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How Bearcubs builds contrast into his drums with Battery

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August 8, 2025
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How Bearcubs builds contrast into his drums with Battery
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How much do you rely on the built-in saturation and EQ tools inside Battery versus external plugins?

I use the built-in effects mostly for character. If I need a dirty, distorted kick, I’ll slam it through Battery’s saturation, maybe add some bitcrushing, then tame the top end with the low-pass filter. The sample engine set to s1200 mode is a nice CPU-friendly way to get lo-fi texture too.

For more extreme effects, I’ll often turn to the stretch sampler – Battery’s version has a unique character that differs from Ableton’s warping. Once the individual hits are feeling right, I’ll usually move outside of Battery and group everything to a drum bus.

From there, it’s EQ, bus compression (SSL or API style), tube or tape saturation, and sometimes soft clipping or an inflator if the track needs to hit harder without sharp transients.

Pro tip from Bearcubs: Run your drum bus through a guitar effects pedal or amplifier and re-record into your DAW. You can also just play the drum loop through the speakers and record with a mic on the opposite side of the room. Take this recording and either heavily distort or compress it.

You can achieve really interesting sounds this way that take you out of the box, a use case might be when you want to have the drums in a breakdown section before a chorus but make them feel more distant so there’s a big contrast when the chorus drop finally comes.

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