Rockin'DoublZ wrote:my bad, the cat that made this beat said that he uses breaks on all his beats, but im just talikn' about his kick drum and it's all on his tracks, basically the boom-bap kick drum sound is what im tryin' to get at...
@mastakilla, maybe a subtle 808 to put more umph in the kick???
@Ill-Green, on small speakers they do sound like your ordinary stock kit.., bump his track on a big monitor and you can hear the difference.., sounds heavy and full... peace
I wouldn't use an 808 to fatten up a kick, I would use EQ and compression. Boosting between 50-100hz and applying some compression with a slow attack time to let the transient of the kick peak through. The snap of the skin can get crushed with a compressor using too fast of an attack.
To me... this kick sounds "boxy", I would usually cut some freq.'s around 250hz to get rid of that sound, but... if you're trying to get this boxy sound, you can do the opposite and boost those freq. By using an EQ with a 6db boost around that 200-250hz area with a fairly narrow "Q" (these are all parameters that should jump out at you if you're using an equalizer)
Again, it's better to start out with a good sounding Break kick in the first place. But, like i said, throwing an 808 behind the kick is just not the way I would go about it. You see a lot of stupid FL studio beat demos where guys are layering drums, like 3 snares to thicken up the sound. Usually all the drums they're starting with in the first place are garbage and they're never using EQ, compression, or reverb. I'm not saying you can't layer drums, I do it a lot but it usually has some logic behind it. Like a snare and a clap, the clap makes the transient cut through the mix and the snare provides the thickness. Begin with trying to improve the KICK itself before you just throw something with bass behind it because it doesn't have enough bass in it.
