How to process a sampled breakbeat for maximum impact

Breakbeats are one of the most ubiquitous sounds in dance music. The process of creating a break is pretty simple: load a sample into your DAW, stretch it to match you project tempo, slice it in a sampler and get rearranging! But how do you get those breaks sounding their best? What tools and techniques will help them cut through? In this video, we offer up a trio of tips to help you get the most out of your breaks.
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[@BBQBrizkit]

It would be much more helpful if you explained what you were listening for when changing the dials. I can see what you’re doing but I don’t know *why* you’re doing it, so essentially all I really learned is how to get this specific sample to sound good - and that is, by copying whatever you just did here.

[@joeydendron]

Wouldn't be a real RUclips video if it taught you more than how to move some software user interface elements to make something sound better in a way you don't understand...

[@alocapone3542]

Don't need these bs techniques to get a good sound.

[@midnightmix2692]

i use the waves transient shaper, sounds great!

[@karmen__zzzz]

THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED
THANK YOUUUUU

[@ShankhJaiswal]

#FutureMusicMagazine Please make this type of small and effective videos 🙏😊💗

[@joeykaram09]

this

[@FWord]

Breakbeat massive!

[@CC-fi3pp]

Multiband compression, EQ and Reverb is all you really need 99% of the time. Everything else is not super essential.

[@agit5270]

Useless

[@DojoOfCool]

So take a great beat done by a real drummer, cut it into pieces that you probably will quantize, then process the soul out of the sound leaving sounding like a tin can and cardboard box. Forgot you're probably going to speed it up taking what little is left of the groove and kill it too. Listen to the old great records for inspiration, then create your own beats from scratch that's being creative.

[@sced7]

Oh shut up...

[@TheTech1991]

Grandpa no one cares

[@B1SCOOP]

You would have a point if this was tutorial for styles along Acid Jazz or Future Funk. Instead, these processed drum loops are intended to be nothing more than background for 909 percussion in Techno/House music.

[@DaCashRap]

who's talking about quantizing?

[@-Lola.]

Shut the fuck up. No one wants to hear you on your soapbox, you self righteous twat