Instant access to every in-depth mixing course from David Glenn: theproaudiofiles.com/members Free mix training bundle: bit.ly/mixbundle Mixing with Reverb: mixingverb.com Mixing with Delay: mixingdelay.com In this video, David Glenn takes four one shot tambourine samples and turns them into a loop that completely lifts the chorus of the song. — Transcript: Hey, what's up guys. David Glenn of theproaudiofiles.com and davidglennrecording.com. In this video I'm going to show you how I took these four one-shot tambourine samples, and turn them into a fitting tambourine loop that took the course of this song to the next level. Here's a sample of what they sounded like before. [tambourine] Cool. Pretty straight forward tam sounds. Then I threw some processing on, and created this loop that by itself may not be world changing here, but in the mix it sounds really great. [tambourine] I didn't have a tambourine nearby. I was feeling creative, so I pulled in these four loops, and I'm going to walk you through the processing. I already consolidated this, so shame on me, but these – let's focus in on this first hit here, because I did the same thing for the first two tambourine one-shots. This selection right here, and the next selection. Those two are the exact same hit, except what I did is I broke them apart. They were one shots, so I put them on the grid, and just treated them differently with clip gain. For the first one, let's put that back and show you what I did. All I did was I brought that down like, seven or eight dB. So that is the exact same thing as that, and it creates a difference in the velocity – kind of a fake velocity – but the dynamics. Soft hit, big hit, soft hit, big hit. It goes throughout the track. Same thing for this one right here. If I solo... [tambourine plays] It's the exact same one shot, but it sounds a little bit different because the velocity, or the volume, is slightly different. And then the same back for this one. [tambourine plays] When you shake a tambourine, you're not going to hit it the exact same every time. If you do, it probably wouldn't sound that great. So a little bit of human feel to those two samples. Then I've got them on the grid. Next up, I want to show you how I took these two from sounding like this... If I wasn't lazy, I probably could've gone in and done the same thing with clip gain and created a multi-layered, multi-velocity volume loop out of those, but I wanted those particular tambourines to sit on top of the mix, so in the mix, you don't feel them that stale. Let me actually play the mix. [mix] It's a little bit low in volume, but if I pull that up a tad, I'm going to start playback with the tambourine in, and then I'm going to mute it, and listen to how it just kind of changes the song completely. [mix plays, tambourine in, then out] It's crazy how much of a difference that makes. My buddy Graham has a video I think he did months ago where he took – I think he called it the cheapest improvement you can make to your mix or something like that – where he took a tambourine and showed arranging it in a track, and how much of a difference a $20 tambourine can make. It's absolutely awesome. So, in this case, I didn't record the tambourine, I created it, but I want to show you quickly the settings for this. The first two plug-ins here on the chain are Alloy 2, and it keeps doing this to me. It goes into demo mode or something and then fixes itself... Anyways, I'm pulling out attack, and I'm pulling out release, because it just sounded too fake, and I wanted to control that. I didn't want it to be too sustainey, but I didn't want the level to change, so it's kind of a complementary thing. The Devil-Loc here where I'm crushing it to keep it on top, but I didn't necessarily like the sustain. I liked the level being on top, but not the crunch and sustain that it added. So I added the Alloy 2, where I cut the sustain and attack, and let me show you the difference between that. Let's just solo these two here. Here's without Alloy 2, then I'll put it back in. [tambourine plays without and with Alloy 2] Okay. I didn't want the attack on these, I wanted the ringing and the movement to come from this tambourine. The first two tambourine one shots are where I'm getting the hit off and letting that be a little more human. [truncated]

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