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OK, so in this video, I'm
going to show you how I would use samples

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to augment and reinforce
some of our drum sounds.

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In an ideal world,
it would be nice to get away with never

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using any drum samples.

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But part of the modern day recording
is that we have this technology available

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to get the most for what's best,
ultimately for the song.

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So I like to use drum samples in a way

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where we can reinforce
the sounds that are already there

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and try and make
the best of what we've got.

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OK, so in the last video,

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we were looking at some editing
in this one, I'm going to go over

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some of the mixing practices
I've done and on their drums,

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so I'll just quickly play
you where we left off.

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So this was a raw drum sound,
if you like after recording.

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Which is'nt bad,

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as I say, that is as we recorded
originally

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and then we've come to this,
this is our mixed drum

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sound.

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So there's a lot more crisp,

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quite a nice, snappy sound,
which is great for this style of music.

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OK, so I'll just go over a few things
that we've done now.

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There is a couple of samples
added in with some of this purely

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because recording these days,
obviously, it's

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great to be in a real nice studio
with a great sounding live room.

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Great mic preamps,
great EQ's compressers and recording

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with all that equipment
on the way into pro tools,

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but it's not always a practical option
for everyone else.

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So for us, recording
in a fairly small sort of office space,

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you know,

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using an old digital format,
we've used some effects on the way in

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to give us a similar kind of sound
in some aspects.

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But samples will really help transform
any home or project studio recording,

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it will step it up a level to make it
sound that little bit more professional.

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So it's something
I'm quite a fan of doing.

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I tend to just do it
on the kick and snare,

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but sometimes in this case I found that
the Toms benefit from it as well.

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So what I'll talk about in this video
more than anything is the samples.

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And then in the next video,

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I'll go into more of the general EQ
that we've got going on.

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So on the kick drum, this is our raw kick
with some processing on.

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As I say, the next video will go into
what I'm doing on these two.

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So it's
not about Saturday, it's all there,

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but once we have to sample,
it really helps cut through.

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I just play you the sample on its own.

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So it's quite a tight.

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It's got a little bit roominess to it,

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and that really does help with that

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base drum.

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So again, without the sample.

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And then with.

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And it's

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a similar kind of thing, but a snare
so the snare.

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That's our raw near top and bottom, mic.

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I've got a noise gate going on,
which I'll explain later,

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but again, on its own sounds, OK.

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Add in the sampling with it.

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It's got a lot of punch, a lot of crack.

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And again, a little bit more roominess
to that as well.

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So a sample on its own, sounds like this.

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And then back blended with the snare.

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So I play that with all the drums again.

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And if I just mute these samples
on the kick and snare

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so you don't hear those at all,
you'll see what I mean.

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So if we mute those now.

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So that's with no kick and snare sample.

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And then we put them back in.

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It really helps reinforce
the overall drum sound.

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Now it can be very easy
to completely replace a kick drum sound

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or a snare sound.

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But I like to use them
blended in with the originals

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because the originals will always have
that human feel element to them

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that sometimes
you don't get with a sample,

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but by adding these
and it just helps push that over the edge.

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And for me personally, I think it helps
create a more professional overall sound.

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We have got some going on the toms as well

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where we're actually
blending these sounds.

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So if I just play this section here.

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A little bit further back.

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So we've kind
got a like 70/30 blend on there,

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so 70% sample
sound with 30% of the original sound.

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And again, it's just helping create a nice

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overall fatter Tom Sound,
which does ultimately cut through

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the mix a lot more on this.

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So the whole,

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which ultimately does cut through

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the mix
a lot more for this style of music.

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So the whole thing again.

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And that's working quite
well when we bring that in

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with the guide instruments, obviously
these will get rerecorded at some point.

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But just for a little bit of context.

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Starting to slowly

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sound like a more complete
sort of song idea now.

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OK, so in the next
video, I'll talk a little bit more about

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some of the EQ and dynamic processing
that we've got going on.

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But this one is mainly focused on samples

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to give you an idea
of how I like to use those.