Creating a Reverse Cymbal Swell in Pro Tools

In this video, I go through the basic technique of creating a reverse swell with a cymbal. The most important aspect is to find the cymbal sound that you like. You can cut a cymbal out of the song, from a sample, sample your own, or record a cymbal out of a virtual instrument. In this case, I recorded a cymbal out of Space Cabin Audio’s, Galaxy Drums. For reverb in the example, I use the Sonnox Oxford Reverb. Everything else is just routing and tools included in Pro Tools.

There is a lot of different ways to employ the technique and limitless results. This is just 1 way of a million different ways to pull it off.  Hopefully you can bend, twist, and morph this idea into your own productions.