My Top 5 Drum Sounds for Producing Indie

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00:00 Intro: My Top 5 Drum Sounds
00:12 1. 80's Gated Snare Reverb
01:00 2. Slap Delay Snare Effect
01:46 3. Retro Colored Drum Break Sound
02:29 4. Swing Hi-Hat Pop Beat
03:09 5. The Thumpy Side-chained Kick
04:05 7 Step to a Killer Indie Song

[@antixdobrasil]

Great video. Here's a sub, mate

[@starsandguitars2050]

Super helpful. Thank you.

[@jorieangelomusic]

First Comment! Another helpful gem from you brother. Keep it up. :)

[@Remu-]

Good video, although I don't personally see a point ducking the hihats when the kick plays because their frequencies don't clash, one's high, one's low. You do however want to make your bass duck when the kick plays.

[@simbadean-ralphm8627]

Gives it more of a natural feel coz usually when drummers are playing the kicks they don’t tend to always play hihats at the same velocity

[@Remu-]

@@simbadean-ralphm8627 Except that you'd want to emphasize the hi-hat on the 1 and the 3 and real drummers definitely do that so I'm still gonna have to disagree, respectfully :)

[@jemzomaclain]

i find it gives a tighter more compressed feel, since standard sidechain compression would just duck everything anyway, which a lot of people like the sound of

[@user-ki3ez5br1t]

what size drums are the best and which do you use?

[@theindiemusiclab]

I don’t currently have the space to record acoustic drums, so I just use VST’s like Addictive Drums.
I don’t know what the best size is for drums, but I doubt there is a best size. Whatever gets you a drum sound that you think sounds cool… that’s the best one.