What is wrong with my TR-909 kick?

Affiliation · Post by **Affiliation** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:09 pm

I have tried playing with the tune, attack, decay, warp modes, eq, compression and other things. I can usually get better results, but here I dont know why but it just doesn't seem to fit.

Finished the track last month, but really want to go back and fix it. Dont know where to start...

http://www.affiliationsound.com/Affilia ... cating.mp3

any comments, suggestion?

musick · Post by **musick** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:42 pm

To much low in it / to loud? Try a compressor on it?

kaffein · Post by **kaffein** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:55 pm

Seems to be a lot of varying modulation and velocity on the kick, thats probably your intensions though... For a "deep style" style like this I would probably at least put some compression on it to balance it out...

There also seems to be another instrument occupying the low freq range as the 909, I would cut out the freqs the 909 occupies, on that other instrument(s).

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:14 pm

i always put an EQ before the compressor on the kick and take out a lot of the mid frequencies. this helps the kick sound like its coming from underneath you