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WeeklyBeats.com / Music / Robroy's music / Back 2 Jack
Simple, and perhaps crude club stomper. Heavy kick, some filtered guitar bits and bass. Messed around with the drums & perc layering but came together pretty quickly. I tend not to get caught up too much in fiddling with the mix and sound design, if it sounds about right I'll go with that.
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Ambiance in a 4/4 kicker track works well. I can't really hear what the background pad is, is it a sample from something?
Great mix, did you use sidechain compression? The kick really blasts through nicely.
Great mix, did you use sidechain compression? The kick really blasts through nicely.
Thanks, yes side chained it, but I've also changed the sampler. This is a bit geeky but apparently different samplers handle the initial transient differently (yep, who knew) which for kick is a big deal. So Impulse in Ableton (used here) is better then Drum Rack and sampler which opens a bit later and miss some of the initial transient. Is this technically true? No idea but since I switched to using Impulse (I've consistently used sidechain) the kick is performing better.
Ambiance in a 4/4 kicker track works well. I can't really hear what the background pad is, is it a sample from something?
Thanks, I've used a couple of pieces for the pads, one is a sample in sampler which plays a fx stab with ping pong delay, the other is a default Ableton Simpler patch
Whoa you are blowing my mind if that is true. I'll have to experiment.
RobroySo Impulse in Ableton (used here) is better then Drum Rack and sampler which opens a bit later and miss some of the initial transient. Is this technically true? No idea[/quote wrote:
Whoa you are blowing my mind if that is true. I'll have to experiment.
Here's the link to the article https://www.f9-audio.com/blogs/tutorials/f9-free-production-kick-drums
and the direct quote where he talks about the samplers is "• Not all samplers are equal - The best way to use these is drop them as audio files onto your page ( and turn all warping off, obviously ) .. if you are using sampler VSTs or in built ones remember that only a few sampler engines are built for transient / drum work - Machine , MPC and Battery are the very best - kontakt is good too , but place it in ‘perfect ‘ mode , if you are in logic use Ultrabeat / Drum designer over EXS 24 , If in ableton use impulse over drum racks or simpler/sampler . I don't know as much about over DAWs but basically if you have a device that meant for drums only then use it instead of multipurpose samplers ."
