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Posted by captaincrunch on Dec-06-2005 22:01:

kick variation?

My Kick sometimes drives right over the tone of the song. besides dropping a hit out what can be done so the beat doesn't sound so techno 4/4 sterile. Do people quantize the hits off beat to set up a pattern or what?

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Dec-06-2005 22:22:

Just shuffle it a bit every now and then. Not really rocket science.

Posted by nhibberd on Dec-07-2005 02:33:

Trie varying other stuff, like the percs. Or add a BD on the last 1/8th and/or 1/16th of a bar once in a while. Or do something whacky now and again with 1/3ds on the last bar.

For effects you could put the BD through an attacked filter or something like that. All in all I haven't heard that many tracks that vary the overall tone of the BD very much. Except that they can be put through a filter of some kind as a buildup or breakdown.

It's often quite a nice sound when you put a BD and a bassline through the same 0-attack compressor.

other than that, I'v no idea,

Charlie Darwin