How do YOU get your badass techno kick drums?

[massplanck]

200 different kick sounds as your kick.

I would be interested in hearing that.

Sounds doubtful to me.

nay. each kick as you go along.

[John Vella]

Try using Native Instuments Battery and layer 3 or 4 kicks together and take different freq ranges from each and use Battery to change em up even more....

then add the compression and maybe a nice clicking sound (from some beefed up highend off a kick-- makes a "click" sound) off the top of each one to REALLY make the kick penetrate....

-j

[go|plastic]

Most of the time I use sampled kick drums which I compiled from sample CDs and then just layer them (most of the time there's only 2 or 3 kick drums) and mess with the envolopes, eq and compression.

Also, I recently had a play with that Albino softsynth from LinPlug and you can get some really fat sounding kicks from it... definitely worth checking out!

[heavy beats]

to get the punch.... I run it thru my sonic maximizer, then thru my 163x compressor

[Dustin Zahn]

Ian and I punch each other in the chest while recording it. Then we compress and distort the blowz.

[Evil G]

i recently started using a jomox airbase into a tfpro optical compressor, and it sounds waaay fat compaired to anything i've used before. i also run the kick into the sidechain of my bassline compressor, to auto-juggle the low end and keep the kick and bassline from clobbering each other with minimal eqing.

[mux]

Already posted my description - not doing it again. :)

http://www.blackoutaudio.co.uk/phpBB...ic.php?t=16156

(careful, it's long!)

[dirty_bass]

I sometimes drive an old ford transit van, at about 55mph into a large transport container, stored in a particularly large warehouse, fro extra reverb.
Really good for those big booming kicks

[dan the acid man]

I sometimes drive an old ford transit van, at about 55mph into a large transport container, stored in a particularly large warehouse, fro extra reverb.
Really good for those big booming kicks

only to realise you forgot to turn your mic on :lol:

[dulash]

dirty bass :clap:

Is there someone among you who tried the jomox Mbase 01 or other equipment fromfrom jomox?

[djkurt]

have programmed some mean ass gabba kicks on the supernova.scott brown/nephyte etc type kick drums

[180mph]

usually i'll use a 909 kick(eq'd very bright) layered with a nice punchy sampled kick, open them up in a reason sampler and split them onto 2 or 3 seperate channels. one of the outputs goes through a malstrom synth (distortion & filter added), the next goes direct to the desk, where it receives the old reverb treatment (pre-fade) and the third is usually compressed and hevy eq'd. this gives me a lovely upfront techno kick. and the differant channels give me full control over whether i want a full on distortion kick or a nice acidy reverb job!

[Ritzi Lee]

dirty bass :clap:

Is there someone among you who tried the jomox Mbase 01 or other equipment fromfrom jomox?

my kicks are from the airbase.

I just did the following:
- Thight compression.
- A wide cut between 400 - 900Hz
- Gaining upwards.

Then you'll get a nice deep kick with a soft kind of distortion.
Similar like you hear in all the classic techno / acid music. :)

[Primitive]

Sample it from records.

[DJVirulent]

With a good filter envelope and a parametric EQ you can turn anything into a kickdrum.

[MikeDust]

i use the fairchild and the 1176 compressor and the cambridge eq of the uad-1 studio pak sometimes the l2

[Evil G]

how many people use reverb on their kicks?

i've been trying out some plate reverb with very short decay. i can tell it's easy to go way wrong this way, but used in small doses it thickens without introducing too much mud.

[Mika Silo]

I experimentated with using reverb on my kicks in the past, but I did't gave me the results I was after.. I never use verb on my kicks nowadays..

[massplanck]

how many people use reverb on their kicks?

i've been trying out some plate reverb with very short decay. i can tell it's easy to go way wrong this way, but used in small doses it thickens without introducing too much mud.

a small bit of reverb on your kick can do wonders to fill out your sound. You dont want to much happening in the 300-500hz area though.g

[slavestudios]

i layer at least 2 kix & have them boosted quite far apart i the frequency range.

a real solid mid kick, then a sub kick that i try to keep tigh.
phasing can sometimes occur but it can be removed via eq