I'm trying to locate the source of this snare, I'm 99% sure I've heard it on a drum machine before (possibly an MPC but I may be wrong)
(Snare examples)
Any help is appreciated

That's exactly what I was thinking, some random romper acoustic kit snare pitched up to tighten it up.garranimal wrote:Wherever the original sample is from, or what drum machine had it, it has been pitch transposed way up to give it that short snappy. To sort it out sample one of the examples, and pitch it back down.
To me it sounds like the original source of the sample is Led Zep's "When the Levee Breaks". It shows up on a lot of Keith LeBlanc/Adrian Sherwood stuff from around that time.Jabberwalky wrote:While we're on the subject, what snare is this? I know all the sounds are coming from one machine, as they are used throughout the album, He Said "Hail" 1986[youtube][/youtube]