How come no one can reproduce these Ballad Snares

[TS-12]

The layered snare sounds in 2000’s ballads like “unbreak my heart” by Toni Braxton, do they use some kind of secret drum samples ?



How come no one besides the big guys can get the same snare sounds ?

When listening to it, it seems like it’s something simple, but when you try to find snare samples like these, no sound sample library or plugin has these snares.

[BertKoor]

I'm no big guy, but the secret sauce always has the same ingredients: eq, compression, lush reverb. The sample (or recorded audio) is just the raw tomato, not yet ketchup.

[gaggle of hermits]

N/m

[BertKoor]

Now I actually listened to Toni Braxton (1996), if you want to recreate this (and I'm implying it's not too difficult, so it is far from impossible) I'd start with a Roland CR-78 or some other beatbox from that era.

I don't think there's much layer there, but I'd be pleased to be proven wrong.

[Ikaz7]

The "snare" sounds more like a finger snap or light hand clap with lots of algorithmic reverb (Lex 480 large chamber?). Or do you mean the snare sound starting at 3:14? This is a pretty generic sounding snare with lots of algo hall.

[jackoo]

no one's trying

[DSmolken]

Maybe there aren't enough women among sample developers, and guys just haven't been paying any attention to ballads since at least the 1980s.