Quote Originally Posted by loopdon

:!: 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.

:!: 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.

:!: 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.

:!: 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....

:!: 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

yep, thats about the gist of it..

plus you can try adding distortion to only the higher bands after compressing it..

also try putting a heavily distorted, very compressed and a fair bit reverbed ride in the background subtly behind a main one, that'll smooth it out for sure