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Hey guys! This is Chris from mixdownonline.com. Today I want to show you how to get a big
fat drum sound using trigger to plug in from Steven Slate. Let's get to it.
So now I just opened an old session that I recorded a few years ago, so let's listen to what we have.
Okay cool, so this is actually the original sound recording without any compression EQ
whatsoever. So what I want to do here is work on the snare and the kick drum. I tend to
find the snare a bit thin and dead, and I'm not crazy about the kick drum sound as well,
so let's beef the sound up a bit, only by working with the kick drum and the snare drum
by using the sound replacement technique. So trigger 2 will be my way to go plug in
to do so. I will first work on my kick drum. And I'm going to find a very nice sample that
is going to help us to beef up that sound. So first, I'm going to duplicate the track
and I am going to name this track 'trigger.' Alright trigger base drum And I'm gonna
go and insert the plug in. I'm going to put this in solo and I'm going to load some samples.
So I'm going to use that sound- drum sound bank, which I like a lot. These guys are amazing,
they produce nice samples. So I am going to go into the preset folder. Because they already
have some presets for trigger. I am going to use the kicks folder here and I am going
to load a few kick drums, so lets start with this one.
Alright, now the beauty of Trigger,
is you can actually load up to eight samples! So you can have up to 8 samples playing at
the same time, if you want. You don't have to, but you know, you have the freedom to
do it. So you can mix that with some room sounds and a dry sounds, whatever you want.
and let's try this one as well, so I have the 3 kick drums. Okay... Now I am going to
go into the transferring section and I'm going to start by playing the track. So I'm going
to bring the detail *** down, just so it catches all of the transcends of the kick
drum. Okay that's good, there are a lot of other options I can play with in trigger.
But I'm not going to cover them all in this tutorial, except for the gate option, which
is pretty cool. So there's a gate that you can activate directly on trigger. So perfect,
so we have our kick drum. Let's blend this with the original kick. And to see how it
sounds. Okay, so now we have a phase problem. So let's fix that. Let's go back into trigger.
So there's a phase option here, you cn reverse the phase by clicking on this phase button
right here. So I'm going to reverse the phase out of these three samples. So let's listen.
Perfect! So that sounds - That's way better, so let's look for this down a bit. Alright
so now lets work on the snare drum. You know what, even before that, we're going to add
some room to kick drum.So to do that. What I'm going to do is I'm going to use trigger
again and load some room samples. But I want my room samples to be stereo, so I'm going
to create an effects sand channel. And load trigger out of that channel. So I'm going
to rename that track - Trigger Kick and Room. There we go! And I'm going to load a few room
samples upon the same sound bank. So let's use this Okay, I really like this one so,
I'm gonna load an overhead sample and two room samples. Perfect! So let's go back into
the triggering section. And let's send our kick drum to that channel. Make sure it's
activated. And select the trigger kick room effects channel and make sure when you send
a signal, that you send it pre-fader, because when you're going to be playing with your
base drum's fader, you don't want it to effect the amount of signal send to the effects track.
So let's have a listen.Let's bring down the detail ***. Okay, let's keep this away, for
now. I'm gonna work on my snare drum, so let's listen to the snare by itself, so for this
one, I'm gonna use a technique here with trigger and I am going to first create let's go and
create an effects channel track. Like we just did for the kick drum. Load Trigger 2, rename
that as Snare. And I am going to use a pre-set that I worked on a few hours ago. So in that
pre-set I loaded three different dry snare sounds. And an overhead mic, and a room, two
room samples. And so let's send that to the trigger snare effects channel. So on this
part we have some snare hits that are very low in volume, so trigger has a hard time
to read them and in this case we need to bring down the detail *** a bit. So by bringing
that detail *** lower, trigger is able to detect all the kick-drums we recorded in these
snare microphones, that are in the recording, which is not good, because we don't want trigger
to be replacing these hits with the snare sample. First I can actually activate a gate.
So let's bring that up a bit. So this is actually where I can hear the ghost notes. Nice, so
that sounds pretty good, so let's try something else lets try to work with the fresh option
here, okay? So for that to work, I'm gonna need to send a kick directly into the snare
trigger plugin okay, so this way, trigger will read that kick drum and basically remove
it. Throughout all the kick hits that were recorded in the snare microphone are not going
to be triggered and that trigger will not replace these hits with snare samples. okay,
if that makes any sense. So let me show you. What I need to do is to go back here on my
kick drum and send the signal to that effects trigger snare channel that I created for the
snare. So then I'm going to have to pan that signal to the far right, So it goes directly
into the second input channel of trader. And for the snare drum, I am going to need to
make sure that the signal is band to the far left, so it goes into the first input channel
of trigger. So now if I go and open my plug in. Notice that the kick drum will open to
the second input on the right side and the snare on the first input, which is the left
side input of trigger. So there you go! So whatever comes into the second channel of
trigger, the right side channel, will be suppressed if I bring the suppressed *** up. So let's
try it, So there you go! No I can actually bring the detail *** lower so we can catch
all of the transience of the snare drum. Alright so now I can play with the amount of snare
and kick that I want. Alright so now if I find that there is not a lot of room. I can
add more room by playing with the room level, here. So at this stage, when I am happy with
the sound, what I usually do is I go and bounce all the overhead and the room samples into
a stereo track, and then I do the same with the snare and then I bounce, into a mono-track,
this time and this way I can have separate control over the tracks and treat them differently
if I need to. So now let's go back and listen to what we had at first, compared to what
we have now. Alright and let's listen to what we have right now. So cool. So now we have
a brand new drum sound only by blending the original kick drum with the example. And by
replacing the snare drum with the snare sample, and all of this before the actual mix, so
before adding Compression. At this point you can actually experiment more if you want to,
you can blend the original snare signal with the snare sample, so feel free to do whatever
you want. I hope that helps, don't forget to subscribe and leave some comments if you
want to reach me, go onto mixdownonline.com thanks for watching, see you next time!