Tuning drums

[Artie_Fufkin]

I suppose anywhere where you'd combine the kick and bass like an 808 kick or maybe a kick/fade in bass like sidechained style/electro/happy hardcore/a certain sylenth preset I'm thinking of you could make them tuned to each other quite easily and it might sound best that way.

Do any of you just use 808 kicks without tuning them to be in key?

[RmoniK]

I suppose anywhere where you'd combine the kick and bass like an 808 kick or maybe a kick/fade in bass like sidechained style/electro/happy hardcore/a certain sylenth preset I'm thinking of you could make them tuned to each other quite easily and it might sound best that way.

Do any of you just use 808 kicks without tuning them to be in key?

i do.

[Artie_Fufkin]

In that case, do you have any other instruments in the sub frequencies?

[skimpi]

if a drum has a distinguished, prolonged note then it needs to be tuned. I dont really tune them tho as the ones I use i presume are already tuned to a note so i just change the not till i get one i am happy with, i dont mess around with cents or any of that shit tho lol

[RmoniK]

In that case, do you have any other instruments in the sub frequencies?

Yeah. In my defense, i rarely have long kicks. Usually just short snappy 808s for the clicky tud.

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

never done this never saw the point :/

[Eat Bass]

In that case, do you have any other instruments in the sub frequencies?

Yeah. In my defense, i rarely have long kicks. Usually just short snappy 808s for the clicky tud.

same man. or sometimes depending on the trackl if the drums play a role in melody such as with toms or anything then i tune them.

i use waves heq to tune my drums because the eq tells you what fundamental note the hit is peaking at so its very easy to just adjust the pitch and monitor it with heq.

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

TO be honest i pitch my kicks a bit til the sound nice or w/e but i dont think i tune them to the tune ever.

[Icetickle]

In that case, do you have any other instruments in the sub frequencies?

Yeah. In my defense, i rarely have long kicks. Usually just short snappy 808s for the clicky tud.

same man. or sometimes depending on the trackl if the drums play a role in melody such as with toms or anything then i tune them.

i use waves heq to tune my drums because the eq tells you what fundamental note the hit is peaking at so its very easy to just adjust the pitch and monitor it with heq.

Never thought about checking the note in the EQ.

[Artie_Fufkin]

I needa get me one of these magic eq's

[RmoniK]

I do believe voxengo SPAN (free spectrum analyzer) gives you the note as you hover over the spectrum.

[Eat Bass]

Dmg equality is a good one too. I demos it and its sweet only thing is it takes a lot of CPU to run on a lot of tracks and is expensive. Also it seemed a bit too in depth for my needs. I like my Eqs and stuff I use on every track to be very intuitive and quick.

Waves heq isn't a bad price and it is very simple to use and sounds great especially for adding character with the vintage models, but it also has a transparent digital mode as well

[Icetickle]

Live 9 EQ8 does the trick for me.