3 Ways To Get Punchier Tighter Tech House Drums

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In today's tutorial, we will be going over 3 ways to get your drums to sound punchier and tighter. The 3 ways we will be achieving this are Fades, Compression, and Gating. Fades will help us shape the sound to sound punchier/tighter without messing too much with any plugins. Compression can help add color to the sound while shaping the dynamics by compressing with a high attack and ratio. Finally, Gate can help by shortening the sample and getting drum loops to feel tighter by shortening the time span between transients removing remove and unnecessary information.

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[lachlanc]

Using LFO tool while compressing is genius, thanks King

[rebazkh]

Also drum bus is a great tool inside Ableton for tighter drums.

[landerzan]

So is this also good to do if you are making trap/hip hop beats?

[nikku]

Yo Zen, got any tutorials on how to process 909 kicks to get a good modern tech house kick sound (like John Summit, Fisher, etc)? They have these nice clean stompy sounding kicks that punch. In all these sample packs and all these videos I see of people processing kicks, all I hear are these terrible clicky ass kicks.

[tommykimpton]

hey ninja, can you consider doing a swing\groove tutorial (mpc, logic)on drums, bassline and synths vid pls, been waiting on a good one like this from you

[bigblackbawlz]

I was just looking up tutorials on this brother! Thanks man

[kliran.bkaram]

Hey zen, Would love to see you do more tutorials on anjunadeep style and more deep and chill stuff like nora en pure, enamour, einmusik and similar artists
Thank you

[SKOUNDRLofficial]

Yo Zen, any way you could do a video on how to make something similar to Honey and Badger- Walifornia baseline? That bass is dirty af and I’ve noticed that style is getting popular and want to learn so I can put my own spin on it. Thanks in advance brotha, appreciate everything you do!

[downhillk]

I use gates on my drum bus with a LONG release, it kinda just makes everything’s volume affect everything else.
Like there’s usually a fast shaker or closed hat that’s not loud enough to set off the gate, but the kick, snare, and other percussion setting off the gate gives the hat more movement

[kulhman]

Congrats on almost 100k unread e-mails!

[helderpoxes]

Hey Zen, what's that beat you've been playing on the background? Bananas!

[alife]

is this like using ADSR on the Simple/Sampler

[antonblam]

2:37 man not everyone watching you using ableton

[synnek_music]

what song is playing at the background at the start of the video ?

[CHOKSTARmusic]

Yo Zen, I am just suggesting. I know you have Soothe. You can give TBPro DSEQ a try, it is way cheaper than Soothe and if you compare them, that way, your loyal followers will have a comprehensive knowledge about both Soothe and DSEQ. Also, 03:17, a better way for actual make up gain is using TBPro AB_LM. I know, I sound like I am a marketing guy from TBPro, but after using two three of their plugins, I am a fan of them. Do check at least these two.

[viktoronopko]

Not bad. But liked how it sounded before. Maybe in context it's still better. Dunno. 🤷‍♂️

[funkytaco]

You've got those medical marijuana eyes bro.