Sound used with the snare on Billy Squire's Everybody want you?

Do you mean the sound that appears in the 2nd verse? Possibly a Simmons or Syndrum (but more likely a synth) with a filtered white noise setting. It's pretty tight with the snare, so I'd say it's triggered rather than played.

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In between the verses and in the call and response, it sounds like a back masking effect. It's actually making noise before the note. As to the rest of the song??? They used a lot of reverse reverb/reverse gate back then.
 
I wish I could ask the drummer Bobby Chouinard a friend of mine back in the day. Lost him in 1997. Great drummer and nice guy too.
 
In between the verses and in the call and response, it sounds like a back masking effect. It's actually making noise before the note. As to the rest of the song??? They used a lot of reverse reverb/reverse gate back then.

Definitely backwards reverb on "The Stroke", but I don't hear that in Everybody Wants You...
 
Definitely backwards reverb on "The Stroke", but I don't hear that in Everybody Wants You...

You are correct. I was going from memory. It's not a back masked snare its some kind reverb and another effect mixed together. It makes the snare sound like really loud clap in the response.
 
I think I can replicate the sound of the drum set in the "Everybody Wants You" song.

Now where did I put that old First Act drum set I brought for my son.........


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I think I can replicate the sound of the drum set in the "Everybody Wants You" song.

Now where did I put that old First Act drum set I brought for my son.........


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I have always thought the same thing. His snare is low,almost loose sounding. Like my first snare.
 
I think I can replicate the sound of the drum set in the "Everybody Wants You" song.

Now where did I put that old First Act drum set I brought for my son.........


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Don't laugh, it's amazing how unique and great a "cheap" drum sounds under the mic! More than a few pros sneaking old MIJ kits into the studio... shhhh!
 
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