Drum and bass hi hat loop 174 bpm, 2 bars, fast shuffle

About this sample

A crisp, noise-based hat loop runs for two bars at 174 BPM, with an eighth-note backbone and quieter shuffled 16th-note ghosts. Closed hats use noise band-passed from 6.5–16 kHz, with 75 ms lengths, short attacks, and fast decays; an open hat near the end of each bar is band-passed from 5–15 kHz and rings for 190 ms. The hits have brief anti-click fades, varied gains, and alternate subtly between left and right, with the loop capped at -3 dB peak.

Use it for drum and bass or other fast breakbeat patterns around 174 BPM, either as a complete hat layer or over a different kick and snare groove. Its bright upper range can compete with cymbals and vocal sibilance, so check the top end and reduce or filter it if the mix gets sharp.