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Re-Creating the "Perfect" Kick
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| DJRYAN™ |
this of all mornings I think I stumbled across the "perfect" kick.. and yes, its by Deadmau5 on a recently uploaded WIP.. But nonetheless, how does one achieve such a beautiful kick? Please enlighten me..
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| Lunar Phase 7 |
You're serious?
That is the perfect kick?
Almost no low-end, and a hat layered on top of a pretty flat sample?
Am I missing something? |
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| DJRYAN™ |
| I don't know.. might seem simple.. but the way it punches through that bass, the smoothness, the richness, the non-abstrusive low end.. It has it all.. I can seriously say that's the best kick I've ever heard.. And its not because Joel made it, its based on my preference for sound.. no matter how simple it is.. Its purely elegant and I'd like to know how to make something like that.. Not a variance of this kick.. I wanna know how to make this kick.. |
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| stewart.m |
| hours and hours of tweaking and eqing i bet |
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| Richard Butler |
Nice kik, not the best I've heard but your'e right it's pure, unobtrusive, sits well and cuts through.
Thing to bare in mind is some guys have access to some serious gear, like Cranesong hardware at £4000 a unit.
I must have spent weeks of my life tweaking kicks but never found I've made one as good as certain pro's.
The EQ software I have just doesn't do the job. There has to be a reason there's a market for ultra high end gear, this old argument that gear is irrelevant doesn't clinch it for me. Like saying you could be a top skier with 2 planks of ply. |
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| jayxthekoolest |
I can make kicks like with sylenth1. It's pretty straight forward. You don't need to find the perfect sample or the jomox hardware synth as posted above. I've told you guys how to do this multiple times before. You kept ignoring me. I guess ignorance is bliss.
As for high end gear. It does make a difference, but it isn't going to make a night and day difference. With native plugins Joel could make almost the same thing. |
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| DJRYAN™ |
| quote: | Originally posted by jayxthekoolest
I can make kicks like with sylenth1. It's pretty straight forward. You don't need to find the perfect sample or the jomox hardware synth as posted above. I've told you guys how to do this multiple times before. You kept ignoring me. I guess ignorance is bliss.
As for high end gear. It does make a difference, but it isn't going to make a night and day difference. With native plugins Joel could make almost the same thing. |
well share with me the links to whatever it is that you were describing as fas as making a kick. I'm curious. I haven't made kicks before. I just browse through singles. |
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| Beatflux |
| quote: | Originally posted by jayxthekoolest
I can make kicks like with sylenth1. It's pretty straight forward. You don't need to find the perfect sample or the jomox hardware synth as posted above. I've told you guys how to do this multiple times before. You kept ignoring me. I guess ignorance is bliss.
As for high end gear. It does make a difference, but it isn't going to make a night and day difference. With native plugins Joel could make almost the same thing. |
Do you have any kick presets? |
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| Torihada |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
how does one achieve such a beautiful kick?
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I would say find yourself a very short and stabby kick sample for the low end, like an old disco kick sample, less than 200ms, then maybe layer a short and low sine under it for sub.
Sounds like it has a cut up hihat choke sample layered on top which gives it that nice "air" or presence. To me, the part thats cutting through the mix is that top end, so try layering a nice acoustic hihat choke sample on top and cut it up tight to make a nice attack portion to the kick.
Then maybe run it through a tight room reverb and reign the stereo image in central.
Thats what i would do anyway, I'll try it.
Oh, and hi.. :) |
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| Mel David |
| That sounds like a kick from a Rock Drum Kit from a General MIDI soundbank. |
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