theres many ways to do it but i like too chop breaks up, this is one of the ways i do it.... (i use fruity so things will be a but different for you but the principles are the same)
i'll start with the what i call the backbone... a simple break, with lots of body (examples: ike turners "funky mule", banbarras "shack up")
then chop a break that will go nicely with it, generally something with more high snappy snares in it, all depends on your first break
then i may add more, usually a nice cymbaly ridey break (examples: kurtis blows "do the do", ralph carmichaels "addicts psalm") and high pass them
then i'll distort... i may distort one of them, i may distort all of them depends how i feel, i hardly ever let the drums drown in distortion, be sure to let a fair amount dry signal through or you will lose all the dynamics and punch. and dont limit your self to one distortion unit, theres loads out there and they all have theyre own characteristics.
after that theres many things i'll do, including compression, if im compressing the whole break with one compressor i'll use a multiband compressor, but i find its better to split the kicks, snares and other stuff to different fx tracks and the EQ and compress the individually
. Any help will be very much appreciated.
