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Ways to sound more REAL
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:18 am
by reddvinylene
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?
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:50 am
by Cryptic UK
no
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:55 am
by Grappadura
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").
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:09 pm
by inakiesarte
Roland tr 909
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:33 pm
by SimonPHC
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:27 pm
by ChiDJ
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-
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:46 pm
by Moody
Operator
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:46 pm
by parisapartment
Hey dudes am i the only one who thinks this is remotely useful? Thanks for the tip dude.
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:49 pm
by contakt321
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:32 pm
by UKRuss
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!