How to Write/Produce Liquid DnB Drums

In this video I cover the process of writing and producing liquid drum and bass drums. We start out with kick and snare sample layering and then move on to writing hi-hats and understanding the various articulations we can use for more expressiveness. I also cover the concept of layering live drums over our one shot based pattern to give it a more organic feel.

Then we move on to mixing and processing our drums using various techniques. One of which is using clipping and limiting to reach competitive loduness levels and also using transformer / tape saturation to add nuance to our drums, then use buss compression and finally limiting to really flesh out the drums.

Bitwig Addictive Drums

00:00 Intro
00:25 Song Preview
01:09
01:33 Sign me plox
01:44 Drums Preview
02:15 Drum Pattern Overview
03:07 Understanding Velocities
03:34 How to Think About Drum Fills
03:58 Writing Hi-hats
05:00 Kick Layering
05:51 Snare Layering
06:08 Drum Tuning
07:36 Clipping/Limiting for Loudness
08:24 Live Drum Layer with AD2
08:58 Live Drums Preview
09:12 PLZ Support me
09:45 Mixing Live Drum Layer
11:40 Additional Snare Layer
12:00 Additional Hihat Layer
12:32 Tambourine Layer
12:55 Ride Layer/Worm Break
13:00 Drum Mixing Hierarchy
13:45 Drum Buss
16:38 Outro