ADDING BROOMSTICK BASS TO FL STUDIO HOW TO

A good rule of thumb here is to preserve as much of a tail-end as possible to keep the length of the kick, rather than trim it down to a quick-sounding 'pop'. A good looking horn-shaped kick doesn't necessarily mean it will sound the way you are intending. Be sure to actually listen to your results here. You can try to guestimate it by drawing an envelope yourself, or you can manually decrease the amplitude of each cycle until it resembles the final product you had in mind. What we'll try to do is producer this horn-shaped waveform manually. Its best to keep in mind that most kick drums follow a similar basic percussive adsr envelope - that is, the curvature of the waveform from the front to end should resemble a horn. Envelope Amplitude Adjustment - Ok, our kick sounds pretty decent now, but it probably needs a bit of level adjustment. If you do use a compressor, make sure the attack is in the range of 30-60 to preserve punchiness. However, if all of the peaks are fairly uniform and gradual, such as in our kick, then you won't need to compress it at all. ДЄt this point its a good idea to compress the kick if it looks like a spikey mess. But make sure it has a long slope downwards toward the mid frequencies. Otherwise, if there isn't much high-frequency content to begin with, its best to leave it alone or perhaps nudge up the highs a bit, peaking around 8000hz to 15,000hz to give clarity. We have to scoop out much of the mid-to-high frequencies, beginning at around 1000hz or else it will sound too bright and percussive. You may not want to remove too much in this area if the goal is a higher frequency (say, 100-120hz peaked) techno kick, or garage rock-type kick drum.ДЇor the upper-highs, in this particular case, there is way too much 'airy' presence in the kick. If it sounds too 'nasal' or 'boxy' and not 'thuddy' enough, bring it down in this bandwidth range until it sounds more like a stomping thud. Next, we may want to scoop out the 'boxy' sounding frequences around 130-300hz. It should have a decent, discernable peak. It should look like a nice fluid hump that peaks, and then rolls down in both directions from the fundamental frequency (usually 70-90hz). You'll want to even-out the bass-frequencies, around the 50-120hz area. What's important here is, again, not going overboard.

The Great Equalizer - This step may seem like a given, but watching the mistakes beginners make during EQ, it bears detailing. Don't go overboard or else you'll add a lot of unnecessary rumblage that just ends up taking up too much amplitude without sounding any bigger. The key here is adding just enough bass at around the 50-90hz bandwidth to get the perception of fullness. If you don't have a bass booster plugin like MaxxBass, hopefully you can pump up the bass to an acceptable result during EQ at the next step. It'll calculate what it thinks is the missing harmonic bass frequencies and add them even if they aren't much there to begin with. Its basically a sub-bass-to-mid-bass synthesizer. Boost the Bass - I'm using Waves MaxxBass for this step. That is to say, keep the fundamental bass elements close to the center, or else the kick loses much of its power.) That's because later in the game you may want to add a bit of subtle reverb or other effects, and dealing with a stereo image to start with is a good idea (but be warned, when adding effects, try to keep the stereo image NARROW especially in the bass frequencies. Stereoize - First, lets turn this into a stereo wav file. Agreed? Ok, well lets see how we can whip this flabby bastard into a mercilous dancefloor-filler. Scroll down to the bottom to hear the final result

Here is a truly pitiful sounding kick drum. These techniques, among other secret recipes, were used in producing many of our kits, such as for our Ultra Massive Drums series.ДЄllright lets go step-by-step. At any rate, you are unlikely to escape the need to take a kick, and pump it up to the next level at some point during your recording. but then you realize its bass output is no good in the context of the rest of your mix. Often, you'll have a kick drum in your track that you selected for its character. Since the kick drum has such high energy content, it goes a long way towards producing the perception of BIGNESS and LOUDNESS in a track. Check out any hip hop, rock, pop or dance track on the radio today.

ADDING BROOMSTICK BASS TO FL STUDIO HOW TO

'But, why should I bother learning how to make my own kick drums?' you ask.Well, because, the kick drum is the corner-stone of almost all modern recordings. because any audio engineering tutorial is better with a Bob Saget pun.ДЇor this tutorial we are going to show you how to take a mediocre, boring, flat, or just plain wretched sounding kick drum, and magically engineer it into a bass-rattling behemoth.

Adding broomstick bass to fl studio