by itroitnyah » 24 Feb 2013 08:20
You must be hearing things. I can't hear any white noise before every second clap.
Anyways, it'd be good to create your own claps by taking samples and layering them together to make your own. EQ them, compress them, something. Yeah, a lot of what makes a clap or other drums sound good and snappy is the headroom it has. Just use a limiter (like Fruity Limiter, if you're using FL) and put the ceiling down to the mixing standard, where you generally keep all your songs mixed at, and then push the gain up a bit until the sharp peak is gone and the clap has a lot of headroom. If you aren't using Fruity Limiter, then just set the ceiling and slowly boost the gain until you get to the point where there isn't distortion, but if you went about 1dB higher, there would be distortion. Or something. Then just EQ it, add in some reverb, umm... That's about it. Compression, EQing, and reverbing is generally how I mix my claps.
Wait, I forgot a big one. Sidechain your claps to most every synth as well