In this tips and tricks video on metal music production, Mendel looks at how to work with Cubase metal recording to get a professional metal snare sound. Starting with checking phase alignment, polarity and getting the right drum waveform, he then looks at using snare samples for creating metal snares, highlighting the importance of room mics to get great sample depths. He goes on to the metal music workflow for creating snappy snares by using gain reduction with the multi-compressor, vintage compressor and EQ , every process using only the tools available in Cubase DAW music software.