Snare top channel · VST3 · AU
The snare top channel and the hub of the set. Florida removes the cardboard sound without taking the level with it, and Tune builds the body at the drum's own note.
Crack, Air and Excite put the top on. Dynamite and Violence shape the hit. A snare chamber sits behind it, with Nasa for width and Orgasm for the breath after the hit.
Florida
Florida is a steep notch with a wall on the low side and a gentle coast on the high side. It is level-matched while it runs: across the whole Cut range the level stays within 0.43 dB while the boxiness drops from 21.4 % to 2.5 %.
Tune
Tune sets the body boost and the hit support to the drum's fundamental. Hits above 40 % of the track's peak get a decaying tone at that note, so ghost notes stay ghost notes.
Chamber
The room is a distorted tiled room plus a 2.28 s stereo snare chamber (convolution). The send is high-passed so the body you just cleaned does not ring back.
Hub
Snare is the reference for Sync. Kick, bottom snare, toms, overheads and cymbals measure their delay against it and move into line, polarity included where it is needed.
The front panel, left to right and top to bottom. Every control reads 0–10. DEEP adds: Florida Fine (Wall, Coast), Body Comp, Crack Comp, Detail (Crack Tune, Width, Air Start, Pre-Delay, Sustain), Sync.
| Module | Controls | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| In | Input · Bleed | Input trim and cymbal bleed control before any boost. |
| Tone | Tune · Body | The drum's fundamental and the body boost at that note. |
| Florida | Place · Cut | Position and depth of the cardboard notch, level-matched. |
| Crack | Crack · Excite · Air | The crack band, harmonics on 1.8–6 kHz and an air shelf. |
| Hit | Dynamite · Violence · Slam | Attack, tail length and parallel squash, level-matched. |
| Room | Room · Gate · Nasa · Orgasm | Room and chamber, gate, width and a generated breath after the hit. |
| America | America | A broad 500 Hz bell on the finished sound, reverb included. |
| Satellite | Listen · Link · Amount | Removes hi-hat bleed using the Hihat + Cymbal plugin as the reference. |
| Out | Level · Ceiling · Mix | Look-ahead limiter and dry/wet. |
Four snares from four projects, defaults only, share of energy per band.
| Snare | Cardboard 250–600 Hz | Crack 1.5–4 kHz | Top 4–8 kHz | Rise time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basement | 60.8 % → 8.0 % | 1.7 % → 38.1 % | 0.4 % → 17.7 % | 3.5 ms |
| Session A | 23.9 % → 2.2 % | 1.8 % → 34.0 % | 0.5 % → 15.6 % | 4.3 → 3.1 ms |
| Session B | 32.5 % → 6.8 % | 3.5 % → 36.2 % | 0.8 % → 18.7 % | 3.5 → 2.9 ms |
| Rehearsal | 20.5 % → 2.5 % | 2.3 % → 31.9 % | 0.4 % → 14.5 % | 13.7 → 2.8 ms |
In our measurements it sits at about 1.5 times the drum's fundamental: 302 Hz on three snares tuned to 202 Hz and 339 Hz on one tuned to 214 Hz. That is why the Place default is 300 Hz when the Tune default is 200 Hz.
America balances weight against crack. With everything else fixed, America 0 gave 28.2 % body and 39.3 % crack; America 10 gave 45.9 % body and 26.6 % crack.
A short breath after the hit, generated from filtered noise and the drum's own overtone. It waits until the hit has decayed, so it adds release without cymbal hiss.
Put every Visioääni plugin as the first insert on its track. The snare plugin is the Sync hub, so the other drums line up only when a snare instance is in the project.
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