Creating drum sounds – snares that pop
Creating a custom snare follows the exact same framework as creating and layering kick sounds. The only difference is we are going to only use other snare-like sounds instead of including kick sounds. To make a wide range of custom snares, we can get creative by blending and layering certain FL Studio stock snares with claps, percussion sounds, and hi-hats. The general snare sound design theory follows a framework that uses snares layered with claps, snaps, and percussion sounds to add texture to the main sound.
From a pop culture standpoint, at the time of writing this book, common snare sounds have evolved in the 2020s to mainly use short or small-sounding snares. This includes snare sounds such as claps with little to no tail, rim shots, small snares with little to no reverb, and so on. The 90s used big snare sounds that were mainly sampled from 60s and 70s records, whereas the 2000s used a lot of clap sounds from hardware and keyboards...
