Psytrance Hi-Hats (Top End) Drums Section | Structure & Processing 

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Well yes. Kick and bass are way harder to set up. As dealing with low frequencies is way complicated because of their nature. Hi-hats and snare cover much smaller parts of a track, and also are in high frequencies so it’s much easier to set them up!

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Depend from what you want to create. Hi-hats are the best from certain noise oscialtors, drum machines etc. whike snare you can do with Serum and other synts, even the hi-hats.

I don’t think it’s nonsense, everybody has their way of working. In my case, that is not possible, as each sound requires different reverb settings to get the best out of it. For example, high-pitch sounds and low sub-impact cannot have the same reverb settings, as they won’t have the same effect.

@@EClipChannel Thanks alot, that makes sense! Wish you a great festival summer!

I would use it for other occasions, not for the hi-hats. I love limiting or saturating hihts. I use a lot of enveloping shaper, which is a Cubase transient shaper integrated into channel strip.

​@@EClipChannelwhy not? 😃

What would you like me to show you? Peaks? RMS? Talking about levels in number does not have any sense, especially for hi-hats. it will depend on the shape of the hi-hat. How loud is the transient, body, and type of hi-hat, is it a sharp one or a shaker one? It doesn't have the sense to talk in numbers. Mixing needs to be done by ears!

@@EClipChannel It was important for me to relate the drums in their entirety (hat, OH, snare etc.) only to the K&B group. sorry, I didn't specify, but Marko's answer given by you is already sufficient. I send to the whole family Best wishes from Poland!

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I didn’t notice latency. Not sure which DAW you use, but I know that Ableton has a huge issue with latency and delay compensation.

@@qilinpsy how do you measure hi-hats? How loud is the transient? There is no way you can measure and use math to level anything! It must be done by the ears.

@@qilinpsy beside that, I wouldn’t know how loud your hi-hats should be in particualr track. Some tracks sound better with less hi-hats, some sound better with louder ones. It all depends from your taste, desire and need!

Mostly there's one hi-hat on bounced with the kick. The hi-hat becomes a part of the kick. As pitched sinewave only somehow always sound terrible on the high frequencies and this way I cover that bad sounding part of the kick!

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I believe you already asked for that? And I have replayed already that you should search on youtube “glide bassline e-clip”

@@EClipChannel i dont remember if i did, but thank you for answering. i ll check it out. sorry if i didnt see it before. greetings from brazilian psytrance music

@@EClipChannel i checked out, and yes ! i watched that video, thank you. im starting a new music and want to try a differente nice sound offbeat for that one.

@@archdelic ok sorry then, as I got same comment from someone few days ago!

Hi-hat in the key??? Hi-hats cannot be in any key! If we talk about standard hi-hat that is most likely made of noise and noise cannot be tonnal.

Wow, indeed. My bad!

For “ducking effect” mostly LFO Tool

@@EClipChannel so you're not sending another channel as side chain input?

@@martinnitram4077 nah, i use sidechain in different way, not for the sidchain compression.

No! Transients and peaks are part of the hi-hat waveform, you can bring the volume up or down with the fader only of the whole sample, and it will not change the shape. With clipper, saturation, or limiter, the waveform will be changed! When I say peaks, I mean on the peak of the hi-hat or the transient, not on the measurement unit!

@@molandsonsmotors9690 if you want to EQ the hi-hats then yes. If you want to reduce the transients, then use a plugin that is doing that!

@@EClipChannel in ableton I can automate the volume for just the peaks in an audio clip to level the waveform and when I render it the resulting waveform sounds much better than what the saturater,clipper or limiter does.

@@truthbetold2012 that’s an envelope, not the automation in Cubase, and yes, you can do that on individual elements, but it will not glue a bunch of channels to sound as one. Also, it is easier to use a clipper or limiter than writing the automation or changing the envelope shape on each channel. Imagine you “automate” the transient on 6 channels, and then you realize you didn’t do enough or you did too much. You would need to change the shape on all of them again. While with a limiter/clipper, you just need to change 1 knob and you are done.

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