enhance your drum sound by adding some thump with this free vst plugin in this video i'm
going to be adding the Cymatics diablo lite vst plugin to 808 drum kits and kicks plus i'm also
going to try it out on a regular drum kit just to hear how it sounds i'm zane welcome to audio tech
tv where it's my goal to help you conquer the tech so you can unleash your creativity and i
do this by providing easy to follow audio tech tips tutorials and reviews now if you want to
check out the diablo lite vst for yourself i've included a link down in the description
so you can easily click and check it out for yourself but right now let's give it a quick
listen and then i'll go over some of the details and we'll do even more audio tests in just a bit
now as you can see this plugin is pretty straight forward you have your two big
main controls here for the actual effect and then you have your level controls down here
and you also have this hard and soft switch that i'm going to get into
in just a little bit now my first impressions of the interface are that it's nice and clean
and it looks pretty cool too you have very useful meters on the side here so your input
your output meters and then you have this cool glowing effect in the center
and another cool thing about the interface is if you click right here you can change the size of it
so now let's look at the controls and first you have your punch control
and this boosts the initial attack of your drums to help them stand out more
and give them a little more impact so let's give that a listen right now on its own so
i'm going to turn off the clip and we're just going to have the punch
so it's super easy to dial in your desired sound with this control and if you don't have the clip
enabled like i don't hear it can really increase the overall volume level as you saw i started
clipping on the output so you want to keep that in mind and adjust your output as needed
now the next main control is the clip knob and as the name suggests this is a clipper
and it's going to help to prevent your signal from going over 0 db and increasing the clip
increases the input level that drives the clipper so this can start to cause a nice
saturated or even distorted effect on your drums let's have a quick listen to that right now
so that was with the switch in the hard position and this is a more aggressive
hard clipper when it's in that position and it can give you some really nice distortions
but if you want to add just some warmth and maybe a little bit of saturation you
can switch this over to the soft position so let's do that and we'll give it a listen
now this effect isn't about the single controls you want to use both of these together really and
when you crank the punch control you're also going to be driving the clipper along with
adjusting the input control down here so both of these are going to add to the clipper so
i'm going to set it to hard again and i'm going to crank this full
will crank the punch up and let's just give this a listen and we'll adjust the input as well
now here it is with another drum kit in the mix so let's listen to this all together
so that's pretty cool when you put it in context with more drums you can really hear how this is
going to make your drum track stand out and then of course on here you have your mix knob and this
is if you want to adjust the drum sound so you can have the 100 saturated like it is right here
or you can dial it back and do a mix of the dry drums with the saturated drums however you prefer
and what i really like about this is it allows you to put it onto like a parallel bus so then you can
do some more effects with it let's test that out right now so i'm going to disable the cymatics
diablo lite on the main track here and i've got it sent to this track right underneath you can
see i have the send there i'm gonna disable that and here is another instance of the diablo light
so now i can adjust the mix by using the volume fader over here so let's just listen to that now
so that's a pretty cool trick and that's probably the way i would use it personally
as you can still hear that original drum in there and you get all the clarity of
the original drum but you also get that thump and saturation from the diablo lite plugin
so another thing you can do with this parallel idea is add a compressor so i have
the waves cla 76 which is one of my favorite all-purpose compressors i have that on here
and let's just give it a listen to here what that sounds like with the compressor on it
so you can hear how the compressor sort of holds that bass sound a little bit longer and gives you
more of that saturation so that's what this sounds like on an 808 kick drum but
what's it going to sound like on an entire 808 kit well let's find that out right now
so i have it loaded up onto sitala and i have the classic 808 drum kit in there so let's give this a
listen
so it's a pretty nice interesting saturated sound on the entire kit it really makes that snare kind
of jump out a little bit it you probably wouldn't use this in every situation but it definitely can
be used every now and then to give your drum tracks some more interest now i also want to
check this out on a regular drum kit just to hear how it sounds so i have an instance of mt power
drum kit loaded here i have diablo right on the track as an insert effect and here's how it sounds
so that's actually a very cool sound on a regular drum kit too it had some real nice
saturation there and i've heard a lot of music now being created with that bit of saturation on
the drums so i'm definitely going to be checking this out on future projects that i'm working on
as i can see it really fitting in with those now if you want to check out
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