What The Best Way To Get That Sort Of Off-Time Clap Sound?

Tips & Tricks
1

I’ve been trying to make my beats a little more shuffly/off-time, but i’m having trouble with claps.

I’ve tried putting multiple samples in a channel and delaying each, but it just doesn’t sound quite right.

Anyone got any tips for this sort of thing?

Here’s some examples of what I’m trying to go for:
Flying Lotus - Pet Monster Shotglass

2562 - Fever

2

I’ve tried to achieve the same thing, although I’ve never had complete success so I’m curious to see what other people think. The two main things I’ve had luck with:

  • use different panning and EQ on each sample
  • use snippets of reversed clap samples to give short pickups to the claps
3

Aren´t you sweet :) If you figure out how to do anything like flying lotus, let me know :)

4

Try importing the track as a sample in Renoise, trim it to a part that has mostly beats, and set the BPM to about 188. Not just the clap is off-beat, also the bassdrum-ish ‘plop’ and everything else is just a little off at times. It looks to me as if the clap often starts early.
And the clap is definately several samples with varying start times.

5

Just sounds like a lazy flam to me, using 2 or 3 clap / snare samples triggered close together and a little behind the beat. I think you’re barking up the right tree with the delay column, just make sure you’re using a sufficiently high LPB / BPM. I’d suggest using an 808 snare lower down in the mix to add some sluggish snap and body either a couple of milliseconds before or after the clap itself

6

This is the most effective way if you’re throwing your samples all together. You can also delay the track by a few ms if you want.