Drum Sample
How can I give kick drum samples punch to break through a mix without overpowering other drums?
I'm using samples of acoustic kits to write drum tracks to my industrial / death metal tracks. The kicks always seem to get buried, which takes away from the percussive effect of syncopating the kicks with bass or guitar rhythms. How can I bring my drums forward, and keep them punchy without clipping?
you have to EQ them slightly to get a percussive click and get a bass formant.
400-600 hz should be boosted alittle bit to give you a click.
roll off the lows
and then boost wherever you want the bass formant to be at.
also to keep them in front you can send more of the kick track to your comp/squeeze track or send less of the kick track to your 'verb track.
but in general the kick drum will always stand out from the other drums becuase its at a different frequecy range... maybe the floor tom might interfere if you have the kick tuned that low but you just need to have it isolated from the bass... maybe gobo the whole kit.
if your kit is tuned sloppy then you might need to retune it.
if you are using midi to trigger it then you might want to buy hardware for the sound you want. the DM5 and procussion work good for industrial and metal. also the drumstation and the ER MKII is a cheap effective simple workhorse.
as for software... just buy max msp or reaktor to make your own drum modules... you'll never need to buy soft synths if you have reaktor or max msp becuase you can make your own that are 1000x better than consumer grade software.
as for syncopating the kick... i've never really heard a kick or snare syncopated but if your a jazz drummer than you might get away with it.
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