but then you realize its bass output is no good in the context of the rest of your mix. Often, you'll have a kick drum in your track that you selected for its character. Since the kick drum has such high energy content, it goes a long way towards producing the perception of BIGNESS and LOUDNESS in a track.
Check out any hip hop, rock, pop or dance track on the radio today. 'But, why should I bother learning how to make my own kick drums?' you ask.Well, because, the kick drum is the corner-stone of almost all modern recordings. because any audio engineering tutorial is better with a Bob Saget pun.įor this tutorial we are going to show you how to take a mediocre, boring, flat, or just plain wretched sounding kick drum, and magically engineer it into a bass-rattling behemoth.
