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I made this kick by layering 3 kicks together and compressing using waves api 2500. I had a ratio of 5:1 threshold of about 16db and made up some gain. Is it right does it sound big enough. The reason is whenever I make a track and i mean whenever people always say your kick is no where near big enough. Then they advise me to compress compress compress well Im lost because I did that in my last tune and people are still saying it.

PS sorry for posting so many threads had a week off just been sat around making music etc.

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Can�t listen to the sample right now, but maybe its not your kicks that are the problem. May be caused by to many disturbing low freqs. Havent heard any of your songs but just a thought.

Man, this sounds really distorted. Usually when you layer the kicks together you want to isolate the frequencies that you want in each kick with some EQ. I wouldn't drive yourself crazy with the kick thing, there are enough loop and one shot samples out there that sound really good.

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Originally posted by Bayou Boy Man, this sounds really distorted. Usually when you layer the kicks together you want to isolate the frequencies that you want in each kick with some EQ. I wouldn't drive yourself crazy with the kick thing, there are enough loop and one shot samples out there that sound really good.

yeah some eq, distortion or whatever and youre good to go

plus layeryin THREE kicks is alot, unless you know exactly what you want

So on the whole one shot percs thing do you guys make say a kick loop process that, make a hat loop process that, process snare etc etc. Or just process all toghether?

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Originally posted by Sonic_c So on the whole one shot percs thing do you guys make say a kick loop process that, make a hat loop process that, process snare etc etc. Or just process all toghether?

i dont understand your question
most of the time each individual sound require different processing if thats what youre asking

Straight up man, your gonna drive yourself crazy with this. Find a good loop with a kick that you like and use that. All of that stuff has already been eq'd and compressed already anyway.

Its not about how big kick, its about the right kick, which makes it all much harder

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Lol im gonna be ok just interested how others are doing things i process mine seperate. Im trying to get better at things so Im asking lots of questions about other ways of doing things.

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I hate doing kickdrums, i can never get them right, only a handful of times i have had a good kick in my tracks.

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Originally posted by Subtle I hate doing kickdrums, i can never get them right, only a handful of times i have had a good kick in my tracks.

Hell, if you get a good one stick with it. PVD has been using the same kick forever.

I find after a couple years of producing you have your own samples and self made kicks you reuse most of the time, which happen to be the ones that fit the best with the sound youre looking for.
Unless of course youre trying to be overly creative one day