Making Thiccc Kick Drums 🍑 | A Sound Design Tutorial feat. denise Sub Generator

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Hey internet! Today we're here for a sound design tutorial all about kick drum synthesis using Parawave Rapid, Serum, Dune, Falcon, or whatever you prefer and a handful of other plugins to make sine basic sine wave kicks into something much more interesting and fun!

There are also some great free plugins out there to help you along the way, and take you to the top of kick mountain glory!

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▼▼▼Signalizer▼▼▼

▼▼▼MRingModulator▼▼▼

▼▼▼Punisher▼▼▼

▼▼▼Noize 2▼▼▼

▼▼▼Cool Free Samples▼▼▼

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0:00 Howdy
0:51 Today's Guest
1:25 IMPORTANT FREE TOOL!!!
1:55 Getting Started
3:35 Putting A Ring On It
5:18 Where's The Beef?
7:00 Spicy Seasoning
7:37 Adding Some Grit
8:38 Clipping (FREE THING!)
9:44 Squeezy Cheesy Glory
11:14 Closing Thoughts

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[VenusTheory]

How do you like your kicks? 🍑
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[umanoid]

Man. Watching your sound design chops makes me realize how little I know or understand sound design. I’ve been making music for forty years and I’ve mostly used presets(as a starting point) and adjusted to taste. It’s always been good enough for me and doesn’t take away from making tracks. People that do sound design are also good at it so why not use the sounds that people spent a lot of time designing? That being said I have been spending some time making kicks and other drum sounds as samples. This tutorial really drive home some great practices.

[TheBigLou]

Another VST, always good on percs: Disperser - to tweak the punch to perfection

[lynzilla]

sidechaining MRingmodulation in ABLETON

> Put MRingModulator on your kick
> Put a sampler with a hat on a new midi track
> Open the drop down that says "Master" by default
> Select Kick from the list
> the box underneath which is usually empty will have the option of sidechaining into the Mringmodulator

(Ableton does not support VST3)

[tnwl]

Eyyy! Signalizer shoutout :) I've been using signalizer for years and it's always treated me well.

[JeiShian]

thanks for the tips and the links to the free plugins!

[Spunkbreaker]

Man, this is the Best kick sound design on YouTube. Really good, thanks!!

[particlejim]

Excellent video! My brother has been begging me to put together a big pack of kicks for him so this video is definitely going to help me to not just make the same boring sine kick 50 times over :D

[byoken]

I get the best results by layering. I feel like I have better control of the sound using audio files. I'd recommend creating a folder with samples that are good for layering, and this applies to everything, not just kick drums. Also layering a foley sound with low end can make your kicks or percussion sound big and organic.

[notsure]

Until yesterday, I found Bitwigs E Kick underwhelming, but if you put it through Kilohearts multipass, put two transient designers at 100hz or so and also in the upper mids and put a non linear filter in the post FX with an envelope assigned to the cutoff, then just as some saturation to it (SPL Twin Tube sounds good) it will sound good enough.

[powershift_]

Thanks! Making a track with only a couple of recorded sounds as a challenge at the moment, drums are still pretty new to me so this helps a lot!

[PatrickSchoutenMusicArtist]

Always funny to see you talking into the head in the background ;-)

[eternal]

youre the best man these vids are so helpful

[lupinjit]

2:15 is why this video deserves a like

[SpeccyMan]

Glad I watched this video as it turns out I already had a coupon code for this plugin and didn't know it. It appears the free code is retrospective as I found it in a denise plugin I bought some time ago from Plugin Boutique. Freebies are always a good thing.

[LaymensLament]

Great video as always! I did the learning.

[marceloribeirosimoes]

BTW, I hear a dark punchy transient first then the hihat(ish) high-end clicking after that.
Don't you?
I suggest you this really cool plugin - Nanopulse Transient
I was echeptic at first but, after a couple of hours playing with it, WOW.
It's really cool!

[airy_]

Your microphone attract my attention more. Which one do you use?

[LFPXX]

Thanks! I'll try to follow this tutorial, but will only use Ableton Suite stock plugins. Maybe Corpus for Sub Generator, Spectrum Analyzer for Signalizer, Frequency Shifter for MRingModulator and Compressor for Fet. But adding noise is more complicated. Googled some options and found Add Character Max For Live Device.

[zhexum]

Love this video. On at least my third viewing. Curious, why not just layer in the hi hat sound as a sample (I'm using pigment to make my kick) instead of using the ring modulator?