Comments on: Make Roland TR-808 Hi Hat samples sound “real”.

By: Bayan

Bayan — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:59:42 +0000

Appreciate it, Oliver, thank you

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:20:13 +0000

Hi Bayan. I find a lot of samples sound feathery with too much high end. I like my 808s to sound slightly chrome or metallic. Most real TR-808s actually sound different from each other. Even emulations like D16s Nepheton have 808 presets each with slightly different tunings/sound. I have a Wizoo set of samples that I dont use a filter on but on some of my other kits in Battery or Impulse I do use it. You know… trust your ears and pick what you like!

By: Bayan

Bayan — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:10:17 +0000

Hi Oliver, in the article you say this is a trick to make 808 samples sound more real, I unfortunately never touched one real 808 machine, but aren’t the samples you are processing taken from a REAL machine? could you please clarify the concept behind this trick, namely, why do you need to make the samples sound more real when they are already real enough as it is?
if there is an aesthetical agenda to it, and you just need to color them into a certain tone then it’s whole ‘nother thing

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:36:24 +0000

^^^Eek - sorry you’ve already mentioned that site! Feel free to delete.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:35:13 +0000

http://samples.kb6.de/downloads.php

By: Kent Sandvik

Kent Sandvik — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:52:55 +0000

I like 808, but I must say the times I need the sound, I just use the default 808 drum set inside Logic. RMIV from LinPlug also has nice 808 samples, and Linplug should actually very soon release the new version of their drum plug-in. –Kent