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I have some pretty good, dry drum loops I'd like to incorperate into my music.
Since they're essentially "unprocessed", I'd like to harbalize them to match a good drum EQ...

Maybe some Bonham? I don't know. Any suggestions for a reference source?

zentatonic wrote:I have some pretty good, dry drum loops I'd like to incorperate into my music.
Since they're essentially "unprocessed", I'd like to harbalize them to match a good drum EQ...

Maybe some Bonham? I don't know. Any suggestions for a reference source?

I'd be tempted to use your own judgement and go without a reference.

Can't think of much that is commercially available that would make a good reference. Maybe "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" by Phil Collins off the album "But Seriously". It's basically an exemplary recording of Phil playing drums and the Phoenix horns playing horns with a bass guitar thrown in (no vocals or other instruments). The drums and the horns dominate. You'll just have to guess how much influence the horns have on the overall spectrum.

Anthoer point to make is that drums/precussion generally benefit a lot from a live recording environment so if they are dry you might like to feed them through an ambience processor (room simulation) first.

Regards,


Paavo.

Grab some samples off of a zepplin album, there are drum solo spots from time to time in their songs, grab little one hit samples where you can, open it in Har-Bal and make your own reference file for it

I've done things like that a few times...it works pretty well.