In this week's production tip I dub up a snare. 

The focus is on adding movement to a snare track using echos from start to end and then selecting the best parts.  I've set up two main outboard pieces of gear - the Benidub Digital Echo and Korg Kaoss Pad 2.  

Each accomplishes the same idea of echo/delay but in two different ways with differing sonic results.  The Benidub is a clean-sounding box with numerous core options: Feedback, Time, Filters, Modulation, and more. 

The Korg Kaoss Pad 2 offers the ability to use your finger to trace the feedback amount, time, and tone.   Used together throughout the track allows for a lot of room to shape your snare hits to enhance the song, add dynamism, movement, and that dubbed-up vibe.  

Once I've recorded a full track of differing echo's I'll go bar-by-bar and pick the best echo hits to keep, remove OR move the other parts that don't work. You can grab a 4 or 8 or 16 bar section of unused echo hits and try moving them to another part of the track. 

This can create interesting results and new momentum.  Once I've picked the best parts and tried various others. I'll render it into a mono file and then try panning it to 9 or 3 o'clock. You can also try using a Panning plugin.

 In this video, I used the Soundtoys Panman to create slow movement left and right across the entire track. I've also used the Waves RVox compressor to level the volume (Pushing up the lows volumes)

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