'Long release' snare

Im trying to get this kind of snare, as you can hear in some of 16 bit tracks.

Here are few examples:

Or in the new The 13 track:

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There are many ways you can get such a tail.

1) You can layer bypassed whitenoise (keep the 500-2000hz frequencies) and apply an envelope on it to adjust the release. It sounds fairly good. (I usually do it on 3xOSC considering it's how I saw it done on Tristam's stream)

2) Reverb the shit out of a snare tail. Be careful not to apply the reverb on the transient, or the result will be less punchy than what you started with.

3) My favorite : the "long clap is long" rule. It's kind of a mash-up between the two techniques I explained above. You layer a veeeery long tailed clap to the snare, and you add a lot of reverb to it, emphasing on the 200-800hz band.

Hope it was useful :)

thanks man, will try these out!

any idea about doing one like this.. i'm not sure it would be the same technique.

https://soundcloud.com/tjr/tjr-ode-to-oi-original (the one at the end of his 8-16 bar loops)

It's a "Pryda snare" or "Prydz snare". Long story short, it made Eric Prydz / Pryda's career.

oh damn! thanks alot yo :D

The snares in that sample pack posted above sound like doo-doo. Def much better to make your own via the advice above.

2) Reverb the shit out of a snare tail. Be careful not to apply the reverb on the transient, or the result will be less punchy than what you started with.

The way to stop it from taking away the punch (and the way I do it) is to layer two identical drum machines, one without reverb & one with reverb and a little lower volume, this way you still get the sharp attack and you still here the background fade. All you gotta ensure is that you get all your levels precisely where you want em, oh & I'd mute the kick drum in the reverberated machine if you have one, gets a little too much echo & sometimes starts to distort.

The way to stop it from taking away the punch (and the way I do it) is to layer two identical drum machines, one without reverb & one with reverb and a little lower volume, this way you still get the sharp attack and you still here the background fade. All you gotta ensure is that you get all your levels precisely where you want em, oh & I'd mute the kick drum in the reverberated machine if you have one, gets a little too much echo & sometimes starts to distort.

Yeah this works well, I sometimes even throw a compressor on the reverb'd version and sidechain it lightly to the dry snare sound to keep things from getting too cluttered.

Yeah this works well, I sometimes even throw a compressor on the reverb'd version and sidechain it lightly to the dry snare sound to keep things from getting too cluttered.

I've learnt to live with clutter. (yeah)