Things I found on this Board an pasted together as a 'sticky' for myself:

Ridez:

:!: I read some where else I while back that one way to get ride symbals to kind of "ssssh" and ride across bars (I guess like a Ben Sims track) is to get a 909 ride to distort by having the channel fader turned right down, gain and treble right up, reduced attack and a little delay.

:!: hmm try with pitching down the ride and using a bit of reverb.

:!: compress the life out of it!! will help aswell...

:!: run yer rides through a compressor, and sidechain the compressor to your kick, so the rides will pump with the kick, and heavy compression will give em that distorted head slicing sound.

:!: Hey, if you don´t like to compress your 909 Ride, just open a Fruity Granulizer and stretch the ride out, it´ll work for sure.
And one more thing; try to find a Ride sample with very long release time and skip to cut it when you step it out.

:!: yeah some nice long reverb i tend to use and a little drive, keep them as low as possible too but without losing the effect.

:!: yeah try putting another small hat pattern on top of your normal ones - just stick a few in and put a ping pong delay on em - add a wee bit of top end distortion and filter em right up so they are very very thin - then turn the vol up a bit so you can hear it again & maybe add a reverb lightly and that will open things up somwhat for you

:!: Heavily limit a ride. Sidechain the limiter (or compressor) to a kick so it pumps and fizzes. Plenty of verb too. I think thats what you are aiming for.

:!: 909 ride + treble, -mid, ickle compression/distortion, maybe ickle reverb. Done.
Don't sit it too high in the mix.

:!: i was just gonna reccomend compressing the hell out of a long ride cymbal. boosting the level of the sound as its supposed to be dying out should give it a hissing effect, especially if you over compress a little bit and get that whoosy noise added in....

:!: I found taking the attack off the front of the ride also works well. Sort of decline the ramp until each ride blends with the other.

:!: Yeah, do what bub said. Take some attack off the ride, whack the gain up to maximum (assuming you're using an analogue desk), set treble to maximum, and also mid if you have a sweeping mid, and set the sweep to the top. Then as apus said keep the fader quite low.

:!: Tuning the ride quite high can help too.

:!: distort - reverb - compress the shit- eq ...

:!: compress, distort 2 fizzle, cut a lot of the "bass" with eq!... also use a very busy and repetitive sequence... U might add a little verb 2!

hope that helpz!

loopdon