By cyrus
Wed May 25, 2005 10:14 pm
smoove.
Cool, glad i helped. Yeah, most of the info i find on things like that are just random websites along my internet travels. I try to soak in as much as possible cause sometimes you come acroos things that might not be relavant at the moment, but are well worth it. You gotta book mark tons of shit too cuase youll never find it again.
Futureproducers is one of those sites that sometimes you gotta take some things with a grain of salt; there are alot of newbs. BUt overall thats my second favorite producer site next to this one. I like studio-central third....alot of emu info there.
peace
Cool, glad i helped. Yeah, most of the info i find on things like that are just random websites along my internet travels. I try to soak in as much as possible cause sometimes you come acroos things that might not be relavant at the moment, but are well worth it. You gotta book mark tons of shit too cuase youll never find it again.
Futureproducers is one of those sites that sometimes you gotta take some things with a grain of salt; there are alot of newbs. BUt overall thats my second favorite producer site next to this one. I like studio-central third....alot of emu info there.
peace
By cyrus
Wed May 25, 2005 10:16 pm
metafor wrote:Thankz, I'm glad someone appreciated it. lol
I thought it was funny too.
By cashstill
Thu May 26, 2005 4:22 am
j_case wrote:how to get a tight kick and bass
Making Drumz sound punchy!
Making your drums punchy the first thing is compression. if you don't think your drums are punchy enough then the chances are you are not compressing them right. you may be overcompressing (bear in mind that many of the samples that you use may be compressed already) or you might not be compressing enough. as a rough guide, i go for about 10db of compression, ratio of about 7:1, attack time between 0.15 (for snares) and 0.45 (for kicks) and a very quick release time. the compressor i use is waves C1.
if you don't really understand compression that it is a good idea to read up on it. the sound on sound site has got some good articles as i recall. the next thing that can help to punch up your drums is a bit of overdrive/distortion. don't go overboard with this, but mess around with some light distortion and it will do a hell of a lot for your kick drums especially. predatohm is my tool of choice... last thing of course is EQ. for the 'snap' in the snare i usually boost around 2k and for the body of the snare i usually boost a little around 250-300hz (too much of this and you've got a whole lot of mud though...).
for the kick i make sure that it is layered between the sub bass and the main bass - i usually end up boosting it at around 100hz and cutting it below 80 and at around 400 (or wherever my main bassline is hanging out). i also tend to give it a little push up at 2k or so to bring out the high end of the kick to give it some definition. hi-hats: loud hi-hats help to make your tune stand out and definitely do a lot in terms of perceived loudness. try a touch of overdrive... ok, hope that's useful.
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