HPF, bus or directly put on channel?

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StanleySteamer

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As the title says. I am trying to filter drums and low end out of this annoying ass sample lol. I use Pro Tools. Is it best to just put a sample on the channel strip of the sample and filter it off or should I send it to an aux track with a HPF on it?
 
don't need an aux for a filter. Just put the filter on the channel(Last in the plugin chain) and automate the cutoff. Assuming you even need the cutoff to change. If not just put it on the channel and leave it.
 
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Appreciate the response and thanks for the advice. I was wondering when ur filtering out a sample do u normally get good results as far as removing the kicks and stuff?
 
Samples with drums and low end/kick

Hey guys I have a quick question about samples with drums. One track in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0HuAZmdM8U

Basically, I am wondering about how in the beginning when French Montana is talking by himself. U can hear that harry fraud clearly filtered the low end like the kick and bass out of the sampled out in the intro. Here's the original sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0HuAZmdM8U

Now, I know he definitely added like a clap and hi-hat and what not. But what about his kick and what not? The drums sound so soft in the original sample. Did he add kicks over it or did he do some sort of thing where he made the bass and kick of the sample come back in really strong and reinforced somehow? I am very curious as to how this works because there are literally a ton of samples that I have that are drum loops that I never use cuz I never filter them out and can put my drums in there. I figure its impossible to completely remove drums from a sample and then cover them with ur own.

Heres another song for example as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DeZh2aKYFE
Original Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNwXriphBwU

Alchemist does it too. How does he get his low end/kick to be so strong and reinforced without putting his own drums in? Obviously the sample drums are soft to begin with and it doesn't sound like he filtered in this one or that he added his own drums. It sounds like he made the samples drums stronger somehow. This method is kind of different from the harry fraud example I gave above but I am a very curious about both methods because I find samples and have ideas exactly like these but I always tend to skip samples with drums now because I can never program them to be perfectly over the samples drums even with filtering. I always hear the kick and it's always an issue. Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated, thank you FP and happy holidays!
 
I don't understand the second question either...

When you say "removing the kicks", do you mean good results by high pass filtering them?
 
StanleySteamer said:
Hey guys I have a quick question about samples with drums. One track in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0HuAZmdM8U

Basically, I am wondering about how in the beginning when French Montana is talking by himself. U can hear that harry fraud clearly filtered the low end like the kick and bass out of the sampled out in the intro. Here's the original sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0HuAZmdM8U

Now, I know he definitely added like a clap and hi-hat and what not. But what about his kick and what not? The drums sound so soft in the original sample. Did he add kicks over it or did he do some sort of thing where he made the bass and kick of the sample come back in really strong and reinforced somehow? I am very curious as to how this works because there are literally a ton of samples that I have that are drum loops that I never use cuz I never filter them out and can put my drums in there. I figure its impossible to completely remove drums from a sample and then cover them with ur own.

Heres another song for example as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DeZh2aKYFE
Original Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNwXriphBwU

Alchemist does it too. How does he get his low end/kick to be so strong and reinforced without putting his own drums in? Obviously the sample drums are soft to begin with and it doesn't sound like he filtered in this one or that he added his own drums. It sounds like he made the samples drums stronger somehow. This method is kind of different from the harry fraud example I gave above but I am a very curious about both methods because I find samples and have ideas exactly like these but I always tend to skip samples with drums now because I can never program them to be perfectly over the samples drums even with filtering. I always hear the kick and it's always an issue. Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated, thank you FP and happy holidays!
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They're layering drums over the existing drums in the sample. In the Harry Fraud example the intro is hi-passed a lot, when the drums kick in its not hi-passed as much which is why the sample sounds fuller. If you were to mute Harry Frauds drums during the verse you would hear the kick in the sample a little bit more than the intro. Just filter out as much lowend without killing the sample, and then layer drums on top matching the transients from the sample.
 
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