Is there anyone out there who has managed to get a fat bass drum?
Like the ones many double bass drum drummers have, for example.
I’ve noticed that the frequencies blend together with the keyboardist’s, so you can hardly hear the bass drum anymore. It gets completely drowned out…
Hi @swissdrummer,
It may be easier to EQ your keyboardist’s sound to get out of the way of the kick. Here’s an article on frequency masking: Frequency Masking: All You Need to Know About It
In this case, EQing the keyboard track is most often how this is handled. There are other ways, too, such as side-chain compression, or multi-band dynamic EQ’s on your band’s full mix. But I think the easiest solution would be to carve out space for the kick in the keyboardist’s patches.
And, within Sensory, you can also, of course, add EQs and FX to your kick sound that would make it fatter and punchier. Attached is a session with an FX group that you can paste into your kicks’ FX panels and tweak to taste. See video below for how to paste it from one kick sound to another.
bigger-kick-sound-fx-group.sp2 (4.8 KB)
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Thank you very much for your tips.
How can I integrate or insert your kick sound into my existing set?
You can drag and drop sounds from the library, or you could copy/paste the FX chain into your existing kicks FX panels (as I demonstrated above). The .sp2 attached in my reply above only includes the first kick I demonstrated, so here is a new version with both kicks:
2-punchy-kicks.sp2 (7.5 KB)
After you download the above.sp2, it will go to your downloads folder, which you can bookmark in the Sensory 2 library:
Then you can navigate to inside the .sp2 and drag and drop the kick that you want into your set. You can do this with any .sp2:
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