Hey y'all,

I'm working to make some new electro tracks with a dance-vibe. I'm wondering what your favorite effects are to put on drums....???

I've found that distortion sounds great when using a lower drive level. Efx 12 (Compressor, I think) also makes them real punchy, but too much attack and sustain can ruin them, I feel. Reverb and delay both sound great. The filter sounds sick when sowly increasing the c-frq and res and the tape echoe while turning up knob 2. I use Isolator often just to add volume.

What do you guys think is the best effect or combination of effects to put on the drums to make them sound big and fat and sexy?

The compressor definitely, but i noticed that the compression on the 555 had alot of air. Like it never releases. But on the 808 its perfect, nice and thick and you can turn the attack all the way down and set the release to like 50 and its like a sidechain compression when you rock your drums with the samples.
Dont sleep on the phaser effect. Theres one preset on the 808 that sounds great. You can turn down jet-like sound that makes phasing all weird. Ends up sounding like a reverb without the decay.
Lo-Fi if you like it.
But more than often i compress, eq, then compress again. Then ill chop the break, filter the kick and take some of the low out of the snare. band pass my hats then compress em again to bring out anything i might have fucked up.

I also like the center canceler on my drums if they are too dominant against the samples, just to push em back a bit. Then compress the shit out of that too.
You get where im going with this:)

ttp://www.futureproducers.com/forums/p ... de-226524/

Check this out too.

bit reducer(lo fi) compression,& a little reverb

Hey man that link isn't working...

The compressor is def great on drums. I'll check out using the phaser as I haven't really experimented with that one.

voice transformer on kick drums is one i remember reading about when i first signed up here, worked good, haven't used it in a while though, probably not appropriate for all kicks, but if i remember it can help to fatten up the lower end of a kick that might be lacking it

http://www.futureproducers.com/forums/p ... de-226524/

My bad.

i just tried it and you're right it works. knob 1 at 12 o'clock. knob 2 and 3 all the way up to max. definitely thicker and louder. it sounds phased if knob 1 isn't exactly at 12 o'clock though.

radio tuning is dope for thickening stuff too--with all knobs all the way down to zero

fuck yeah, its kinda like a different compression effect when you use it like that, sometimes i put it across everything as opposed to vinyl sim, has to be the right samples though, can make a kick (or any serious bass) boom way too hard, i used it on a track a while back and i found that it helped to kinda cover up some of the serious static i had on the sample i was using, i haven't played with it in a while though, i'll have to try resampling all sorts of single samples through it to see how it effects different pieces of a whole, could be appropriate for certain filtered basslines that might not be coming through cause they weren't as prominent or strong in the original sample

for drums i most often use

-djfx (detune)
-Compressor
-Bit Crash
-Filter Drive
-Isolator

You forgot SubSonic !!!

lately i like using chorus on a 'slow' setting for making hihats sound stereo-y