TobbaTee´s Studio Stories: Bass drum sound

So @jensenhawkins2168 asked about how I achieved the bass drum sound for my cover of In Waves by Trivium. So I made this, first ever video with my own voice. Awkward as hell, but here we go!

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Metal kick sound is literally drum ⬛️🟧😂

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Is this also basically EQ on logic

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The EQ (equalizer) mentioned at 3:28 and onwards are probably similar to EQ in Logic. The DrumLeveler plugin is something else though. It would probably be possible to do much of what that plugin is doing by using a gate to reduce the sound from the rest of the kit in the bass drum mics. And then a compressor to increase all the levels while compressing the highest ones, thus achieving a levelling of the sound levels. It’s a lot more work though 😅