HOW TO EQ A KICK DRUM! 🔥 #drums #Shorts #2023

[wvlfsn]

It sounded better bypassed, but the frequency areas you were talking about were correct :)

[humblehombre]

Nice. I love that sound. This could not be more simple and concise.

[MrCool]

Ssl drumstrip is perfect for individual drum channels. Combined with an eq you can get the sound you want pretty fast. The transient shaper isn't that good on it but the lmc compressor built in is perfect. Same with the built in bass and treble exciters which have individual drive knobs. You can target specific frequencies to saturate and get some crazy punch with that thing. On kicks and snares too. I use the channel strip for hi hats and room though and compress the sht out of it and have it at a low level. Then just group the tracks with an ssl bus compressor and you got fat drums. Maybe some tape saturation right after to catch transients. If using a slow attack on the bus compressor. If you don't have enough punch after all that try using a transient shaper to balance the room and individual hits. Spiff is the best especially on high settings. It can bring back transients in a controlled consistent way after compression. Modern studios do this I'm telling you it's the secret. If you make hip hop you don't need to do this as most of your samples come processed anyways. Only do it if your recording yoyr own stuff. All you need for hip hop is a bus compressor and some small room reverb. Drum room reverb BEFORE the saturation compressor is what will give you the most authentic studio sound. Reverb after compression on the drum bus sounds fake. So does reverb on individual channels. For acoustic drums they should have natural room reverb. That's why I conpress the sht out of the room track. And leave the individual channels punchy and crisp. Trust me this is the way.

[memeswillneverdie]

No this isn’t “how to eq a kick drum” this is how you eq’d that specific kick drum on that specific song try this on a jazz record and you’ll see what I mean, or an indie record, or reggae record.

Everything you do must serve the song, audio engineering isn’t just slap some preset on this thing and bam you’ve got a hit, no, your goal as a mixing engineer is to be a problem solver, your job is to fix what you don’t like, bring out what you do and most importantly make the song work as best as possible. Why remove the low end? What if there’s already a lot of high frequency information in the song, do you still boost 8khz? This type of fast food style information in regards to audio engineering is getting so many people lost and more confused than they started it’s damaging to anyone who wants to actually learn how to mix because they’ll spend a while wondering “but why doesn’t my song sound like that, I did all the things they told me” mixing is a technical skill it takes years to get good enough to have people pay to have you mix for them, it requires unfathomable amounts of study and practise like any complex skill although that’s not as clickbaity or as shareable as “HOW TO MIX ____ LIKE THE PROS!!!”

[Usinga-wlte]

Bro 50- 70hz is where the tone is for each kick😢