I have another drum related mixing tip for you fine people today. Getting the kick drum to sound perfect in a mix involves capturing the right blend of attack (beater) and resonance (low end). If your kick drum is missing in the low end department, then today’s video is for you!
Artificial Low End To The Rescue
Sometimes EQ is not enough. If there just wasn’t enough low frequency information captured at the source, then there’s nothing helpful for you to boost. Enter a signal generator. You can simple use an artificial sine wave at a low frequency to blend in with your kick drum hits and you’ll have instant low end. Gotta love it! Take 5 minutes to check it out people.
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Favorite tip so far. Thanks for doing this Graham!
My pleasure Justin!
Never herd of a tip like this ever, all 9 so far are great tips.
For all you that use logic and haven’t figured it out, here’s how:
Create an aux track,
Add a test oscillator (under utility) and create a low frequency,
Like in protools use a noise gate after the signal generator,
Side-chain the noise gate to the kick drum channel (no sends needed),
Tweak the settings a bit and have fun.
Thanks for giving that info for the Logic users out there!
Oh wow, this is a really cool tip! but if your gate plugin doesn’t have a key function, is there anything I can do?
wow… that is really cool.. never seen that done before.. Graham.. thanx for all the tips so far, I have learned a lot… on this latest one, I am gonna have to figure out how to do it in Sonar, but it will be worth it.
Great tip, Graham. I haven’t done this in a long time…nice reminder!
If there’s no low end on the track, you can do all the 60 Hz EQ boosts in the world, and it won’t help. Great tip.
thanks for all the videos man! wicked stuff.
it’s worth noting pushing the dynamic range (on the gate) all the way up to get rid of the constant hum
please, how can i use this tip in ableton ??