Make Your Own Kick Drums - Punchy and Deep Kicks

Building a kick from the ground up gives you so much more control over the tone and punch, it's also easier than you might think!
I go into lots of detail in this video but the basic principle takes only a few minutes to learn.

You can follow along on any synthesiser which allows editing, but I am using Xfer Serum to make kick drums.
Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro (I exclusively use beyerdynamic and recommend the whole DT Pro Range)

[fancha]

This guy deserves some royalties to all our tracks 😀😂

[galenhoffman]

I cannot express how thankful I am for you and your existence. Other channels just didn't seem to explain it in a way I could easily process, but you explained it perfectly.

[Uranicmusic]

Finally, another sound design video! 😍

[arnevogel]

Finally, someone on YT doing this PROPERLY. Thank you so much. Every other video on this has BASIC flaws like not using the coarse pitch modulation right or is not showing on the further processing like saturation. Keep on doing this stuff.

[daemeonation]

Did he do one on snares? I watched another one on snares but this is the only guy I trust now.

[meetra]

I really like this sound design series you've been putting out, I find it really useful to better understand things I already knew (or I thought I had). It would be great if you could make a video (or more, if necessary) about creating acoustic-like sounds, as pianos, guitars, flutes, etc.. . Anyway, thank you for these awesome videos :)

[mhenke]

I rarely leave comments on youtube but I wanted to leave this comment for you: your tutorials are fantastic and I am learning a great deal from them. Continue the excellent work! Very simple, straight to the point, and a lot of complex topics covered. Thank you so much for helping me get started on my musical journey!

[markostalaful]

I think you are the best explainer I've ever seen. How clear you speak and make order of what you explain.
All this together with the knowledge you have and the quality of your videos makes your channel one of the best related to music production.

[klinn]

u look like the guy from the first spiderman movie s villians son

[devarni]

Great and thank you for the great video! I will definitely test it! For some reason you always think of what you already have at the end. Sure you can use Kick 2 but basically it doesn't do anything different than what you can do with Serum

[cmp]

Dude I just discovered you but you are bringing so much clarity and useful, digestible, applicable information to the start of my music making journey. When I started I was downloading sounds from splice like a mad man. Now I’m starting to design all of my own sounds to my own liking. Thank you man. I hope you keep making videos. You’re helping a lot of people out, seriously.

[JimJuno]

4 years into production and coming across something that big after so long felt awesome 👌

[ILoveSweetWaterMelon-tisq]

Punchy kick:


Basic sound objects: Sine wave.
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Pitch bending and duration: From 330-50 hertz in 0.0-0.1 second to 50-40 hertz in 0.1-0.5 second.
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Fade out and duration: The sound of sine wave smoothly fades out in 0.1-0.5 second.

The technique is easy.

[antonblam]

Man this tutorial is pure gold, so easy to understand even though I'm just a beginner. Please keep doing videos like these as much as you can :)

[qahrmusic]

Your thumbnails are eye-catching.
Awesome tutorial btw.

[AbhayRajan]

I have learned a lot from the sound designing series,
it would be great if you add the summary on what did in the video in the description, this actually will be useful.

[owens.]

This is super helpful!! I love sound design and I know I’m limited with the kick samples I use. Now, this makes everything limitless!!

[alexperry]

I'm not even at the point in my learning where I would need to make my own drums, but this video is also great for just learning the sounds that add up to a kick - thank you!

[djcato]

I love your content man. I use fruity loops so honestly I’ve found that your channel is one of the most educational for me! Much love to you and yours! Stay the grind! Great video 👏👏👏

[matteoperron]

i fucking love this guy, so soothing to listen to. Not to mention the great way he teaches