Loops

[Khazul]

Originally Posted by nvisibl

I've always programmed my own drums and find it easier to mix and apply effects and so on to each individual drum hit. Recently though I have been playing around with some loops and thinking about incorporating them into my sound. Though right now i'm thinking that I will loose much of that control over mixing/effecting with loops rather than individual hits and that it may not work out so great.

Whats your take on this, and how do you yourself incoporate drumloops into your mixes?

Cheers

It depends what tool your using. Reason v3 is ideal for this as you can set up a step sequencer to drive CV to EQ and other fx and so redically change the loop, or just do subtle stuff like panning different sounds from a mono loop, and gating in reverb onto a specific snare hit for eg.

Im from your school of drum mixing (from mixing up drum kits ages ago) - processing each drum sound separately into separate tracks. This is another reason I tend to do my drums mostly in Reason as its easy to apply this level of control.

The biggest problem I find with loops is that they are usually processed and squashed to hell to the point of being more or less dead - can take quite a bit of work to breath life back into them.