Because that is what they are. No gear that you haven't got is needed to re-create this -mostly- trip hop style of drum tracks.
Just some nice collection of obscure 60s and 70s r'n'b/soul/funk, a softie to rip those drums like Izotope Rx or RipX or if you haven't any just go to lalal.ai, and then slice 'em and dice 'em.
For making modern shit sound like that, all you gotta do is resample it to lower bitrates and use some distortion at times as that butcher dude does occasionally.
Cheers
PS: An old technique used by some is to play a loop in a much slower tempo, like sampling something let's say, at 115 bpm and stretching it all the way down to 70. You will hear it sound grainy as fuck lol. Then you can again chop and resample individual drums or parts. Limit's the sky. Good luck.

 

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SORRY TO NECRO!!!

ive done analysis on his breaks....so the average crest factor is roughly 6db

Almost all of his samples are (im guessing) soft-clipped around 6db at export. But the crest factor on a lot of the melodic loops are 12db and most of the drums and drum breaks are 6db CF.

Also, i dont believe these to be vinyl chops or extracted from vinyl and programmed...for one, copyright issues, no? a lot of these braks have fills and these could be easily detected. I would say these were performed breaks.

 

This is my niche of drum samples, but I don't sell sample packs. As was said already, there's a lot of routes to achieve this, dendig on what gear you have. I'll offer some tips on how to go this direction with just plugins.

Consider a combination of:

• sample a snare and drop it's pitch 5 or more semi tones, then use a transient shaper to increasethe attack. add a low pass or band pass filter to achieve the illusion of a warm tone, then compress it harshly to get the punch you want. I like to boost hights with eq after that signale chain for the illusion of sheen.
• strentch a snare to double speed (preferably at 96KHz, while maintaining the original pitch, then bounce that and cut the speed in half with pitch change. Filter, compress, and eq to taste.
• Start with a thin, scrappy snare, cut most of the high end out, then use Wave RBass to add a warm, punchy tone when you crank that knob.
• Downsample your drums, add light distortion (or restrict distortion to a specific eq band if you have any multibant splitting tools like in Bitwig).
• Add reverb convolution with very low decay. You can also add a delay effect with ~24ms to thicken the sound. split the stereo signal and pitch down the left side a few micro tones.
• IK T-Racks has a lot of tape emulation tools to emulate the steps of the record sampling days. IF you want to go the farthest mile in the box, add some Acustica tape and saturation.
• On soem extreme discoveries, I have introduced combfiltering into some of the chains mentioned above, where I add resonance before bouncing, and then applied the inverse after that with a dark reverb and compressed again.

Basically, its an art that gets better with experimentation. I've been dedicated to entirely sound design for about 5 years now and I'm making sounds I'd never imagined I can do. If you take some of these steps and tweek them with your own discoveries, you will surprise yourself.

 

How does Beat Butcha get his drum aesthetic?

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