https://www.audiotool.com/track/eaixpyvrwx/ i need some help trying to figure out what to do to the snare in this song. i want a dubstep snare, and i wanna use this particular snare, but i dont know how to make it sound like how i want it to sound like.
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Can you somehow describe what kind of "wrongness" is has? Is it too harsh, loud, outstanding, dry, ...
Maybe a reference to a track where it sounds "right"?
For my personal taste, there's a lack of mid frequencies - it sounds too "high-passed".
I think that the problem starts with the arrangement. The snare often hits in syncopated, odd times, and doesn't seem to "settle" into the up beat. This makes it call too much attention to itself and highlights its sonic shortcomings. Because the notes of your other instruments are also syncopated, there's no feeling of groove to drive the track forward. It seems to stumble instead. You need both syncopation and regularity. You could consider adding hi-hats to provide the regularity, or put the snare in up beats for most of your track. I listened to your snare source samples and they are good, so I agree that your processing is probably wrong. I wouldn't touch them much, since professional samples are already processed to sound good. Just level them against your mix. Consider also panning your snare off centre or add it to a stereoized reverb send to make it bigger, more expansive.
thanks for the advice. with the suncopation thing, it would sound weird to me, if it started on the upbeat, rather that where the wubs started. its kind of a marking point for me. i can see how something like that would be hindering to the sound of the snare. i will try the off center thing. with the reverb too. what devices would i use to accomplish that effect?
idk. i want that particular snare sample, but it just doesnt fit in with the music. i saw the suggestion that jordi gave above, and im gonna try that.
and i upped the middle frequency a lot
Sometimes I've tried a reverb pedal connected to the stereo enhancer pedal, to make the reverb wider in the stereo field. You can optionally precede this with a slope pedal set to high pass so that you only treat the mid-high frequencies and don't muddy the low end. You can use this chain on a centroid's send bus. That way you can reuse the same effect for other channels in various amounts.
kk