tips on hi hat lines

[techno_smack]

cheers jay, that was quite helpful.

cant seem to make them sound anywhere near as good tho

[loopdon]

They sound pretty washed out, as Jay said they have a white noise element. Didn't sound really high to me either (high as in airy), more crusty, midish... analogue :)

This plugin might add to the experience:

http://home.versatel.nl/breebaar/dow...erox/ferox.zip

this -only demo, though, should at least get you into the sound ballpark:

sonitex 1260 from

http://www.otiumfx.com/

or izotope vinyl; or some bitrate reduction. has the feeling of an old, crusty sampler. like old wutang records... deffo not hi-fi and not what i would want my highats to sound like but matter of taste as always.

[Jay Pace]

cheers jay, that was quite helpful.

cant seem to make them sound anywhere near as good tho

Well, its not so much the hats as the mix around them that makes them how they are.

So maybe you need to work on your mix and worry less about your hats? A good mix will see everything fall into place. If your mix isn't balanced you won't be able to get the individual elements right no matter how hard you try.

I spent ages trying to get kicks and hats right before I realised I needed to concentrate on the mix and not the kick/hat etc.