I've been producing for a few years now. While I've figured a lot about 808s, I've never cracked some things. How to get my 808s very fat and subby, yet still very tonal.
Note selection is often mentioned, and I find E or F works well for me.
Gain staging is obviously important, the 808 should be taking up a lot of headroom to be fat, and should be a lot louder than the other elements to be loud relatively as well. (It should also have the low end to itself.)
Processing is also often mentioned, but saturation and distortion seem to weaken the bass (although making it more tonal). Clipping to make the 808 fatter does help.
I think additive synthesis may be what I need, what do you guys think?
Here are some pretty good examples of what I'm looking for:
https://youtu.be/-m3OyDOjcRo?t=32
https://soundcloud.com/mr_carmack/freeeeakcarmack11#t=0:12
https://soundcloud.com/fynt/mr-carmack-drop-get-silenced#t=1:19
Here are examples of what I am NOT looking for:
- Sub-ish 808s:
- More traditional hip-hop 808 kicks:
Submitted November 30, 2016 at 03:59AM by allstupidkant https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5fo98a/discussion_and_question_fat_yet_tonal_808s/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Tuesday, November 29, 2016