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Xaurn · Post by **Xaurn** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:46 am

A lot of the snare samples from the Vengeance Essential House collection have that Skrillex thump to them. I doubt he creates his snares from scratch. Choose a similar sounding sample and then just boost the 200-300Hz range to get more punch to the snare.

BorisDeckers · Post by **BorisDeckers** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:13 pm

Just pick a really good sounding snare drum which is really 'in the face' then just start EQ'ing it (if you use WAVES try and check if there are any good presets, most of the times you will get and instand better sound), after that just some distortion to give it that dirtyness. If the snare is not 'crispy' enough, try to send it to a channel with a bitcrusher or something like that.

Hope this helps!

bpblog · Post by **bpblog** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:26 pm

DSF forum member HalfTone has released a free sample pack with such snares a while ago:

Free Dubstep Samples By HalfTone

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:32 pm

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IELMusic · Post by **IELMusic** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:31 am

After a few minutes of experimenting, it seems you can make an extremely similar sound (almost exact to my ears), with just a single instance of Massive and some processing; without all the layering, hunting around for samples, EQ-ing, etc. Really, you can make the sound by heavily processing any basic drum machine-type snare sound. Here's a quick before and after (I know, the quality on SoundCloud isn't great, but even still, it's easy to hear that it's more or less the "Skrillex snare sound") : http://soundcloud.com/ieltheheretic/snare-test/s-KjUX6

neymuzic · Post by **neymuzic** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:39 am

It's not hard to make his snare...
ll you need is a TOm sample, a 909 snare and a transient you can make in a synthesizer.

dalor · Post by **dalor** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:55 am

Xaurn wrote:A lot of the snare samples from the Vengeance Essential House collection have that Skrillex thump to them. I doubt he creates his snares from scratch.

Not sure either but I was under the impression it was the exact opposite, he creates all his sounds from scratch, including the wob wob ya ya bass and synth sounds?

Vengeance sounds are of great quality but they usually react to music trends and not invent them - again my worthless 2C.

GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:09 am

Decent kicks and snares to be had in these free packs, found them a while back, and they do the trick : http://www.freesound.org/people/crispydinner/

Latheion · Post by **Latheion** » Fri Aug 02, 2013 10:10 am

In an interview given for iZotope he said:

"...For me, the drums are simple. It's all about the three pieces that make a really nice drum sound. You need a nice transient in the beginning, and then the note around the 200-hertz frequency that gives it that boof, and then a tail, which can be anything. I usually start with a 909 and compress it to get the harmonics of that 200-hertz note, and then take maybe one or two really good-sounding locked drum samples that don't conflict with any of the harmonics in the 909. You want to tune it at about 200, and shelve off a lot of that stuff above 200, and then you have this live-sounding hybrid 909. Then you take a clap or a china [sound] and shelve it off super high, and add some reverb to it and then print it as one. Balance it while you print it, and then you re-compress it from there and you have a snare drum."

martygras · Post by **martygras** » Fri Aug 02, 2013 11:17 pm

All this work for a snare sound? Seems silly.
Aren't we reinventing the wheel over and over?

nineofkings · Post by **nineofkings** » Fri Aug 02, 2013 11:30 pm

No, we're just adding chrome plating and high-performance tires.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Fri Aug 02, 2013 11:45 pm

neymuzic wrote:It's not hard to make his snare...
ll you need is a TOm sample, a 909 snare and a transient you can make in a synthesizer.

Forgive me, what exactly IS a transient in this sense? I thought it was a descriptive word, not a note...

spacecult · Post by **spacecult** » Sat Aug 03, 2013 4:02 am

arkmabat wrote:
neymuzic wrote:It's not hard to make his snare...
ll you need is a TOm sample, a 909 snare and a transient you can make in a synthesizer.
Forgive me, what exactly IS a transient in this sense? I thought it was a descriptive word, not a note...

Sharp, sudden, extremely quickly decaying sound is what he means here. To make the snare attack 'pop'.

(You can make one of those in most synthesizers.)

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:43 pm

Take any snare, tune it down, and then whack it with a multiband transient designer. Easy as can be. 909s are a good starting place.

Oliver Schmitt · Post by **Oliver Schmitt** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 12:24 pm

clever layering - often there arent so much elements incl. as you might expect - and of course process to death

Skrillex Snare Sound