How to I give my gabber kick more "punch"?
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How to I give my gabber kick more "punch"?
I can distort the hell out of a 909 with Guitar Rig or CamelCrusher and make it sound nasty, but it lacks that front end punch that makes it sound like a kick and not just a noise. How do I do that?
- jimmusician
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well, what i do is lately i grab about four different kicks and then overdrive the same channel, and then get the fruity multiband compressor and boost the bass to the max threshhold
in ableton simpler you can filter your kick. Most people use the low pass, but i more like the high pass. Bloody overdrive from fruity is a very nice thing to add. And like other say here: lots of multiband eq and compression. Find a good compromise between those.
May not be helpfull cause i like my kickz noizy :s
Oh yes, 2 kicks at same could help to, or a kick layered with a bass
May not be helpfull cause i like my kickz noizy :s
Oh yes, 2 kicks at same could help to, or a kick layered with a bass
- DISEMBOWELLED
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you need to layer your distorted kick with a super-clean, punchy kickdrum, the kind you would hear in a trance track (no seriously...). this will make the initial "punch" of the kickdrum. your distorted sound will come after, making the body and tail, which will give the overall kick its character.
depending on what kind of sound you want, you might want to highpass your distorted kick, but if you want the tail end of it to be subby then don't do this
then you will need to sidechain them so the dirty kick has its gain reduced while the clean kick is playing. if you can't do this then try playing with the ADSR settings on your distorted kick, give it some attack so its quiet during the punch and then loud afterwards.
Seriously, layering is the most important thing to do. in my experience once you've put crazy distortion on your original sound no amount of eqing is going to give you the punch/definition that you are looking for.
depending on what kind of sound you want, you might want to highpass your distorted kick, but if you want the tail end of it to be subby then don't do this
then you will need to sidechain them so the dirty kick has its gain reduced while the clean kick is playing. if you can't do this then try playing with the ADSR settings on your distorted kick, give it some attack so its quiet during the punch and then loud afterwards.
Seriously, layering is the most important thing to do. in my experience once you've put crazy distortion on your original sound no amount of eqing is going to give you the punch/definition that you are looking for.
- Sense of Direction
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Seriously, layering is the most important thing to do. in my experience once you've put crazy distortion on your original sound no amount of eqing is going to give you the punch/definition that you are looking for.
Nah man just: kick -> EQ(I usually boost around 100 Hz) -> Distortion (fully overdrive it if you want)-> EQ(boost around 100 Hz again and up in the higher ends to taste) -> Compressor/Limiter(just to keep the volume down)
= all you need
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no, eqing will help to an extent, but if you really want proper punch you should layer with a clean kick. especially if you're using a heavily distorted sound to begin with.
or you could set your distortion so it bypasses the low frequencies (below 150 Hz ish) and only distorts everything above that. if your distortion vst doesn't allow this then you can send the audio to 2 separate channels and use hi pass / low pass filters on each, then mix them together to taste.
or you could set your distortion so it bypasses the low frequencies (below 150 Hz ish) and only distorts everything above that. if your distortion vst doesn't allow this then you can send the audio to 2 separate channels and use hi pass / low pass filters on each, then mix them together to taste.
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