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Can't get this kick sound

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  • 05-11-2010 6:52pm
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    off.the.walls
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtXa1lCVzUM trying to reproduce the kick drum sound thats in the intro.. its not a really boomy bass sounds its more of a dunno thin bass sound like theres no resonation off it if yaknow what i mean... tried eq going to try micing up from the side that the kick pedal's hitting instead of normal kick drum micing.


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    Seziertisch
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    Augmentation/replacement are your best bets when it comes to achieving similar results.

    Replacement has been common for a lot of metal/heavy music for a long time; fast fills can get messy when the mics bleed into one another, separate samples solve this problem. And working with separate samples allows you to take liberties with eq and compression that you might not otherwise be able to take.

    Augmentation would involve triggering a sample/multiple samples off the one hit e.g. using the initial attack of one sample and the body of a number of others. This allows you to achieve some great sounding tailor-made results.

    Otherwise, a lot of pro hardrock guys do stuff like placing an even deeper kick drum in front of the regular kick and micing that as well. The Yamaha subkick has a lot of fans as well for those kinds of genres.


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    krd
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    It's probably a programmed drum. A drum sample.

    Or drum replacement at least.

    If the shell of your kick isn't giving you that sound, you're probably not going to get it. You could probably find a drum sample that sounds like it pretty quickly.


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    scorcoran90
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    sounds like there's another layer on top of the kick,
    scratching on guitar maybe?


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    krd
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    Real drums are dead anyway. It's all cardboard boxes these days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN7IfJrkDo0


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