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How to get that deep floor-shaking kick drum?
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| Troglodyte |
Ok, I've got those TR-909 samples. Now what should I do with them in order to make them shake the dancefloor and hit you in the chest?
Like that in Solar Stone "Speak In Sympathy"? |
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| KilldaDJ |
reverb and decay.
its playing with the envelope...i accidentally created the effect u were talking abt...
reverb is teh key. |
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| Damie Mckeown |
Get a wav editor and play with the samples using a mixture of compression, distortion, cuting parts pasting others, reverb etc.
You can make about 15 different kicks from 2 |
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| Troglodyte |
| I'm playing with SoundForge. But no success so far. Used a lot of eq, compression, distortion... The sound gets more sturdy but still lacks in the bottom quite much. My desk isn't trembling while it kicks. And reverb... How can reverb can add a bottom end? Are there any special settings I don't know? |
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| DeZmA |
if you cant get more bass out your kick with eq then you are probably using a wrong sample. use eq to get more bass and compression to get that -in your face- sound.
I rarely use reverb on a bd |
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| Troglodyte |
| I downloaded samples from here. They sound ok to me. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
reverb and decay.
its playing with the envelope...i accidentally created the effect u were talking abt...
reverb is teh key. |
Good lord, no.
Reverb on a bass drum is a very bad idea in general. |
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| Luke Terry |
| turn up your speakers heh |
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| hey cheggy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Good lord, no.
Reverb on a bass drum is a very bad idea in general. |
reverb can work on a kick, as long as you cut the lows on the reverb so it just gives the higher frequencies. I don't think it would make a kick sound fuller though. |
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| Damie Mckeown |
Punchy kicks aint actualy bassy.
What I normaly do is take kick that isnt too bassy (more punchy)
and add some reverb, its a good idea to insert some extra silence to the end of the sample first so you get a cleaner tail. Make sure the reverb is only applyed to the higher frequencies or/then make the sample mono.
You could also shape an envelope over it so that the decay/reverb goes quiet quicker. Makes it sound alot nicer.
Then to get a little more punch add a closed hi-hat that isnt too sharp (or reduce the higher frequencies of it)and shape its envelope so it decays at the same time as the kick (this prevents the hat from carrying on just a little bit and sounding too obvious)although most of these kind of hats have a very quick ADSR.
You could even try it with a snare of some sort.
you can then add slight distortion or a limiter, you could even compress the sample too, but it might just sound louder and not as hard/punchy.
Then envelope the whole thing to taste and normalise if its still a little quiet.
Ill post a sample of the kick later. |
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| Shahar |
I don't think the reverb is the key for a punch kick..
Maybe take 2 kicks and HiHat and try to do something |
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