Hi hats

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Also using the same old ones need to invest in a field recorder imo

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I use different different hats on every tune. Except Iā€™m always coming back to the 808 hats. Sometimes layer one an octave below on an 808 hat for the banter.

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sample pack one, might be too much, over compressed and poking too much through some mixes

tried and tested organic hat - sampled from a tune - might just fit straight in a mix, but might not have that ^bit where it cleans the slate and states im the only 1 here like the pack one

this one is good itā€™s the one where the hat is part of the same break as the break your using

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masterwork

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I love putting really short panned delay on hats, kind of a light touch, gives a nice stereo image for them.

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in the ultimate sensei sense yeah

like building and hammering out a piece of metal that is in key with the brass section, one for the winds and so on :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

but Iā€™m not saying I tune all hats with like melodyne (I might) but from a musical perspective, I think hihats (and most cymbals) have largely ended up becomming this weird pseudo dissonant bit that is obnoxiously unimaginative.

Itā€™s useful as a compositional tool and in a band situation, to have that constant hi end focal point and i think thats what excuses ā€˜its useā€™ throughout the last century and I think it needs an excuse tbh. Because itā€™s essentially just too abbrassive as an instrument (yes Iā€™m taking you on history of music ! ). Itā€™s like having a peacock in heat strapped to your back when you need to be stealthy.

Its kind of cheap and opening up composition/music to the idea of having other bits going in constant 16ths or 32s that at the time underline or go with the notes in the song - screams to me as being something ā€˜beatā€™ music has to go through.

What they contribute to music is largely tinitus :hankey:

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Are you referring to the trapification to beats music?

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And all the kunty drummers Iā€™ve played with, it was always the fā€™ing crash that fried my brain.

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Actually not that, specifically, because I see trap as a thing where it could change because the hatsā€™ role is so central to the structure and that thereā€™s not so many elements to switch around or vary.
So a trap track comming up - might define itself by having the hats sound like something else.

Thereā€™s also kind of an overlap between the ghost hits, the shortest snares and the hihats in trap. Not directly interchangable but ā€˜going offā€™ in the same way some times. Which removes the idea of what a ? should be further ofcourse.

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I like to generally mess around with trasposing/panning/delay/reverb and sometimes layering.

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808 hats with 1/16th rolling patterns mmmm

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Open and closed Hi-Hat Samples
Hi Pass at 1k
Add Reverb using a send channel
Add Delay using a send channel
Add Camel Crusher plugin using a send channel
Add Transient Shaper plugin using a send channel

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thank u dudes really interesting read and canā€™t wait to try some of this shit out

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yeah had nice effect just now from layering 2/3 808 style hats with an 808 style one reversed to give it some dust

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I like my hats to sound a little weighty and physical, not exaggerated but just enough

I cut a hat from a isaac hayes break that i got in a sample pack and that one I use all the time

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yeah i found the lex luger ones on their own sound ok but in the mix sound really like ā€˜snippyā€™ and harsh when i try and make them prominent with volume and eq

how come i ainā€™t heard a harkat tune in what feels like ever

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Cus Iā€™m slow as shit haha

made this 1 last month

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that is trill, those rattling percs, on some skull disco trap vibe

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Fucking sick

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theres the old techno trick

where you compress the hats or a cymbal in a group with the sub bass going throughout the whole song, quite severly and then eq or filter out the sub frequency againā€¦

it seems a bit detrimental or extra or whatever on the first read maybeā€¦ but what it does is actually so sickā€¦ because it means that the sub has now kind of poked a hole or ripped up the floor of the entire hat section - becomming bigger and more aliveā€¦

hats and other very harmonicly strong sounds will always eat up space

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