Re: Bestway to Get Tight Sounding Snare Sound?

[Scott]

First, if you are using the Avatar library, I would make sure there isn’t alot of snare in the room(s) or overhead channels. No matter how much you process a close mic channel, if there is alot of signal in the room/OH channels, it won’t make much of a difference. Make sure that you go into the bleed edit window for any room and OH channels and turn down the snare bleed. Not all the way down as it will make it sound weird, but enough so that any processing you do will make difference.

Then I would bus the 2 snare channels (top and bottom) to a stereo bus channel and insert a transient plugin. Turn up the ‘attack’ knob and turn down the ‘sustain’ knob until you get the tightness you want. Compress after that for some ‘splat’ and then eq after that.

Here is a before and after example:

http://www.rainbowsounds.com/Toontrack/Snare%20without%20Transient.mp3

http://www.rainbowsounds.com/Toontrack/Snare%20with%20Transient.mp3

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor