Top 2 Techniques For Techno Kick Layering: Ableton Tutorial

Learn an essential skill in modern hard techno production. With layering kick drum samples in the right way, you will nail your next production with a punchy and crispy kick sound. This is an Ableton hard techno tutorial, but you can replicate this in any other DAW.

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Timestamps:
00:00 What you'll learn + intro
01:17 Knowing what does your kick need
05:21 Making a Azyr style kick drum with layering
11:50 Kick layering as an alternative to distortion and compression
15:51 First layering technique: equalization
22:13 Second layering technique: phase alignment
26:49 Another kick drum layering example

[PlayThatPopStory]

Thank you for this video! Your process for building kicks is more straightforward than others I've seen, which is something I had been looking for. I'm happy your channel is focused on hard techno production. Hope your channel keeps growing.

[markuruymagov]

So glad i found your channel. Your explanations are so good because of the introduction of examples that won't work. You also give the answer to the most important question that always arises when watching youtube tutorials as to why using a particular technique. Most of the music production youtubers don't know how to teach properly. They only show what they do but not WHY and what other workflows there are for comparison. So thank you very much for your effort!

[extunc]

Is there a link to the Vengeance Sample Pack you were reffering to? i wasnt able to find this specific one. Thx

[TheJohnsofDoes]

You aren't improving the phase relationships between the layers by removing the low frequencies of one of them. i don't know how many times i have seen this myth, but it's still not correct. you are reducing the correlation between the two sounds so they no longer have any phase relationship. that is not phase alignment. also, with filters the phase shift is nonlinear. it is only the low end that has shifted in position. the rest of the frequencies are probably less affected. flipping the polarity of the whole sound just reduces the correlation further at those frequencies in other sounds that interact within the same pocket of time as it(more on this in a bit). would be better idea if you actually intend to improve the phase relationships by using a nonlinear phase adjustor like a 1st or 2nd order allpass filter

Ultimately though, the whole phase chasing thing is redundant. if you improve the correlation between the kick and bass, then everything else is still lacking correlation with those elements. you cannot have anything approaching perfect correlation with complex sounds. it does not exist. better solution is to just increase the separation via amplitude, and then using things like saturation and light compression to make all those elements work together. the phase thing is a goose chase that very few people who speak on it seem to understand in any coherent manner other than that reductionist sinewave example

[laner]

So long. I forced to watch the vid and in the end learned nothing at all. People have a problem with finishing the tracks more than doing kicks. Also listener does not remember kick drum of a certain song.

[jaraluca]

Hej. Coś tu mordko jest nie tak. Ten bass ma dziwny click i ogolnie nie brzmi dobrze. Kick jest ok ale myslę że mógłby być mocniejszy :( sledzę twoje filmy i w duzej wiekszosci robisz super tutki :) żeby nie było :) pozdrawiam