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Kick Drum Sound Help

Post by andyyhitscar » Mon Mar 31, 2014 4:38 pm

There is a specific bass drum sound/layering I would like to incorporate in my tunes.

It is the kick drum sound at the drop of these two examples.

If anyone knows of any tutorials on youtube or some specific layering technique you know of let me know please.

Right now I have a kick drum and a low sine wave subbass under it cept it's too subby and full, not as mid range-y as in the examples. So lost please help :u:



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Re: Kick Drum Sound Help

Post by rockonin » Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:19 pm

Why don't you move the sub an octave higher, and also are you side chaining the sub with the kick, that will tame it.
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Re: Kick Drum Sound Help

Post by andyyhitscar » Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:22 pm

wouldn't side chaining lose a lot of the sub?

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Re: Kick Drum Sound Help

Post by rockonin » Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:46 pm

Depends on the settings you use.
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Re: Kick Drum Sound Help

Post by mthrfnk » Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:58 pm

I hate these kicks and bigroom in general but anyways, they're fundamentally easy to make just google "bigroom kick" you'll get 10+ tutorials.
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Re: Kick Drum Sound Help

Post by _ronzlo_ » Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:05 pm

Also, try monitoring across a lot of different playback sources while you're trying to figure this out. Listen to it on a boombox, in the car, on your home stereo, through headphones. This way you can zero in on the freqs you need to be paying attention to and also hearing where it might get hairy on less than ideal systems.
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Re: Kick Drum Sound Help

Post by andyyhitscar » Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:14 pm

mthrfnk wrote:I hate these kicks and bigroom in general but anyways, they're fundamentally easy to make just google "bigroom kick" you'll get 10+ tutorials.
Yea I figured it be nice to know how to make it and try to use it for something else maybe?? lol

But yea thanks I'm finding a lot now

Ill post the piece of work I'm working on to show yall if I did it right

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Re: Kick Drum Sound Help

Post by shakas » Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:34 pm

it just sounds like saturation or mild distortion on the decaying bass note aspect of the kick, to me.
not much different from any old school hardcore techno, gabber, hardstyle or jumpstyle kick...just not as heavily distorted.

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Re: Kick Drum Sound Help

Post by Genevieve » Fri Apr 04, 2014 5:42 pm

2 kicks. One mildly distorted 909, layered with a high-passed kick with more top-end.
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Re: Kick Drum Sound Help

Post by darkdubz » Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:29 am

you can use cable guys Volumeshaper if you want to cut out a bit of the sub in the drop, its similar affect to side chaining a compressor but without messing with the dynamics.

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