INSTANTLY Better Hi-Hats With These 3 Tricks

[@pickyourselfofficial]

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[@Andrii-pw5nk]

Cool approach to layer the samples via sampler, thank you for sharing! Quick tip: if you want to add more randomness with vocoder (yeah, it really sounds nice on hats and snares) but preserve more of the original sound - you can group up the vocoder (cmd+g), then open "chains" tab on this group, and create another chain without the effects. Then you can adjust the levels of each chain by your taste. It's called parallel processing if I'm not mistaken :)

[@pickyourselfofficial]

What a great addition to this workflow, thanks for sharing! 💯🙌🏻

[@VibeSynthetic]

Agree with the layering. a little bit of sound design in our sequence goes a long way. nice vid!

[@a3igner]

Oh learnt a lot. I didn't know u could layer sounds like that. I was thinking using a drum rack to achieve the same. this is so much easier! also I guess Shifting the midi just ever so slightly instead of a 1/16 or so is also a way to spice it up. so that all the HH dont land exactly on the same spot. is there a way to use the LFO to modulate the position of each MIDI note back and forth?

[@nivgorsky6124]

Thank you for this important information! I have one question - how much should the hats be panned (before the processing chain)? or should they be in the centre?

[@naxx909]

I really like learning about "zone" in sampler, and the different hi-hats in different notes, thank you and keep it up

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Awesome, so good to hear that you’ve learned something! 💯

[@harryandrews3347]

Great vid man, im struggling to get humanised feel on open hats, going yo try frequency shifter! Great idea

[@lfakroll]

Great vid as always(: I like adding a rhythmic gate that emulates a hi-hat groove to my background noise, that way I can automate the depth of the gate to change the sound during the track

[@seb6690]

Good work and content !

[@ALifeTheKidd]

Yeah the H-Hat 2 Layers gives it a Nice bounce to the Track vs the Standard H_Hat Programming... Good stuff will use this when layering Claps , C Hats, Shakers..

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Awesome, glad you got something out of this!

[@DeepOfcl]

just the video i was looking for. thanks bro

[@screendrem]

I've studied a lot of great dance mixes and that vocoder noise trick will help the eq curve fit more in line with some of my favorites. REALLY great tips! Also also the SSL 9000 J smart man! Subscribed.

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Awesome, what a pleasure to read this!

[@theycallmekayjay]

Love your videos!

[@hannawoube5126]

Always amazing :)

[@VentureNW]

Picked up on something here, that you mentioned. You don't always cut the low end. I completely understand this, say under 350Hz, but with the limited low frequency range, say under 120Hz, would you cut anything that isn't sub/kick, to avoid muddiness? I have seen about 10 different answers to this and as a mastering engineer, I am curious as to your thoughts. Thank you!

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Great question! I think you’ll get the most detailed and nuanced answer on EQing and when/how to cut things in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y52uk3Srps6Mprcsi=ANa0nv2nwT_yfF8n

[@manfreofc]

Corpus is crazy, I use it all the time to build grooves and also on basslines...Another trick with vocoder is to decrease the bands, that gives you sharper sounds

[@pickyourselfofficial]

It's SO good!

[@Cytasis]

Wie immer ein gutes Tutorial! Wäre aber schön wenn du auch darauf eingegangen wärst, wie man hi-hats im mix platziert. Trotzdem daumen hoch :)

[@kafkakos3618]

Great video once again. How about a video doing syncopated claps? Or on syncopation in general.

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Ahh, nice idea! Thanks, I’ll put it on my list :)

[@roymitchell5894]

Thank you!

[@pickyourselfofficial]

My pleasure! 💯

[@PedraLostChops]

Loved it!

[@pickyourselfofficial]

❤

[@dandemanseyonara2422]

Really great content! It be cool though to see how to achieve the final result with ableton stock plugins only:-)

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Yeah, I think I’ll try to do a full mix walkthrough with only stock plugins just to show that it’s totally doable:)

[@julesdrums6167]

You rock man. Nice.

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Thanks a million for the kind words!

[@jordanl6620]

Couldnt you just use a drum rack and load multiple samples

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Yes, you totally could!

[@tol.M_ngo]

Eine Frage: Was sind das für verrückte Kopfhörer, die du aufhast??? Die würdest du sicherlich auch empfehlen, richtig? :) THX!

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Audeze LCD-X. Hab mit denen letztes Jahr 3 Monate ohne festes Studio von der Toskana aus professionelle Mixes und Masters für meine Kunden erstellt. Sind brutal gute Kopfhörer.

[@tol.M_ngo]

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[@pickyourselfofficial]

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[@julians7785]

nice content!

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Thanks, I really appreciate it!

[@thebarnowlsmusic]

Audeze LCD X

[@npawelczyk]

just curious, why is it a bad idea to filter out the lows on a channel if not necessary? thx for the tips BTW, I've subscribed!

[@pickyourselfofficial]

Watch out for the next video on EQ mistakes (coming soon), I’ll explain exactly that in all detail. The short version: there isn’t an immediately audible downside, it’s more of a bad habit that (in sum on many channels) can deteriorate the fidelity of your sound. That being said, sometimes the “low cut every channel” philosophy can lead to clearly audible issues, for example if you cut something away that adds character. Example: many producers cut percussion tracks at 300Hz. But many snare drums and claps have a lot of their fundamental notes (and therefore energy) down there. This leads to a weaker percussion section. Let me know if that was helpful!

[@npawelczyk]

@@pickyourselfofficial very informative and helpful, thank you!! i have been making this mistake on claps/snares for sure... will avoid in the future. thanks!

[@davidcache]

​​​​@@pickyourselfofficial you shouldn't be teaching these things, you barely know what your talking about. A good reason not to cut all of the low-end using a high pass filter is ringing and pre-ringing. There are no wrong answers in mixing but its important to note that having a steep cut leads to ringing. In fact, a steep low cut on a signal result in an increase in volume most times, because of the ringing added to the signal. This happens even more for linear phase eq's. Pre-ringing, like all anomalies of audio; could be applied in a way that compliments the music. Audio is a gray area, anyone promoting blanket rules to their mixes has no business teaching audio production.

[@pickyourselfofficial]

@@davidcache that’s exactly what I’m saying in several videos. Including the upcoming one on EQs, so calm down. Without the unnecessary hate, your comment would have been a useful contribution.

[@produsirrmusic]

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[@pickyourselfofficial]

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[@kenbrady119]

As usual, you omit all of the set-up. I'm learning and want to follow along. Where do I start? No clue, because you don't share that.

[@pickyourselfofficial]

This video aims at producers who already know some sound design that gets them to this point. For them, this is the perfect starting point and it would be tedious to go through all of the setup. But don’t worry, I take the feedback seriously and will also do some more sound design tutorials that start from scratch. It’s impossible to cater to every group in every video. I have to choose and I hope you can understand that.

[@goshaivanov9116]

activate your windows

[@PianomanMusic96]

Not exactly tricks or secrets though. Standard recording techniques that people have done for decades.