Drums in deep house

tintin2085 · Post by **tintin2085** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:02 pm

Hi all,

I want to know how the deep house producers (Agnes, Serafin, Bazz...) make the drums (snare, hi hats, claps, kicks...) in their productions.
I have tried to make this kind of drums but I finally make always hard sounds.

Anyone can help me ?

Thanks in advance,

primevil · Post by **primevil** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 8:05 pm

i want to make the 'exact sound of now' how do i do it? half of them have probs used samples anyway. there is so much stuff i'm hearing at the moment with sampled 'classic loops' it's untrue.

niminal · Post by **niminal** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:14 pm

Nothing like a classic 808 or 909 kick with Low EQ filter pass and a short compression gain on it ..

::BLM:: · Post by **::BLM::** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:51 pm

Just keep practising mate. The drums they are using are really simple...A lot of them just make simple beats, then put a loop behind to give it that extra bit. Baaz's drums are dead simple, just like his productions. The best things often come the easiest.

agodi · Post by **agodi** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:28 pm

I was listening to an Agnes set recently and I heard the same "Ahh" sample being used on about 6 different tracks!! I recognize the sample from a Vengeance Sample Pack so maybe you'll find what your looking for there

tintin2085 · Post by **tintin2085** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:38 pm

Thanks, guyz for your help

I'm not a big sample fan, I prefer creating my own stuff

But I will look for what the samples are proposing me

::BLM:: · Post by **::BLM::** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:09 am

tintin2085 wrote:Thanks, guyz for your help

I'm not a big sample fan, I prefer creating my own stuff
But I will look for what the samples are proposing me

I used to think like that, but you can get real creative when it comes to sampling and I'm talking about where you sample from. The likes of Theo Parrish, Moodymann etc... The original Detroit house don's... all sample, but creatively. There is a video on YouTube of Theo Parrish recording a vocalist under a bridge and basically him going round Detroit recording stuff… I just think that stuff there is proper deep…Lots of feeling gone into the way he makes music. Sampling often gets a bad rep cause you have all these sample packs avaible and people often forget that its more then just downloading a few ready made sample packs off the internet...

clubfoot · Post by **clubfoot** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:36 am

to expand on some of the above mentionings:

you have a programmed loop of drums (808/909 or whatever). Put a sample loop behind this from one of your favourite funk/disco tracks. Now experiment with a gate on the sample - sidechaining it with your programmed drums can give a nice compliment.

Go further and filter your sample loop etc. lo-pass the sample loop - you can often create your riff/groove this way which is very handy for turning a monotonous drum loop into the beginnings of a track.

Have fun