I want to collect some key words/phrases I can use to search for snare samples/patches, or describe snare sound to musicians/producers/etc. For example, would you call the snare here “Amen break snare”?
How about the snare sounds used here? I could call the first sound “clap-like” but that might be misleading. The snare in the verse sounds like a classic drum machine (TR series?) snare so I think most peeps would know right away if I said “606 snare”, “808 snare”, or whatever that is.
TR
Acoustic
Dry
Wet
Gated
Verb
Break
Thin
Fat
Heavy
Light
Classic
Deep
Picolo
Dusty
Hiphop
Clap
Metal
Wood
Rimshot
Rimclick
Flam
Accent
Fuzz
Tight
Loose
Fast
Slow
Vinyl
Tape
Digital
FM
Chip
Analogue
That might help.
My friend thought the first snare sound in “Wow War Tonight” was a “Trap” snare.
I didn’t think of that because I don’t listen to much Trap music.
Me neither. But I believe ‘Trap’ uses 808 like drum sounds for drums, not just snare. I could be wrong though. Trap is a genre, not a snare.
Look up « picolo » snare. It’s a shallow acoustic type which has character.
I think this is the most definitive list.
I looked at my TD50x and snares are labeled the same way. Also in superior drummer they have a similar label too. I would go with this list.
That may be true, but this seems to suggest they do look for particular snare sounds
Love my MC-707, but the “drum and bass” factory drum kits don’t come with a snare that sounds like the Amen Break snare.
Hold shift, hit pad where you want the amen snare, hit enter, hit enter, hit enter, arrow key down to snare, arrow key right, arrow key right, turn wheel until you get to (IIRC) 109 Jungle Snr P. If that is the one (might be 106 or 108) hit enter to load it.
That’s a proper/the trap snare in the ‘how to make’ vid. The wow war tonight snare sounds more like a heavily squashed and processed tr series like you say, but it also makes me think of ‘vengeance’ drum kits which were big in the peak days of bro-step.
Like this
Agree with you there, the War War Tonight snare sounds like what I would think of as a dubstep snare. (Yes, technically bristle, but it’s in other sub-genres of dubstep too.) Basically the audio equivalent of being punched in the face. 
Thwack.
“Shit”
It’s all you need
Very useful shortcut there. Thank you, sir!