Echo-driven open hats

Next, Tom calls up an open hi-hat sample from the Live Suite library, but rather than simply placing it between the kicks in a typical rolling techno fashion, he varies the timing so that every other open hat plays on the second 16th-note rather than the third. “For me, this is much more interesting if I use it in combination with delay or reverb.” He fishes out AudioThing’s [Roland Space Echo emulation] Outer Space for this task: “I really like the reverb on this, because it’s based on a classic tape delay, and adds additional retro character to the sound.”