Decapitator on Snare Drum

[Guido tum SudenKeymaster]

While looking for something to tame transients on snare drum I stumbled upon this. What do you think?

• Put Decapitator on snare track
• Use preset "Drum Fatterner 1"
• Adjust Output
• Use Tone control to adjust the sound of your snare to the song!

The Tone control is the great thing here. It let's you, to a degree, tune the snare to get a darker or a brighter one.

Guido

• This topic was modified 7 years ago by Guido tum Suden.

[simonbestParticipant]

Distorsion will round up the transients, but it can make them sound kind of "fake" so to speak. Any dist plugin will do the task, but Decapitator is a beast.

[Anonymous]

Does Decapitator make that much of a difference? Im considering a purchase but am not au fait with the product. Any advise will be greatly appreciated, would any other product or distortion fill the same role?

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[Arthur LabusModerator]

I use Nomad Factory Bus Driver. There is a preset "Snare bite" (Tube saturation). Works fine.
Bus Driver is really versatile and it's only 9,99 $. Demo available.

Or VST32 plugins for Windows: Thrillseeker VBL and Thrillseeker TXC from Variety of Sound.
Great free plugins.

However, i don't know decapitator.

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by Arthur Labus.

[Anonymous]

Cheers Arthur, I do love me some Free Plugins.. I'll give them a blast and report back 😛

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[Magnus JohanssonParticipant]

Other free saturation available from klanghelm and softube. Warren has a video or two where he checks out some free plugins. Bet there were a couple more saturation plugins there.

[Michael HordorwichParticipant]

Decapitator is so awesome especially for drum bus. Also I agree there are some cool great free plugs out there. I think I own everything out there except fabfilter and a few others but got all the usual suspects from waves mercury to slate all, all isotope, soundtoyS bundle tons of uad etc but the more I get like I said in another post I started the more my work slows down. I think I need to downgrade but selling them is so hard and not worth it so I just need to be wise about NOT buYing anymore I have enough and need to master what I got. Anyways happy mixing and all your mixes sounds great guys and gals! Thanks,mike

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