Drum Design
There is nothing more satisfying than creating your own custom drum sounds to use in your beat productions!
Most beginner producers use commercial sample packs or drop samples in their productions that they have sampled from vinyl, but that is not the best way to be original and unique. What if you could create your drum sounds from scratch or to take an existing drum sound and maul it into a new texture? Stand out from the crowd!
The sound design tutorials in this category show you exciting ways of creating brand new drum sounds. Further, I guide you through how to use effects to make your creations even more interesting and dynamic.
Tutorials
Chopping/Slicing Beats Using Recycle
Beginner
How to chop/slice drum loops using Propellerheads Recycle.Duration: 10 mins
Combining Ripped Beats to create new Beats
Intermediate
A sound design technique covering how to rip two different beats, at different tempos, replace all the drum sounds within the beats and then mash them up together to create a new beat!Duration: 7 mins
Processing a Snare to fit in with a Ripped Drum Break
Intermediate
Using drum replacement software to rip a snare drum from a commercial drum beat and then creating new snares using a string of dynamics!Duration: 7 mins
Working on the Sub Layer of a Kick Drum
Intermediate
How to process a sub kick to blend in with a ripped beat!Duration: 7 mins
Topping and Tailing Ripped Beats - Truncating and Normalising
Beginner
How to top and tail drum sounds extracted from a beat. Topping and Tailing refers to truncating and normalising audio along with fade ins and outs.Duration: 6 mins
Extracting Drum Sounds from a Beat using Drumagog
Intermediate
How to rip and replace drum sounds (drum elements) within a beat using Drumagog.Duration: 9 mins
Compressing Roland TR 808 Kick Drums
Intermediate
Understanding and exploring Roland TR 808 kick drum compression techniques.Duration: 12 mins
Compressing Roland TR 909 Kick Drums
Intermediate
A detailed journey into how best to use a compressor for processing Roland TR 909 kick drums.Duration: 15 mins
Compressing EDM Drums Beats
Beginner
A detailed tutorial on how to compress a driving EDM Drum Beat.Duration: 9 mins
Layering drums using middle and side processing
Advanced
Sound Design tutorial on how to create a background ambient texture from a drum loop using M/S (Middle and Side) and Layering it with drum sounds.Duration: 6 mins
Processing Low End Kicks
Intermediate
Very cool techniques on how to process Low End kicks for a bigger sound!Duration: 7 mins
Using Phase Cancellation in Sound Design
Advanced
An advanced Samplecraze sound design tutorial on how to use flip/inversion, sample nudge and phase cancellation within your DAW to create new sounds.Duration: 15 mins
Harmonizer Effect - what it is and how to use it
Intermediate
What is a harmonizer effect - how does it work and how to use it for adding harmonies to vocals or to create interesting special effects. In this video, I use the mighty Eventide Harmonizer 910 to maul a drum beat!Duration: 7 mins
Using Expansion - the power of Side-chaining
Advanced
An advanced tutorial on how to use the side-chain of an expander to create new textures for a drum beat. Expansion is a well know dynamic that professionals use for a number of corrective and mixing processes.Duration: 6 mins
Drum Reverb
Intermediate
Covering techniques, pitfalls and advanced functions on how to configure and use drum reverbs.Duration: 6 mins
Add Variety to your Drum Beats using Delay Effects
Intermediate
Sound design tutorial on using delay effects to create a variety of drum textures using existing sounds.Duration: 10 mins
Using a Delay to Manipulate Stereo Width
Intermediate
Using a delay effect to create and manipulate stereo width. Make your mixes wider!Duration: 5 mins
EDM Kick Drum Processing using Valves/Tubes
Intermediate
How to use valves/tubes to add warmth and thickness to EDM kick drums.Duration: 11 mins
Compressing EDM Kick Drums
Advanced
Advanced tutorial on how to use a compressor to shape and colour EDM kick drums.Duration: 15 mins
Roland TR 808 Kicks and Multiband Compression
Intermediate
Learn how to use a multiband compressor (MBC) to shape and colour Roland TR 808 bass drums. Getting 808s to swell and bounce has never been easier.Duration: 7 mins
Layering Drum Sounds using Multiple Layers
Intermediate
Learn how to layer drum sounds by using multiple layers and with parallel processing.Duration: 9 mins
Drum processing using Middle and Side - M/S
Intermediate
An advanced tutorial that details how to use M/S (Middle and Side) processing to shape and colour drum sounds.Duration: 6 mins
Drum Layering in Native Instruments Battery
Beginner
Learn how to layer, manipulate and process drum sounds using Native Instruments Battery.Duration: 4 mins
Create Epic Drums Sounds using the 'Flip and Nudge' Technique
Intermediate
An advanced Samplecraze technique for processing and layering drum sounds using a unique approach to sound design - as featured in Sound On Sound Magazine.Duration: 11 mins
Shaping Drum Sounds for Layering
Beginner
A detailed tutorial on how to prepare your samples for drum layering using ADSR envelopes, truncating and normalising.Duration: 5 mins
Creating a Huge Low End Kick
Intermediate
A sound design tutorial on how to use dynamic processors to create an epic low end kick!Duration: 6 mins
Adding Sheen and Bounce to Roland TR 808 Kick drums
Intermediate
Learn how to add 'bounce' and sheen to Roland TR 808 bass drums.Duration: 8 mins
Using Recycle REX Files and Constructing New Beats
Intermediate
Learn how to import Propellerheads Recycle REX files into NI's Battery and then create new beats from existing content.Duration: 7 mins
Programming Drum Beats in Cubase
Beginner
Learn how to program amazing drum beats using the Key Editor in your DAW.Duration: 16 mins
Layering Snares using a Synthesizer and a Noise Gate
Intermediate
A sound design tutorial on layering snares using tone generators, noise gates with advanced routing techniques.Duration: 10 mins
Layering Snares using a Noise Gate and Pink/White Noise
Intermediate
Sound design tutorial on how to create new snare textures using a noise gate and generated pink/white noise.Duration: 13 mins
Layering Kicks using a Tone Generator and Noise Gate
Intermediate
Learn how to create epic new kick drums using noise gates and tone generators. The noise gate shapes the tone generator which is then layered with a kick drum.Duration: 15 mins
Roland TR 808 Kick Drum Bounce Processing
Intermediate
Get your Roland TR 808 bass drums bouncing like a rubber ball!Duration: 10 mins
Layering Kick Sounds using Tone Modules
Intermediate
Build the most potent kicks known to mortals using advanced drum layering techniques!Duration: 21 mins
Processing a Kick Drum in Parallel
Advanced
Sound design tutorial - creating a monster kick drum using tone modules and parallel processing.Duration: 12 mins
How to use Reverb for Electronic Drums
Beginner
Let me help you to understand and master electronic drum reverb processing to bring out the best in your beat creations!Duration: 11 mins
Avoiding Masking and Summing of frequencies by Panning
Intermediate
Masking and summing of frequencies are a real headache when it comes to gain staging your mixes. One potent way to rectify these issues is to use panning. Let me show you how easy the process is.Duration: 5 mins
The Art of Drum Layering - Advanced
Advanced
The Art of Drum Layering Advanced is jam-packed with over 60 minutes of advanced drum layering techniques. A comprehensive aid for pros and hobbyists alike, build on your know-how with easy to follow tutorials and produce truly epic beats.Duration: 60 mins
Using EQ to add Punch and Clarity on a TR 909 Kick Drum
Intermediate
Struggling to get your TR 909s to cut through the mix and invade the dance floor? This video tutorial shows you how to use equalisation to add punch and clarity to 909 kick drums.Duration: 10 mins
Using Dynamic EQ on the Drum Group
Intermediate
Glue the drum group with dynamic equalisation!Duration: 9 mins