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Set the gate hold time to roughly so the reverb cuts off abruptly. 12-Bit Bitcrushing Early 1980s samplers lacked pristine modern audio fidelity. Insert a bitcrusher on your drum bus. Downsample the audio to 12-bit or 8-bit resolution. Punchy 80s kicks, gated snares, crisp claps, and retro toms
Send your snare to a auxiliary channel with a (3-4 seconds decay). Insert a Noise Gate immediately after the reverb plugin. Sidechain the gate to the dry snare signal. Punchy 80s kicks
Reduce the sampling rate slightly to introduce vintage aliasing artifacts. Sidechain Compression