Production Techniques • Making Heavily Compressed Short Snares

So I'm a big fan of early electro house in the 2004-2006 era and whilst I'm well aware of Vengeance sample CDs being heavily used in that period, these sample CDs with snare hits were just rips of old electro house tracks - which included tight, snappy, long compressed snares to begin with. So this got me wondering, what did early tracks use back in the day, to get such a sound? Either its a sample, some processing, or both, but I definitely feel like I'm missing something. Maybe its a compression/limiting/gate question, but I've struggled to turn regular sounding snares into these kinds of ones.

Listen to the snares on these examples:
Alter Ego - Rocker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjPpoq1BUw8

Alter Ego - Rocker (Eric Prydz Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUeCQ2T2ALI

Cirez D (also Eric Prydz) - Punch Drunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp0Eu-lV3vw

Does anyone know what kind of snares are these even called? They all seem to "fit" perfectly as a tight, short, snappy sound and it almost sounds like the original snare was super long to begin with, and the producer trimmed it out. How might someone have done this back in the mid 2000s - perhaps elongating the sustain of a snare, lets say, to make it 1 bar long or something?

I'm aware of drenching snares in reverb to elongate them but this doesn't seem to get the result in the same way.

Statistics: Posted by Spartan138 — Fri May 17, 2024 9:35 pm — Replies 1 — Views 37

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