Achieving the perfect kick can elevate your track from good to unforgettable, and that’s exactly what we’re aiming for. From selecting the best sample to advanvced mixing techniques – this a full guide for creating a perfect kick drum.
We’ll dive into:
00:00 – Choosing The Right Kick
1:53 – Kick Layering
2:43 – How To Level Your Kick
4:54 – All Magic Frequencies of a Kick Explained
6:42 – EQ’ing Kick Drum in Practice
8:09 – Resonant EQ Pocketing with Bass
9:21 – Fixing Kick’s Sub Bleeding For Clean & Loud Master
10:33 – Kick Compression & Attack Trick
13:48 – Multiband Compression on a Kick
15:13 – Sidechain & Why is it so Important?
17:39 – Secret Technique To Extract Perfect Kicks
This video isn’t just theory – we show you practical, step-by-step demonstrations that you can recreate in any DAW (whether you use FL Studio, Ableton Live, Logic Pro X or any other).
Whether you’re into dubstep, progressive house, future house, drum and bass, hip-hop, RnB, bass house, deep house, hard trap, or more, all of today’s techniques are universally applicable.
