The ‘Pre-Transient’ Trick For Harder-Hitting Drums

Here's how to give kicks, snares and one-shot drums more punch and impact. Use layers of clicks, white noise, reversed percussion and other sounds to create 'pre-transients' that lead into the main hit.
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Same here haha

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Me too 😂

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[@garethcotton3919]

This is a very good tip. Another way to do this is to use something like split eq and turn the transient shaping tool down. Then add a compressor with a fast attack and release with the threshold turned down to about - 25db adjust the gain to about 15db and that's the one...

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This is something I do by default

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It is now

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It's amazing how a tiny little sound make our brains think it's harder sounding❤
Thanks for the technique buddy

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this is golden

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Nice! Doing this with snares for forever but not with kicks...until NOW!

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Never thought to do this with the kicks!

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Now this is a nice trick I didnt knew

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Thank you! I suck at drums and using fl studio but this is helpful even for a noob like me.

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this is a good one, know a few people who would be upset sharing this lol

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Another neat trick, added to the list ! 👌

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Nice tricks. Thanks for your tips or tricks in général

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i must try

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Yeah this is gold

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the whip effect

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The tascam 388 plugin already has this effect

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This is awesome!

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Thank you!

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Гениально. Спасибо ❤

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That earns a sub

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Thx

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Is this how drill producers make the kicks on drops hit harder?

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Fire

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Holy Molly thanks ❤❤❤

[@chetruane]

Could you use this with compression to reduce the transient of percussion without needing to use lookahead or an attack so fast it distorts the signal?

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🔥 fuego

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THX , and is there a full song with that FAT Beat at the end ?

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Great trick !!

[@churricardo1457]

But is there a more practical way to do this if you use the drum rack? Seems a little tedious

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Mmm ... nice!

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👏

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Yass

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What “piece” of the white noise is the best to cut for using this tip?

[@Gallamari]

is this effect also used in the kick of ransom by lil tecca?

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gah damn

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!!!!😊

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Thats pretty good, do they do this in DnB tunes?

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Yeah, you hear it a lot in EDM and bass music.

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Electro Flam

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Yeah, but it looks like the the mix with the fx is actually louder, too

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It's not.

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yooooooooooooo

[@Bob_Doge]

It's making a digital pocket of air

[@big_womp7764]

I completely disagree actually O_o
I think the transient is actually more prominent without the sweep cluttering everything up; you should leave some prefade before the transient to differentiate between the sweep and the hit
And you shouldn’t do it on every snare, it very quickly becomes fatiguing and takes up too much headroom lol

[@djthope9710]

I just reverse the kick itself 😅😂

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Perturbator must’ve seen this 😭

[@my_flow_beats]

Or Just reverse the kick before kick

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yoo I knew there was something fishy

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This is talked before here 😭

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Yep!

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i'd rather not program drums as individual samples... that seems insanely tedious

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or just make real music, and play the drums properly

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This is real music genius

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This sounds so good 😂❤oracle369