Crafting signature hi-hat sounds

Hi-hats for the most part are simple – it’s only when you want to try to recreate a live-sounding hat or perhaps add a level thickening to it where it makes sense to get creative with layering these types of sounds.

But because we are creating a signature sound, let’s walk through how to create a custom hi-hat sound.

Let’s look through the Browser and find a hi-hat we think has potential. To create a signature sound for a hi-hat, I want to let you know that there are a few types of hi-hats we will create, which are commonly used in our sound design. These are as follows:

• Flat hi-hats, what we use as the main driving hat in our rhythmic patterns
• Open hi-hats, which we use to create lift and add transitional ear candy in a hi-hat rhythmic pattern and percussion, which compliments and adds texture to our hi-hat patterns

There are various types of hi-hat sounds in the marketplace, everything ranging from...