Drum Hit Replacement/Reinforcement In Pro Tools

There are several different ways of replacing and reinforcing drum hits in Pro Tools. Drum replacement is often done on kits that may have not been recorded well, however it is also used on commercial releases to keep the hit of the snare or kick drum consistent. For the purpose of this tutorial I am going to concentrate on reinforcing a snare drum, but the principles are the same for any other drum hits.
The different ways of replacing drums are as follows:
1.    Using an audio sample hit for the snare drum, and placing on a separate track to reinforce the existing snare. This is useful way when the snare does not have a dedicated track and was recorded with an overhead. Because of the amount of decay there is on symbols you could not replace the snare onto a overhead track because it would chop off the decay of the symbols. If the snare drum was recorded on an individual track then you can place a sample over the original hits of the snare track.

2.    Enforcing the original audio hit with a Midi snare drum. Similar to the above method but using MIDI hits. This give you more control over the sound of the hits after you have done you editing.

Drinks At The Bar- 2Dark

To record, produce and mix the vocal part of 2Darks “Drinks at the bar”. The track went on to have great success in European clubs.