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Producing your own breakbeat / vintage drum sound from scratch

   

The old skool sampled breaks we know and love come from recordings of live drums which consist of:


An array of mics (on individual kit pieces, overheads and room)

Gating

Compression

External processing i.e efffects etc

Not to mention the subtlties in the playing! (See the article of programming for that)


Recreate that ambience in  your own original breaks:


Create a sub mix of all your drum tracks
Feed the submix through a stereo room reverb - gives a nostalgic feel where everythings in the same room 

Compress everything together

EQ lows are rolled off below 50hz, and highs above 8khz

Add samples of record static or noise
Small amount of plate reverb

Large amount of a small ambient reverb

Finally a little distortion or saturation might be cool