How to eliminate "ringing" in snare sample?

[esl]

I am not sure if this is even possible, but is there a method to "dampen" or possible eliminiate the ringing in a snare sample? I put a tight envelope on it, but I was wondering if there were any other methods to this.

[jones-y]

Try a notch EQ. If you don't know what that means, here's a technique:

Insert an EQ (duh), preferrably, one that capable of a high Q. For example, Logic's Channel EQ can do a Q of 100.

Turn the Q up high, add about 10dB of gain, and sweep the EQ until you find the problem frequency.

Once you find the problem frequency, turn the gain down, and adjust both the gain and Q as desired.

[Snoogins47]

To eliminate the poooong, poooong St Anger sound, you can often do wonders by finding what frequency it's ringing out at (could probably use a Spectrum Analyzer for it if you wanted), and scooping a bit of it out with an EQ. I can't recommend specific methods as to exactly how to go about it, as I'm something of an amateur and just basically futz with it until I'm happy with it. I usually just set a fairly narrow Q and sweep around until I figure out where it's happening, and then cut it out. Sometimes I'll actually use two EQs: one narrow to significantly cut the overtone, and one wider that's more subtle, to try to smooth out the "hollow" sound that can sometimes go with a narrow cut. It all depends on how bad the ringing is, basically. Usually a fairly subtle cut can be enough: you don't necessarily need to get RID of the ringing, just bring it to a level where it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.

A quick release envelope is a decent idea too, sometimes, since the overtone usually tends to kinda "hang out" a bit longer than the bulk of the tone. Over-doing it might really mess with the natural sound of the sample, but hey, that effect might even be cool. Who knows.

I'm sure there will be people that can give you much more specific, better advice, but I like to chime in anyway.

[Stupid American Pig]

shorten the decay of the sample as well as eq

[zircon]

Honestly, you are better off simply getting a new sample. In the type of music that I typically write (big beat/electronic) I spend dozens of hours per song on the drumline. I often spend a few hours on the snare alone. I've found that if a sample isn't recorded the way you want, usually it's not productive to spend time trying to EQ it a certain way - for that nice, 'dead' snare sound that was common in 70s funk/rock, the best thing to do is simply to get snares that were recorded that way.

[esl]

thanks!