How to Sound Design Drums LIKE A GOD

In this video I'm showing you how you can sound design epic drums yourself. I'm describing a structure of a drum sound, ways to sound design, I give you tips and tricks, I show you what effects to use and how to post process.

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[Shankerz_Golf]

ADVICE TO NEW PRODUCERS: It’s easy to want instant gratification, but you have to understand that your music won’t always be great. And TIME is the most important thing. Keep going. My music 5 years ago sounds so much worse then what I make today. But that change wasn’t overnight. So when you look back after years of working, you will be impressed with yourselves I promise. Just keep going!

[hey_maurice]

Easily the best drum sound design explanation I’ve EVER seen. Awesome work, yo!

[jacksonlaframboise]

For me, drums are kinda the chillest thing to make. You really just need the transients and body. So like, go into the mix and go “tss” and cut it so it’s hella short. Than go “buh” and shorten that down so the two sound natural together. Than like distort it a bit. After that chain, make the thinnest band pass at the hey of the kick, and like side chain it to the attack. Export. Take the consolidated layer, and make it as short as humanly possible, without loosing that little bit of audible sub. Do this later in the track making process; use a random kick as a fancier click track and swap it out when you are ready. Than make it loud as ballz…..not like clipping and stuff. Maybe a soft clipper to prevent that, but have the rest of the track side chained and relatively quieter than the kick. Cuz, tbh, a kick is only as loud as the rest of the elements are relatively quiet or short. Also, speaking of Steve Duda, just do all this shiz in serum. Or, I dunno. Samples are usually pretty nice. Just, make em work with your song. You can take tails from one kick and glue em to another transient, than strap a whole different body to that bad boi to get a Frankenstein kick. But, to me, the cymbals are the hardest thing to sound natural. Like, bro. They are either thin, muddy, or sibilant af. Snares have been earlier since I’ve basically started treating em like kicks, but add 200-300hz. Also, high frequency reverb to short kicks is a cool thing to mess with. Buuut, imo, the initial click is the most important bit to get right. Its loudness, main frequency and length shape soooo much of the character. As with a snare, I find the body the most insane part. Slap a cmb- filter and a soft clipper to that boi and tune it, and you get some metallic fricken riddim or death metal thing. Swap that with a chilled out loose, warm noise and it’s instantly jazzier. Well nvmd. In the first one, the peak at like 2000-4000 ish hz is more aggressive on the attack sometimes. But still. It’s basically “kaaah” vs “ceh” but in a bass, it can be “boom” “toom”…”voom” …hard style be like, “tongue click sound with 7 layers of saturation and monster energy drink added.” ….just switch up the initial constant and you can see the different the initial click makes. But, it’s really all important. This is just my opinion on what makes the most drastic of changes. Like, If you make a kick and pitch it down like 2 octaves, it’ll sound pretty weird….but I’m not gonna get into why that is atm. Basically, imagine what pitching down a kick does, you you’ll just imagine how it sounds. It goes from “boom” to “vO0oOmuh”. Actually. Just watch the vid. I dunno what I’m even tryna get at here.

[ale]

Straight to the point, brimming with information, innovative and very well paced. I genuinely could not have asked for a better tutorial. Thanks very very much. Been exceptionally frustrated with drums after returning from a long hiatus in music production so this is a huge help.

[Chanslam]

Damn even as an experienced producer this video is incredibly helpful and laid out in such a great way

[Sinner]

I feel like Oversampled is a true giga Chad who just loves music and wants to share his passion and business. Its a crime he doesn't have millions of subscribers tbh.

[jfklmk]

This video format is amazing ! Great work ! <3

[apoplexiamusic]

One thing that i prefer over limiting for drums is clipping. It can be soft or hard clipping, but that makes a big impact on the drums, makes them incredibly loud and retains punch, whereas most often limiting will squash the transients and the drums will sound weak. That depends on your limiter of course.

[prx]

Guy !!! This went from simple genius to advanced genius in moments! Thanks for continuing to share, you transform our careers.

[gasmaskestore]

Hands down the best drum design video I've ever seen, been producing semi-profesionally for 7 years and there are always new things to learn, you have a follower for life dude, legend.

[TROYVIXIOUS]

This is the ultimate drum production video ever period

[yodimetarado]

Incredibly creative and clear tutorial! One of the best I’ve seen in a long time. Cannot wait to fire up Ableton and try these techniques. I’m also pleased to see someone of your enlightened production caliber using Thermal and Portal, I throw them on practically everything, it makes me feel like maybe I’m actually on the right track after years of playing around. Looking forward to more of your content!

[into.cassette]

You've earned the right to call yourself Oversampled with these sound design skills. 🔥 Killing it! 🙌

[quantum.]

This video has helped me see with eyes unclouded. Thank you for being direct and to the point with this too!

[prodo]

i dabbled in sound designing before and id say im pretty good at pre made drum manipulation and even synthetic sound design but the first 2 minutes of this video gave me information that i desperately needed and i didnt even know it. this helped so much man i cant thank u enough

[irony]

Great. I want to see your arrangements for your drums when you make a dubstep track or your buildup before the drop. You got them good build ups sir

[maxheumann]

Finally a youtuber giving awesome tips and in a fast way, not puting sht content to make you stay in the video for 20 mins. THANKS!

[HappytreeLuis]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial!
I wish you recorded in 4K so we can see the DAW UI more clearly, though.

[heresruncol]

Wow! i think that your video gave me much ideas! I wasn't thinking in this way at all while sound-designing my drums and i ignored so much important things!
So many thanks to you, so much! This video will change so much things i my workflow! THANK YOU!

[blendr]

thanks for making this detailed video about it!