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Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:30 pm**

All my kicks are so weak!!!!
PLease help

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:31 pm**

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:36 pm**

is not what you kick, but how you kick it.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:46 pm**

Hmm any tips? I'm a newb.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:50 pm**

good kicks on disco 12" records

"take your ass to the store with that"

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:18 am**

v0ins wrote:All my kicks are so weak!!!! PLease help

What kind of kicks do you want? How's about http://samples.kb6.de/downloads.php - loads of good drum machines

Then you need something to make em 'smack' & 'punch' - like a good drum compressor:

http://www.tinbrooketales.com/archive/f ... A_v1-1.zip

This one's PC as you didn't specify what platform you were on...

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:25 am**

v0ins wrote:All my kicks are so weak!!!!

So is your punctuation.

There is no apostrophe in "kicks" and one exclamation mark will suffice.

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:26 am**

Rogue Scrunt wrote:good kicks on disco 12" records

"take your ass to the store with that"

ditto + 873 trillion

get a couple records or mp3's and sample not one but two hundred kicks

layer, mix and match compress eq etc etc

when you finally find one you like

do it all over again and find another

peace and good luck

a

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:53 am**

i will kick your head in FOC

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:26 am**

Many times the sound of a kick sample that you like, might not sound as "big" when you use it in a piece or a mix.
Something to keep in mind along with the good advice above, is that using eq, compression, and other sound designing elements on your kick (within the mix) will help to develop not only your sense of what kicks (or other sounds you're using) you like, but also how those sounds fit into the rest of your sound.

Maybe think about it like this. You love the sound of your Les Paul guitar through your Marshall stack. It sounds like God. But now you're in a band where the other guitar player has the same setup, (or similar) and the sound (of the band) is getting muddy, or otherwise heavy in a certain tonal area. Maybe you would start to think about using another guitar or amp to influence the tone for a more diverse overall sonic sound, say a Tele through a Twin, whatever.
Anyway, isolating sounds that you like is very important to developing samples and sounds that you like, but recognizing how these sounds fit together is part of the art of the mix. Some of the best sounding kicks, (for example) sound lame and weak on their own, but really cut through a mix and also bring the boom in a particular mix.
HTH.

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:28 am**

Tone Deft wrote:

HAAAAAAAAAAA!

beat me to it

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:37 am**

aqua_tek wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:
HAAAAAAAAAAA!

beat me to it

Heh, me too, this is the exact kinda crack I was gonna make when I saw the title of this thread

heh heh

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:54 am**

bleepsnbreaks wrote:
aqua_tek wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:
HAAAAAAAAAAA!

beat me to it
Heh, me too, this is the exact kinda crack I was gonna make when I saw the title of this thread heh heh

i needed the laugh!

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:15 am**

here ya go. this tutorial has a recipe for fat kicks

http://sonictransfer.com/kick-drum-desi ... rial.shtml

it's all about layering and eq'ing.

1 part kick
1 part subby bass
1 part hi hat or snare
equals one fat kick.

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