Making Kicks Kick Azz

take a solid kick layer it in Zone one by one (the same kick) and adjust the start point of each sample in zone, you'll hear a phazing effect, now the thing is when the zones are set to start off always at the same start point (no zone mod) the phaze is synced on every hit so it's not phazing just in a "phaze", play with the zones untill you find a phase you like (its to easy to get a phazing sound to it if you overkook it), but set it right and you kick will become much bigger (but it will sacrifice a bit of solidness due to the nature of the phaseing, thouw it though a compressor and your kickin azz

the 2nd tip

here's something called: New York Mix Trick

Take your drum tracks and send them through a buss. Compress the buss and add it back into the the mix until the compressed drums start to become audible. How much of the compressed drums you bring in is a matter of taste, do the same with a subtile distrotion and it will make your drums pump and bite quite a bit more ..

glide wrote:take a solid kick layer it in Zone one by one (the same kick) and adjust the start point of each sample in zone, you'll hear a phazing effect, now the thing is when the zones are set to start off always at the same start point (no zone mod) the phaze is synced on every hit so it's not phazing just in a "phaze", play with the zones untill you find a phase you like (its to easy to get a phazing sound to it if you overkook it), but set it right and you kick will become much bigger (but it will sacrifice a bit of solidness due to the nature of the phaseing, thouw it though a compressor and your kickin azz

the 2nd tip

here's something called: New York Mix Trick

Take your drum tracks and send them through a buss. Compress the buss and add it back into the the mix until the compressed drums start to become audible. How much of the compressed drums you bring in is a matter of taste, do the same with a subtile distrotion and it will make your drums pump and bite quite a bit more ..

Great tip Glide enough compliants more tips and workarounds using the gear in hand. It has been awhile since tips been posted.

This is something that I normally do. Never adjusted start & end points tho or distortion, however I do like to drive the signal on the analog domain which adds distortion. Will try this. Nice one! Try the NY trick in analog & in digital.

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->Resample your kick thru the convertors and overdrive a bit, then layer<-
Also a good trick! Ecpessialy when you have an MPC60 or 3k

Cheers Ikke.

Do you mean sending out the signal analog then coming back in analog (using the MPC converters)? I use a 4k btw.....[/code]

to keep the momentum, here's one for snares .. again using zone layer & zone start in program (zone start really is a samplist delight!!,


Revreb on Snare
say you have a dry snare and you want some reverb on it, instead of running to the next fx unit at your dissposal, load/sample a snare with reverb on it now layer these and adjust the zone start on the reverb'ed snare to start rather late in the sample zo late in fact that all you get is the reverb from that snare sound (this is of corse user-definable as sometimes leaving a bit of the actuall snare in there will sound kool, but the focus is on reverb here) now adjust the zone filter, level & pitch for the reverb so it will fit nicely with your dry snare then edit the amp adsr to decay the reverb or whetever (if you need a longer reverb: do a loop withing your reverb sample), add gentel mod to give it a little varriation and now you've got a reverb on your snare that will most likely sound way cooler and more authentik than what your rack fx could have done,

I spotted this tip in a keyboard magaizne reweiv of the mpc pioner DJ-Shadow himself a few years back

That's a great tip Glide! Thanks for sharing that.

33 HERTZ wrote:Cheers Ikke.

Do you mean sending out the signal analog then coming back in analog (using the MPC converters)? I use a 4k btw.....[/code]

Yepz. Convertors on MPC's ( Akai's in general ) are extemely good!

I normally use an Apogee Rossetta 800 to convert my samples tho. I guess Akai converters have their own sound