I'm in production school, so I may not know as much as a lot of you do yet, but I learned something that i've been trying to figure out for a while now, and maybe it will help a few people on here.
What I wanted to know how to do was how to make my sub bass and my kick drums go together like you hear in a lot of modern hip hop/pop songs. The kick and the bass hit together for a really tight sound and the sub has about a 1.5 to 2 second fade... I know, it seems like something I should have been able to figure out easily.
How I did it:
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I chose the Kick sample that I wanted, and I chose a good Sub Bass from Xpand (I use Pro Tools).
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Then I got my kick/sub levels where I wanted them, and created a bus for the kick, and set the send fader at 0 dB and made it pre-fader.
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Next, I inserted a Gate plugin on my sub bass track. I then set that Gate to be sidechained to the kick bus that I made.
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Finally, I adjusted the release, attack, threshold, and ratio until I got a nice punchy kick/sub that faded out over 1.5 seconds. You should adjust it to whatever sound you are looking for.
I know it probably should have been obvious, but I'm just glad that I figured it out. Hopefully this helps someone!
Submitted October 04, 2017 at 05:40PM by Dr_HWBD https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/74b1bg/something_i_learned/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Wednesday, October 4, 2017