snare drum in cameo's "Word up" and "back and forth"

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how was it created?

― startrekman, Monday, 9 May 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

just a guess, but gated reverb on snares is that quentisential 80s drum sound. and it sound like that here.

― phunkion, Monday, 9 May 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's all in the effects. I don't know the exacts though. My days producing in R&B based studios in the late 80's had an egineer always pulling out the effects that created something between that, and the Humpty Dance clap sound. I just wanted a thin 808 snare to highlight the bass...

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Gate plus reverb, yes

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Was it a drum machine on that stuff? Can't remember.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

This snare sound is 'more so' than most 80s snare sounds, I think. It is quite specific. I think it sounds like it's trying to sound lik a gun, but that might just be the apache-isms messing with my mind.

I think it is a machine, but I don't know.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

The mid-80s kinda blurred the line between drums and drum machines, what with all the triggering and gates and such; it's pretty hard to pin something by ear on the spectrum between drum machine, electronic pads, highly-produced triggers, and just highly-produced drums.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

Am I imagining this, or did some NME reviewer or something describe the snare sound on parts of the album as "celery on a piece of dry toast"? I must get around to recording that sound some time.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

This thread appears to be missing a Dr. Teeth graphic.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

eighteen years pass...

"To clarify, there was NO gated reverb on any of those sounds, although your version is really close. Larry forbade any reverb when we were tracking. He wanted the samples bone dry and in your face. The snare drum was Larry clapping his hands in the 11th floor stairwell into an AMS, triggered from the sample we put on tape. The bass drum was a linn9000 stock kick paired with a distorted bass drum sample I made at media sound when I first received the 9000 sampling card. Hope this helps! Also the small white noise sounds were from a Simmons SDS7."

From comments to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRbY1hfXPWY

― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Tuesday, 12 November 2024 02:26 (one year ago)

thanks, really fascinating.

this has prompted me to go deep on their catalogue, so may sick tunes in there

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 03:36 (one year ago)

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