How to Get the Snare Sound the Greatest Mixers Get

CLA, TLA, Bendeth, Korneff....Here are the building blocks on how to get THAT snare sound you always wished you could get and I'm making all of the samples available to YOU! Link is below. Pay what you want...ENJOY!
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Doc
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[@gisellechacon7081]

Watching all of these again. Not everything sinks in the first time, but after a while it all starts making sense. Thanks Doc!

[@jakeuggerud52]

I love layering samples of the classic LinnDrum from the 80s with modern drum library snare sounds. Parallel compression and layering are the keys to punchy modern drums.

[@BobbyHuff]

Good call Jake!

[@sisterscarletmusic]

We LOVE how your snare sound build came out for this song Doc!! It helped make this track HUGE for us... Coming out later this spring!! 🤘🤩

[@BobbyHuff]

Can’t wait for it to be released!

[@mcpribs]

Thank you for what you do for us! So informative, and beyond that, entertaining. You’re a beautiful human being!

[@mattdowning]

Thank you, Doctor. You’re a very generous man.

[@RobinZV1]

great samples, thanks for these!

[@TheRandalltex]

Your presentation is great & picking your brain is priceless for a noob like me. Thank you.

[@bjdarl24]

Great snare sound and tutorial. Thanks for sharing your invaluable knowledge Doc.

[@davebops2478]

Fascinating stuff Doc! I'm constantly amazed by how much effort you're prepared to go to to get exactly what you want - bravo you!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Dave! It's very tedious but very rewarding!

[@R0BL68]

Snare sounded great. The kick was even better !

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Rob.

[@HollywoodRecordingStudio]

Thank you Sumner for insisting on the posting of the samples :-)

[@treybruce9789]

good stuff

[@ShaneIrwin7]

Excellent! Kudos from Tanasi. Gonna watch more.

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Shane!

[@paulnagel8161]

I'm getting ready to start a new project and it NEEDS a great snare sound. Great timing!

[@BobbyHuff]

That’s great Paul!

[@JaviBello]

Downloading another sample for my Dr. Bob folder... thanks BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!!!! As always thank you!

[@BobbyHuff]

JAAAAAAV!!!! Thanks as always for watching. Enjoy the slamming snares!

[@JaviBello]

@@BobbyHuff sure!!!

[@TwoSouls-productions]

Hell yeah Doc …🔥

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks John!😊

[@treybruce9789]

got it!

[@michaelorr430]

Nice! Thanks for the layers!!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Michael!

[@chrislongo221]

Great information! Thank you as always for the amazing content! This really helps me as a producer/mixer/drummer/songwriter. Keep up the good work!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Chris!

[@toddscotdrumcovers2341]

Love it. When it come to the key of the song how would that impact the final snare sound? Do you tune to the root?

[@vaughanband]

Very good stuff, thanks!!!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Sam!

[@hyperactivists9390]

very helpful demo thx

[@BobbyHuff]

Glad it was helpful!

[@troxic4176]

I would just like to clarify, when you say make sure the samples are "phase aligned," do you mean having them hit together in time where the phases line up?

[@BobbyLouxMusic]

Thanks doc! Great info and gracious heart! Will you be doing an opinion video on the looming Atmos industry changing standard? seems we’re starting to see the doomsday scenario videos posted regarding Apply Play and now Spotify declaring all submissions must be mixed in atmos! Seems like it could put small time independent artists out of the new “standard” how will you navigate that as a mixer? Massive Atmos studio upgrades? Always appreciate your work!!!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Bobalouie! I’m keeping my eye on Atmos and what it all means…not sure yet exactly what the future holds but I’ll def do a video on it when things become clearer.

[@heartshinemusic]

Hey Bobby, great video. I wonder, do you make a sample of the snare sound when you construct these combinations. Might be handy to make some samples of maybe a few combinations for other projects / songs. I used SSD4 with the great Chris Lord Alge pack for a while, but I like the programming features of EZdrummer (and the sound of Toontrack's Randy Staub's Rock Solid extension.) So, I'm considering making easy samples of the SSD4 snare and kick layers and combine those with EZdrummer. I also turn off or lower the volume of extra samples in (mellower) verses, to make the choruses stand out more. In verses, the massive snare can sound a bit ridiculous sometimes when there are no or less loud guitars.

[@BobbyHuff]

Yes all good ideas. I gave out all the layers to the snare here as I had them but wanted everyone to be able to tweak them and make their own snare. Once you have the sound YOU like you could bounce that and only deal with the bounced snare without all the layers.

[@mattwinegar527]

Great video Bobby. In songs with real drums, are you using Cubase's Audio to MIDI to create a single MIDI file trigger all the samples with? Back in the day I would use Drumagog and print many samples for blending, but if you even bumped the threshhold .2db on one instance of drumagog the phase and timing would get REAL weird. Also, the great thing about Cubase is the easily accessible time nudge for every track. So easy to bump a sample track back a millisecond if necessary without shifting the audio file. Anyway, I enjoyed the video. Thanks.

[@BobbyHuff]

Hey Matt. Yes I’m using the Cubase audio to midi and I’ve never found ANYTHING more accurate. I still go through and listen just to be sure but it’s usually 98-100% dead on.

[@richo8767]

For all of the samples available through donation, do you have previews somewhere?

[@BobbyHuff]

Yes! They are all previewed in the videos.

[@treybruce9789]

yo Bob, I made 2 donations for the link to these sounds but the App store says there is no app to open it. Suggestions? peace&thanks

[@Fred_Free]

I think the snare drum is too big, "dark" and separated from the rest of the sound. It doesn't fit in.

[@BobbyHuff]

Agree to disagree! 😊

[@Fred_Free]

@@BobbyHuff Could you then explain why the snare drum should have such a big, dominant and dark sound in this mix?

[@BobbyHuff]

@@Fred_Free what you aren’t hearing is the most important part of the song. The vocals. A snare that’s big and fat like this doesn’t get in the way of the vocals. This is key to a big snare.

[@andrewutz3674]

It’s definitely a stylistic choice which works for certain songs. not every song works with this kind of snare, but that isn’t what the doc is saying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@f-unfairstudiotime]

Good video, very well explained, as usual! That's the way to choose samples, and especially true about the phase alignment. 👍 Not sure if I'd call this kind of proceedings "the perfect rock snare", though: the problem with most these examples on YT is that they use fake drums, all programmed, so there's no augmenting a good recording of a real, actual snare and drummer with carefully layered samples, but just sample-building a fake snare - which, at least to my ears, instead of sounding like a ballsy drumkit with personality well beefed up ends up sounding like a puffed up drum machine with no personality or variation and an overbearing presence. Of course it cuts through the mix, no prob, but... in a kinda sad, unsatisfying way. Some kind of commercial sound standards or standardized sonic pancaking may seem to call for that, but rock is actually about something else. The excellent mixing engineers cited, CLA, TLA, David Bendeth (and I'd add people like the great Andy Wallace or JJP) usually have someone's actual drum sound to begin with, and by their own well reported admission they try to preserve it if it's any good, and with it preserve & present the drummer's/band's personality as much as possible, even not using samples whenever feasible, or just barely mixing them in. All of the above in my opinion & experience, of course. AF

[@BobbyHuff]

Yes all a good point and you can, and should, use this to augment a real snare. That being said,other than the Foo Fighters, I rarely hear a snare on active rock radio that isn’t mostly, if not all, samples.

[@tfbattag]

​@@BobbyHuff Doc....when would you say the trend started? I'm not fighting it, but just for the challenge I have a quest to try and be able to get a great snare sound w/o samples. I think of Steward Copeland, Neil Peart's Slingerland (Paul Northfield I believe), Alex VH, etc. I loved your Jeff Lynne videos and Mutt Lange. Any chance you would ever do one on AVH or NP's early snare sounds? Thanks for sharing so much with all of us!

[@BobbyHuff]

@@tfbattag Hey Tom. Triggering samples started in the early 80s. I know Steely Dan did it on their Gaucho album and that was recorded in 1978-1980. I was there for the mix of the Heart song "All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You," and they were triggering a snare on that song long before Pro Tools. I love all the snare sounds of the players you mentioned and would love to do videos on them. AVH snare has always had a special place in my heart. Rick Beato did a great video on it. Go check it out.

[@callbackdons]

Question: Is this basically demonstrating how someone would go about making a sample of their own snare, so that they might use it in their own mixes as opposed to the raw recording of the snare? In any case, cool video and thanks for the free tracks!

[@BobbyHuff]

Hey Elijah. Yes this is a good method on listening to different samples and how they all play a part in making an over all huge sound. If you have a live snare you van also do this to enhance the sound of the live drum which is what all of your favorite mixers and producers do with just a very few exceptions.

[@michaelparson-mcnamara782]

Tonight on "the Secrets of the pyramids" with Dr Bob! Well, now I know I was only 1/8th the way to a great snare drum, maybe!! LOL You've revealed this secret! So what DO you use to align them all?

[@BobbyHuff]

Haha! Thanks Michael. These are already aligned. Just import them into your project on different tracks and they are ready to go. Copy and paste….or…. You can put them all in a sampler and play them in your track.

[@michaelparson-mcnamara782]

@@BobbyHuff I understood that they were. I meant in general....

[@BobbyHuff]

@@michaelparson-mcnamara782 if you mean phase alignment then make sure the beginning of all the snares starts with either an upward or downward “slope.” They all need to be the same. The ones that are different you need to flip the phase by either using a plugin or on some DAWS there is a phase button on the channel strip.

[@michaelparson-mcnamara782]

@@BobbyHuff Ah That's how I do it. I figured you had a better/more serious method. Thanks!

[@MrRadioMusic]

I see a lot of energy on each track (when you show EQ) down around 20-40hz. Will you go back and roll that off to save energy space down there?

[@BobbyHuff]

Absolutely!

[@Andybaby]

Q: I'm using headphones (cheap sennheiser hd202)- am I the only one who could barely hear a difference? ps. could all this have been done w eq alone?

[@BobbyHuff]

Barely hear a difference in what? You could never eq a snare to sound like this without all these sources…

[@Boleskinebeatz]

WTF?!

[@kaislivesoundchannel4706]

Amazing snare. However, if you work for clients, they usually expect you to get a great snare sound out of what they send you. I still most of the time use samples to thicken it up and trigger the reverb.

[@FrancisFleuronas]

I generally dislike how sampled snares sound in a song. The dynamics are never as deep or satisfying

[@BobbyHuff]

You can just place the sample with the loud 2 and 4 hits and leave all of the ghost notes alone. Works great and keeps dynamics.

[@hethaerto1]

Why would a big-time engineer/mixer who has access to multi-million dollar studios and the best session players around utilize samples for drum tracks? Sampled drum sounds are good enough for demos not commercial music. I'm sick of fake drums.

[@josephr519]

I mean, they do... to supplement an acoustic snare from the tracking session. They all do it, especially in a song like this.