KVR Audio

Giusmex · Post by **Giusmex** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:56 pm

hi guys
sometimes i hear from you some suggestions about this and that, and very ofter a consideration about the processing of a single track comes out; now id like to know form you which chain of effect ( ine lectronic music) do you apply to your kick drum track

thanz

Loki Fuego · Post by **Loki Fuego** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:17 pm

I rarely process my kick drum on its own given that the sample is high quality. What the use of that?

dark_virus · Post by **dark_virus** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:21 pm

I just filter out some subbass and add a touch o EQ, in case the kick sample has a "rich" attack and only when it's needed.

I prefer to process the whole drumtrack.

Nig · Post by **Nig** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:32 pm

Usually with a gentle amount of bit crushing, this can add a nice grit to the sound. And a little bit of eq'ing too after that.

Shy · Post by **Shy** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:43 pm

(sometimes) compressor and/or limiter with or without (usually slight) harmonic distortion -> (sometimes) allpass phaser and/or (slight) barberpole comb filter -> (sometimes, usually slight) flanger or chorus -> (sometimes, usually slight) delay -> (always, usually slight) reverb
equalizer (usually for fixing something) sometimes somewhere in the chain, but usually not.
In short, seemingly complex chain but not really, and often very little of that is used.

MrMagneto · Post by **MrMagneto** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:46 pm

compressor, equalizer

rhythmtechnologies · Post by **rhythmtechnologies** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:07 pm

if needed - tape saturate, compress & eq.

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:29 pm

Layering with sub-kick, sometimes distortion (Cubase Quadrafuzz) or other distortion stuff, Waves RBass, LA2A... Not much EQ because I only use samples and all of this are pre-processed and ready for use. I invest more time to find the best samples so I don't need too much FX.

@midnight · Post by **@midnight** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:54 pm

Giusmex wrote:now id like to know form you which chain of effect ( ine lectronic music) do you apply to your kick drum track

on the kick channel itself I have a channel strip, which has a gate, comp, and eq

and then all the drums are routed through a bus, which has a compressor, eq, and clipper.

meldavid · Post by **meldavid** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:49 pm

All the kicks I hear on Sean Tyas and Buuren podcasts are really extended on the bottom end and I get used to that type of kick. By comparison the raw samples I have don't have that beefy bottom end and aren't as phat. I've found compression helps to make the bottom end of the kick more extended but you need to EQ it afterwards. Mebbe I just need to get better kick samples, lol.

Andywanders · Post by **Andywanders** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:05 am

Two plugins that I frequently use on kick tracks are Camel Phat free and Rubytube.

Both are old...

Both are free...

Both have a low CPU hit...

Links...

http://www.xentronix.com/products/vst/camelphatfree

http://www.silverspike.com/?Products:RubyTube

They're both useful for more than just kicks too.

Andywanders · Post by **Andywanders** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:21 am

Sorry... The CamelPhatFree from that link is no good.

Try this one...

http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?pl ... ree&id=554

ryandfl · Post by **ryandfl** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:26 am

Loki Fuego wrote:I rarely process my kick drum on its own given that the sample is high quality. What the use of that?

Yeah, I try to use samples that require minimal manipulation (Goldbaby). It's worth the investment to reduce EQing, compressing, bit crushing, so on time for me. I do add a some high pass EQ to the whole drum track/group though.

Bronto Scorpio · Post by **Bronto Scorpio** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:26 am

Andywanders wrote:Sorry... The CamelPhatFree from that link is no good.

Try this one...

http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?pl ... ree&id=554

Or even better: The link to the Camel audio site: http://www.camelaudio.com/camelcrusher.php
It's now (Since some years) named Camel Crusher and has a few new features though

And you are right! It works great on kicks (or drums in general)

Cheers
Dennis

Andywanders · Post by **Andywanders** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:37 am

You're right Dennis. And I use that too. But I just love that easy, simple, three-fader, instant kick satisfaction that I get from the old version.

Cheers, Andy

how do you process your kick tracks?