Reviewing student kick drums
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- When students make TECHNO and other genres based on wild, distorted kick drums, I give them some exercises to spend some time meditating on their kick drums. In this video I review the homework of one such exercise.
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Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:48 Moving to Ableton
2:18 Kick 1
7:11 Intermezzo about bass phasing
7:58 Kick 2
11:10 Programming on the downbeat
13:00 Kick 3
14:35 Programming a macro to the timbre
16:31 Highpassing the kick
18:02 Kick 4
21:04 Fixing the fundamental in Kick2 VST
23:59 Conclusions
26:35 Bootcamp info video
Conclusions:
1. Ensure there's a fundamental frequency between 40-55Hz
2. Don't stack fundamentals
3. Bold decisions = awesome
4. Choose limitations
5. Basing effects on kick gives coherence/glue
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One of my favorite techno producers once told me - “Just steal your favorite kick from your favorite track”. I never looked back. 😂
Running a subwoofer; I started to roll off the low @20hz.
I looked at my speaker specs - which stated my sub response is down to 20hz - so theres my logic - roll off what the speaker won’t reproduce…
Imagine my surprise when after rolling off the low end; my sub bass became full and much more powerful
I don’t really hear people mention this. The difference was like night & day
Pretty exciting actually 😆
She's very talented I would say.. Amazing how she really emphasises and adds pleasing frequencies to all that.. I would say I learned a lot from her..
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I love these indepth analysis from work from your students. Especially making signature kicks is hard. Very usefull content thank you!
Liked Kick 3 the most. Great video with useful tips!
Wow, you have awesome students! I actually liked the last kick as it was originally, I would just put another very bassy 4/4 kick under it and just use the original kick as sort of industrial pseudo-bass-line.
Nice idea!
The third kick was damnnnn great without erosion
Your a good teacher i was at a music college around the year 2000 and remember getting chastised for playing with distorted sounds on monitors you are doing well
Thank you very much for another great tutorial video!!!
Love the "dirt" on kick 3!
This one was the coolest and most creative one for me, would be so cool to have the dirt come in during some high energy moments or after a break - so awesome
i saw everything! i am going deep to your videos, from the oldest to new. nice!
The best for hardtechno kicks? Good 909 and Saturation! Ableton Sat on Hard or analog an crank that drive up. To add an Overdrive Layer of your Main sample can also give some more drive.
An top Layer for punching through the mix is sometimes also useful
very cool kicks
Thanks ocscar
I love how you just commented a mistake in kick programming by "now what you're getting is beating" thats real Fletcher from Whiplash energy
First kick drum actually sounds like Rebekah.
Your student sounds like she is a lover of gabber/hardstyle! Kick one sounded the most "mainstream", but I liked her use of EQ's to try to get that "harder" sound.
i'm really interested in who that musician is who sent you the kicks. i'm very curious to hear complete tracks of her. meets my taste a lot :)
Good student you've got - Kick 4 could just have a low sub/-bass
Kick Three gives me early Ant-Zen vibes, i.e. Synapsescape, Asche, Converter et al.
Im waaaay late to the party but kick three was running super hot/clipping within the signal chain. I thought youre not supposed to do that, as it also introduces distortion but i might be wrong... sounded fat tho😂
Her accompanying texture is nice. The delay on the third layer spoils everything for my taste, it makes it cheap and compromises the depth of the other layer. A different timing and filter delay may have worked.
Kick 3 cut the sub frequencies behind the fundamental with a final eq.
Kick 4 sounds high passed
I like to put a small shelf boost at 110hz; cut everything behind the fundamental frequency, usually use max 4live colour limiter on the end of my chains
I know I'm late, but wouldn't the massive DC offset in kick #3 be problematic?
Yes, phasing issues
Kick 3 rocksx
I see that a lot of thoses kick's have dc offset on the meter can you fix that easily ?
High pass filter (like a x4) at 20Hz
It's a dotted eighth note not a triplet feel.
Your student sounds a lot like isabellas twisted fantasy
You could've just upped the first bar on harmonics to bring the sub back, my dude.
Please reconsider your use of background music (or at least the level of it) as you’re speaking. Unlike
many others on YT what you have to say is actually interesting and informative ...so why the distraction?
I can see no problem here o.O . I always use studio headphones for listening these videos so separation is clear. What you use to listen these videos?
I reckon she was monitoring through laptop speakers...
Nah, she's advanced enough to know that's no good.