:19 pm »
No problem! I should add that there's multiple ways to get the sound you want, so feel free to experiment and riff based off of what has been said already. For example, here's a tutorial on Vengeance-style snares and they're doing the sort of layered stereo imaging that you were thinking (and I can see why that would be desirable). Of course, with Vengeance samples you really can't do much with them after the fact - they have a sound and that's how you use them. So it's up to you how you'd want to proceed.

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Re: Future Bass Snares
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2016, 12:31:01 am »

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Re: Future Bass Snares
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2016, 04:15:58 am »
Sounding really clean! Just gotta process it and put it in a track and you're well on your way!  ;D