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How to make tight, powerful and punchy drum kicks?

How to make tight, powerful and punchy drum kicks as Tiesto, Marco V, Ferry & ArminVB?

1. good sample
2. eq
3. compression

Read the stickies dude, there is plenty up top.

You will get lynched on here for not searching the stickies

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Originally posted by djsphere 1. good sample 2. eq 3. compression

Where to find these good samples?
Veng. Essent. Club Sounds 1 & 2 are old today, aren't they?

It does not matter if they are old or not dude, a good source sound is paramount

No, dammit, you can't use samples over 2 months old. They are just sooo played out.

You can start re-using them a year or two later and call them classics, though.

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Originally posted by Lyubomyr Veng. Essent. Club Sounds 1 & 2 are old today, aren't they?

i know it's not nice of me to say this, but you're one of the most stupid people i met around here.

buy tight punchy kick samples! or rip them from tracks..

as was dicussed in another recent thread, VEC or a bit dated, and over processed but there are still some deadly kicks in there. get VEC 2 and use the UK trance Kicks . theres some nice stuff in there

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Originally posted by lowski get VEC 2 and use the UK trance Kicks . theres some nice stuff in there

tight, punchy, but maybe not that powerful...

I'll take the opportunity of this thread to ask a noobish question :

In Acperience 1 by Hardfloor, the initial kick line goes like

x---x---x---x--xx---x---x---x

It is then repeated, but the kick is more wet, more "deep" I would say...

How is this effect obtained ?

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Originally posted by DarkBax I'll take the opportunity of this thread to ask a noobish question : In Acperience 1 by Hardfloor, the initial kick line goes like x---x---x---x--xx---x---x---x It is then repeated, but the kick is more wet, more "deep" I would say... How is this effect obtained ?

You better post a sample because the only response your going to get is this:

My bad, I thought it was more classic than it appear to be : /

Here the sample : [[ LINK REMOVED ]]

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Originally posted by DarkBax My bad, I thought it was more classic than it appear to be : / Here the sample : [[ LINK REMOVED ]]

its a 909 with lowpass and slight velocity tuning on the last kick.


to get back to topic. a few clean 909 kicks with different decay are all you need.

thats what most common bassdrums come from.

you can process them with eq, compression, distortion, reverb, or layer them with other samples.

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Originally posted by DarkBax My bad, I thought it was more classic than it appear to be : / Here the sample : [[ LINK REMOVED ]]

thats sounds sooooo shit lol

sample packs will have somethin very close to that but better..

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Originally posted by jey thats sounds sooooo shit lol sample packs will have somethin very close to that but better..

yep but you should see how it sounds as the track evolves.

hardfloor are so fuckin ace...

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but the kick is more wet, more "deep" I would say...

A kick with more decay in the mids gets layered over the low kick.

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Originally posted by jey thats sounds sooooo shit lol sample packs will have somethin very close to that but better..

Aceperience 1 is an excellent piece of music, and proves that a tight, punchy kick has jack shit to do with a stomper.

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