Best Big Snare Mixing Trick - How to easily get a roomy, wide snare that still packs a punch

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In this video David shows us a mixing trick to make your snare to sound big and deep with a wide stereo image and sound stage without losing punch. With this trick you can enhance every snare, making it hit hard and at the same time giving it depth and sustain.
Combining samples and processing like transients designers, reverbs and layering different sounds in a simple but effective way you can create big impact percussive sounds.
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[Erix]

Nice trick👊👊 gonna try this for sure👍👍

[showpony]

GREAT advice on how to get contrast and fatness into the snare. Awesome stuff.

[ВсеволодМинин-жж]

Man, I love your diction. For my bad English, it helps a lot

[krokmiten]

I like that! That could be useful for slower parts on my next album. Thanks for this David!

[ForTiorIJohnny]

awesome as always. question - how do you decide what reverb you want to use on different things? i often find myself fiddling for a long time with a bunch of different reverbs to find something that does what i´m hearing in my head, no matter if it´s for snares, guitars or vocals and what not.

[andyhardwickmusiccomposer]

Brilliant stuff. That's a nice track too!

[davejohnsonmusic]

This is reminds me of the Simon Phillips SPL snare trick.

[markwoodard]

Great video dave! I do not have spl transient designer, but I will try this with the elysia enveloper.

[Wourghk]

3 very excited people missed the like button on their way to trying this.

[StonethrownMusic]

Great vid. Thanks for the awesome tip as usual David. Question. Is this a prefader send?

[MASTRProductions]

Great video guys, loved this one. Keep it up!

[realraven]

Tasteful, thanks for sharing. I would say it is not super obivous for "Normal listeners". For snares, personally I am always tempted doing something really obvious and radical like Massive Attack but that's obviously very restricted to mostly experimental genres.

[Greenmantislives]

Hey David, is there a reason why the reverb is only at 70% or is that part of the trick? Absolutely love your tutorials man, keep up the amazing work!

[CornSw]

Hi Dave

I recently watched your video on compression vs limiting. Therefore I'm very curious about transient shapers/designers. In what situations would a transient designer be more preferable? I know you used it for a specific reason here in this video, but I would like to see a video (or just your thoughts) similar to the one you did on compression vs limiting.

Again, love your work. You rock!

Best regards

[halion]

i was trying to find one of your older videos, the one which dealt with kick plugins, but couldnt find it, have you deleted your older vids? btw awesome channel!

[BraveMusicOficial]

Could I apply this to the rest of the drums as well? Awesome job as always!

[WheelieMix]

Nice tricks !
Why not printing the parallel tracks when hardware are used ?
I use this a lot and it save me some time when doing some recall (but it's a bit more risky I have to agree).

[Bring_MeSunshine]

I can even hear the difference on my laptop speakers - incredible. You say you haven't found anything yourself that works as good as SPL TD plugin - understandably, it's a fantastic plugin, but one that's beyond my current budget, do you have any similar examples with other transient-shaper plugins? Another great vid, thanks

[robloyst]

Is there a link to the actual mix? I love the drums! Drum samples used?

[DeeKeyLP]

I found i can make stock snare sound good without samples, but it requires a ton of processing including transient shaping