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The exploding snare trick

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The exploding snare trick

- [Voiceover] There are times when you want that snare drum to just explode out of the speakers. There's a way to get that done that you probably never thought about. First of all, let's listen to the track and then we'll add in the exploding snare trick. (music with drum beat) Pretty dry, sounds pretty good. Listen to the snare by itself. (snare drum plays) So now what we're going to do is add delay and you can see I have a delay channel right here, that I've already inserted. And now what I'm going to do is go to the delay time and set it to somewhere between 100 and 120 milliseconds. Somewhere in there, maybe even higher. Time it to the track, so we'll go to 100. 100 is actually time to the track so that's pretty good. We don't need to do anything else. Now this is on bus 10 so let's a little of bus 10 to it. (drum beat plays) Listen to the track. (music with drum beat) You can hear it sounds a little thicker. Nothing dramatic though. Now we're going to go to the second part of…

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