How do you make a techno rumble kick in Ableton?

How do you make a techno rumble kick in Ableton?

Techno Rumble Ableton (a.k.a. Rumble Kick)

1. Overdrive a 909 kick drum.
2. Copy the kick drum to a second channel, add (short) reverb to it, EQ out the highs and saturate it into a nice low sub bass rumble.
3. Then mix the kick and the rumble sub together and compress slightly to glue together.

What makes a good techno kick?

Start by loading up 3 separate kick drums into Ableton. Each kick should have a different character. You want one high-end kick with a very short transient, one mid-range kick, and a low rumbly kick. The idea here is to tweak the 3 of them until you get the sound you want.

Why is my kick distorting?

Sometimes kick drums and other prominent, transient-heavy sounds can change in character or distort after mastering if not properly controlled at the mixing stage. It often sounds better to add small amounts of compression at different stages in the mixing process than adding more at the end.

What makes a kick drum sound so big?

Front-and-center is a big, beefy kick. Since the kick drum has such high energy content, it goes a long way towards producing the perception of BIGNESS and LOUDNESS in a track. Often, you’ll have a kick drum in your track that you selected for its character… but then you realize its bass output is no good in the context of the rest of your mix.

Can you shorten the kick on a drum machine?

Besides, you can always decrease the release-tail (shorten the kick) in your drum-machine anyways, but you can’t easily do the opposite (lengthen the kick). As for the beginning of the kick, this is the part that gives attack to the drum. If the attack slopes upwards, it will sound soft, and likely a bit weak.

Do you need to compress a kick drum bass?

At this point its a good idea to compress the kick if it looks like a spikey mess. However, if all of the peaks are fairly uniform and gradual, such as in our kick, then you won’t need to compress it at all. If you do use a compressor, make sure the attack is in the range of 30-60 to preserve punchiness.