The Mother of all KICK DRUMS thread

On 2008-09-29 10:38, hugaw wrote:
Okay freeks
I was wondering if pros add subs to their kicks, like with the well know technique in techno/house (sine wave with sidechain gate) ? Have u heard about it ?
Most of the time u have this tiny ping pong kick (hipassed) but sometimes u find big fat kicks in psy production.

On 2008-04-05 03:37, neogen wrote:
ite piXan m8

i like bazzism or pitchbent sine in kontakt, soundforge or adobe audition.

when an equaliser i sometimes do this:

12dB lowpass at about 5 to 10k.
sometimes high resonance 2dB boost betwwen 1 and 3k (to bring out the click)
medium resonance cut by 2 to 3 dB at 500hz (to make it clean, if it isn't clean there already)
and a boost at around 60 to 150hz, if it needs a boost at all.

use an eq if it sounds somewhat unbalanced and unclean.

this is just an example..... and ofcourse some/most kicks an sound fat and clean enough without any EQing at all, but you can achieve different possibilties by using an EQ to actually shape the freqs in the sweep.
just start experimenting

use exoscope to see how pro kicks look,
on some pro kicks you will sometimes see 1s that have a dip in volume on waveform after the beginning click then a raise in volume after that,
this is a cut in the mid like i said earlier.

but fuck how it looks its how it sounds that matters.

i like bazzism because its easy to tune end of the kick
while the bassline is playing

and its how it fits in harmony in both key and frequencies spectrum with the bassline which is most important to achieving fat sound.

i think this is about all i can say about a kickdrum

hope this helps.