Ways to sound more REAL

reddvinylene · Post by **reddvinylene** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:18 am

What y'all reckon?

i've just been doing this in ableton with pretty good results:

1. start with a nice fat kick with body and punch already
2. split it into two seperate tracks, on one compress heavily to create a really smacking clicky sound, on the other filter heavily to leave a more resonant boomph, possibly tune down a bit for lower freqs.
3. Lightly to medium ratio sidechain compress to the main sample
4. Layer with a deep warm sub-bass

And there you go, a lovely compression pumping mix with those massive smacking kicks.

Hope this is helpful to someone out there!
Ben

Anybody care to share their techniques?

Cryptic UK · Post by **Cryptic UK** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:50 am

Grappadura · Post by **Grappadura** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:55 am

what i´ve been doing lately is take an acoustik kick and layer it with an 808 kick with a low pass filter on the 808 kick. Play with the decay of the 808. Great results, fat sound, and easy to do. (And it sounds more "real").

inakiesarte · Post by **inakiesarte** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:09 pm

Roland tr 909

SimonPHC · Post by **SimonPHC** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:33 pm

do you mean REAL in a literal sense? like a real live recorded kickdrum? or REAL in a slang sense, you know, keepin' it REAL?

you need different techniques for each.

ChiDJ · Post by **ChiDJ** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:27 pm

Multiple sidechains for bass, lead, vox, drums with varying triggers on the down beat, upbeat, offbeat and in between beats at 1/4's, 1/8's, 1/16's, 1/2's and wholes which are controlled by a master sidechain that trigger's itself as it cycles through each instrument, trigger and beat signature sequentually.

As real as it gets.

T-

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:46 pm

Operator

parisapartment · Post by **parisapartment** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:46 pm

Hey dudes am i the only one who thinks this is remotely useful? Thanks for the tip dude.

contakt321 · Post by **contakt321** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:49 pm

I am sounding real already, but I really worried about keeping it that way. Can anyone help me keep it real?

Interesting technique. I also do the layered 808 w/ a sample trick. You can really do it with any acoustic drum sample and any synth-y, low frequency kick. The sampled acoustic drum provides the character and the synth-y provides the body and low end punch.

UKRuss · Post by **UKRuss** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:32 pm

I've moved back to using audio samples for kicks...sod all this mucking about with layering this and that. I wish I had the bloody time!