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But seriously how, I tried using the search but I couldn't find any info on making the kicks sound as focused as they do in this track. I know the principles of making them, I tend to just heavily distort a 909 or something but they always sound a bit floppy and weak even after they have been pitched up.



The kick im on about is at like 5.27 i think.

Cheers guys!

Subby kick
filter*
bitcrush
filter*
compress

* Seperately envelope hi- and lo-pass filters.

Do some drastic EQ'ing on the kicks you've made

jonahmann wrote:Subby kick
filter*
bitcrush
filter*
compress

* Seperately envelope hi- and lo-pass filters.

I tried this once but bitcrushers make it sound less like a gabber kick, seems to work bette with warp or foldback disortion. The overall effect was ok but they still sound a bit crappy.

Blinkesko, i think you might be right tbh, perhaps there is just too much bass.

I have a similar sound in a Sylenth patch if you are interested...

Take a depe long 909 kick. Distort it to fuck, EQ heavily. Like additive EQ'ing. Just find some good mid/high end frequencies and push the fuck outta dem.

You could also just make one out of a squarewave in your synth. Just make one like you would a regular kick, except use a square and then process it more.

It's not that hard.

I'm more into industrial hardcore type kicks though.



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LAWD

Really try this it works. Try making a kick the standard way in your synth of choice and instead if a sine wave use a square.

Thanks for that reply genevieve! bassbum thanks for saying what genevieve already said.
Ill give all this a go tomorrow.

909 kick then distort and eq over and over again.

This is in Logic but any other distortion works fine

Back inna day there was a program called Stomper that was ideal for this stuff. Turns out that Stomper is actually still around, in fact...

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/stomper/index2.html

Sinestepper wrote:Thanks for that reply genevieve! bassbum thanks for saying what genevieve already said.
Ill give all this a go tomorrow.

No prob man. Just don't pitch them up if you want a higher pitch (iif you're using the distorted 909 method). It's about boosting higher frequencies. When you pitch them up, you also pitch up the fundamental and word, then it's gonna sound weak. And long tails are important.

You could also just take a clean kick and a subby one and layer those, make a heavy distorted bass sound, sidechain that to the kick, route both signal to a compressor and distort them together some more :3

making a gabber kick from a 909 aint too hard, if you have guitar rig try out some fuzz pedals and wet/dry mix them with the split tool

however no matter what plugins you use in 90% of cases your kick will have a great tail, attack or body to it but lack in other aspects. this is why layering is so important to get a huge nasty kick. just tweak your kick fx chain until one part sounds good, bounce that, then tweak again until you have multiple versions that can be cut up and layered into one big kick.
i know it's hardstyle (aka shit music for shit people) but headhunterz explains this a little bit in this video



important part starts at about 12:00

You can make ur own in Massive by putting a fast envelope to the pitch. Sounds more cool than distorting a 909 imo.

909 kick, send it to Ohmicide.
Play with it until it sounds good.

kicks + distortion, this is a more retarded question then how do I make skrillex?

Thats what i thought tbh, its something that never sounds quiet right when ever i do it though.

Show me yo' kicks braw.

Sinestepper wrote:Thanks for that reply genevieve! bassbum thanks for saying what genevieve already said.
Ill give all this a go tomorrow.

I think Genevieve read my post, tried it out and when he heard the brilliance of it, he spend the rest of his life designing a time machine. Just so he could go back and take all the glory I was to revive for gifting this idea onto the world.

@future Genevieve: You can now die in peace.

@realtime Genevieve: Better hit the books son.

You can also take a short kickdrum and create the distorted tail section of the kick with a synth. Just a tip.

your welcome
http://www.thecorestylerz.net/vst/hardcore-kicks-vsti-2