How To EQ & Mix A Kick Drum

Published: 14 September 2024
on channel: KJ Melgoza
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Here I show you quickly how to attain a Metal Kick Drum Sound WITHOUT triggers using the tried and true technique of mixing!

00:00 Intro
00:16 Drum Bus
00:49 Raw Kick
01:04 Drum Gate
01:50 Multiband (Treble Freqs)Gate
02:18 Side Chain from Audio
03:24 EQ Shaping SSL Channel Strip
04:00 Kick Drum Clickiness
04:45 Kick Paper Honk
05:28 Tame the Tubby Cardboard
06:16 Make it a Pillow
06:47 Add some Comp/Expansion
07:27 Drum Leveler Voodoo
08:31 Final EQ pass
11:37 Transient Designer
12:31 Bass Exciter
13:42 More Compression
14:26 Saturation
15:12 Tape Saturation
16:10 Parallel Compression
17:13 Playthrough


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