paulriot Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 As a lover of Motown and sixties soul, I want to recreate an authentic drum sound from logic's library of drum kits to use in my music. I've made a start, using (obviously) logic's 'motown revisited' kit as a starting point, playing with the eq and some tape saturation. Its a starter for 10, but i don't feel its there yet. Is there anything else i could be doing or considering to nail that 60's soul sound? Below is a sound cloud clip of what i have so far [soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/paul-holford/motownish[/soundcloud] Any advice gratefully received, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jangus Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Man, that sounds pretty close. You're off to a good start. The drums are a little too 'out front' in your mix here and a little mushy sounding (a tighter snare sound may help). Perhaps if you could upload a sample project (this one?) and someone could play around with it and trade back any ideas for it ? Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanRad Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I agree.. drums to out front.. reverb a bit long and bright… You might try sending to an amp simulator and bring in a little of that for some retro distortion. Also, even though there were plenty of stereo Motown tracks, mono will make it sound "older" .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdee Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 It's a good start! But if you go back and listen to those old songs you will find that the drums are usually buried and swampy/murky sounding and of course recorded in mono. Also they would play a floor tom in place of the Hihat quite a bit to give it that dark swampy feeling. Do not over-play. Keep it Simple! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Mayfield Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I agree with the comments so far. That sounds like a spring reverb on the drums to my ear - i.e. lots of individual "chunks" in it. I would expect probably a plate reverb (with a very diffuse "wash") instead. Nice going so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulriot Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Thanks for the feedback guys, i really appreciate your tips and advice. I wan't sure what was going on with the reverb, as i haven't used any at all. Turns out that the dry sound of the snare has that reverb integral to the sample. I'm trying to find a dry sounding snare that will work...no luck yet! It might have to wait til i get ni komplete as my very generous xmas present to myself. I'll have a play around and then get the project uploaded - there's not a lot to it as yet though, a bit of eq and a tiny touch of compression, and a waves kramer tape plugin used abundantly. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingery Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Motown was the home of parallel processing. That might be the touch of spice for which your searching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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