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Hi-hats, along with the kick drum, are the fundamental driving elements of your track. With this tutorial, you will always get them right. This is a hard techno sound design Ableton tutorial, but you can replicate this in any other DAW.
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Timestamps:
00:00 What you'll learn + intro
00:35 Samples choice and sequencing
03:43 Simple percussion layering
04:29 Adding more rhythm to the percussion
05:56 A tip for a cleaner percussion sound
07:36 Saturating the hi-hats instead of equalizing them
09:05 A practical guide to using a glue compressor
13:04 How to equalize the hi-hats
14:37 Why you should sidechain the percussion
15:38 A reverb on hi-hats never fails