Don't know if you've resolved this yet, but I have some suggestions that may help. You may have already tried things along these lines but if not, here ya go......wether your using the original break or not..
First try cleaning it up in Recycle
Second, double the loop so you have it perfectly synched up on two separate tracks. Keep one track dry and apply some very heavy compression to the other track. Ratio around 10:1 and Threshold around -25dB. Play with the levels of each track till your hear that crisp punch. Chances are the dry track will be around 0 and the treated track will be cranked to like +6.
also try running it through a sonic maximizer or exiter...
...may or may not help but its worth a try....
L8R
Dorje
-----Original message-----
From: kenny ***** kenny****@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 18:01:57 -0500
To: "idm@hyperreal.org" idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: [idm] need help with Amen Break
Does anyone know how the pros get their Amen's so clean and tight sounding?
(not their sequence but the sound of each hit)
The original break is very dirty and smeary, and doesn't lend itself to the
wild sampler mayhem
that you hear done with it today.
Todays best Amen stuff is tight and clean enough to warp in extreme ways and
retain a crisp percussive punch
Not to name drop, but you know who i am talking about
Its not just compressors and eq's
the actual hits are more defined and have no noise floor
I've been dieing to tear up Kontakt 2 with some Amen's, but my recording of
A-men sucks
and I'm having a tough time getting the sounds I want
If anyone knows how to do this or has an Amen recording like this, hook me
up, i'd pay for it
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