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Hi There !

Today i wanna explain you how to make some punchy Bassdrum for your electronic Music production.

For this first we need some Plugs and your DAW . I using Ableton Live 8 for this and a handfull Plugs to make the Bassdrum big and punchy .

So lets start with our lesson …

Load into your empty midichannel the D16 Groups Drumazon Plugin (its a emulation of the legendary Roland 909 drumsynth) and do the following settings for your drum …

at first turn off the internal sequencing and the internal pattern mode  in the upper left corner of the plugin

then we going to the Instruments wheels of the Bassdrum Channel and making the following settings

keep the level on the middle and the attack to the lowest point(skrew it to the left side till its on the bottom.

the tunewheel we move to the 4th marker from left side the decay wheel to the 5th. the pitchwheel we also keep in the middle (6th marker) and at last we skrew the time depth wheel to the 5th marker. Now it should looks like here :

Ok- lets go to our Midichannel and draw some notes to hear how it sounds …

On Drumazon the Bassdrum is on Note C1 – so lets make some 4/4 Beat and hear how its sounds …

sounds not bad or not? ok to make it punchy now and let it sound like a professional one we need some plugs to make it big …

the first one is a eqalizer – i choosed Fabfilter Pro-Q and do the following settings :

making a lowcut at 17 Hz with a Q-Range of 0,900. with the next marker we going to 250 Hz and doing a Q-Range of 14 on -10db and the 3rd marker we set on 5800 Hz with a Q-Range of  1,2 and + 3db. so it looks like this :

The next Plugin we use is Stillwell Audio`s 1973 with the 3-mic Drum Preset.

The last one we need is a compressor. I choosed Fabfilter Pro-C.

on the preset menu in Pro-C choosing the parallel compression- like here :

and now your bassdrum is punchy and phat

To let it sound much better use my “Mastering while producing” Tutorial

At last step we making a group of our plugs we used and save it to the Ableton Library , so that we can use it in future Productions

For the lazy Peoples i made a Ableton Preset of 2 different 909 Kicks and put it into this Tutorial – load it down extract it and copy it to your Ableton Library like here :

Ableton>>Library>>Presets>>Instruments>>Instruments Rack>>”your Preset”

Drumazon 909Kick Ableton Preset @ Rapidshare (dont forget you need all Plugins to use this Preset)

Have fun with this Tutorial and if you want sending me some of your samples you made – if it sound nicely i put it to the Tutorial …. Cheers PlugsToday

If you wanne hear the results of my kick and Mastering Tutorial  take a look to this short sample here :

Today i wanna explain you how to make a really powerfull Mastering while you are producing your Tracks and what it  is clean and warmth .

Step 1

opening Ableton with a doubleclick and going to the MasterChannel

when the Masterchannel is highlighted you have select them sucessfully.

Now you can put effects to them .

Step 2

Now you going to the Abletons Plugin Library and choose Fabfilter Pro Q from their .

Now we doing a lowcut on 20 Hz and a highcut on 18 kHz

When you ready it should looks like this

Step 3

Now we choosing the following Plugin : From the Variety of sound The Nasty Series _Nasty HF_

and select the Mix Brilliance 1 Preset. ready

Step 4

in the next Step we need from Stillwell Audio the 1973 Eq and select on them the 3-mic Drums Preset.

Step 5

Now we need from Brainworx the bx_control Plugin. On the plugin we skrew the monomaker knob to 59 Hz and the stereowith to 172% to get a bright stereosignal.

Step 6

repeat Step 3

Step 7

in the next step you need from Fabfilter the Pro C Compressor Plugin where you choose the Tighten Classical Warmth Nh Preset from the Mastering option in the Menu

Step 8

On this Step you need from Softube the Tube-Tech CL  1B Plugin. Use the Preset Final Mix Warmer and turn the sidechain bus selction to external.

Step 9

The last plugin you need is a free one . The (sm)exoscope .The best analyzer/visualizer plugin for waveshape-Analyzing/virtualizing  in realtime i know.

on this Plugin you should do the following options :

Timeknob to – 0.002, AMP Knob to 0.467, Internal trigger Speed to 7.842, Retrigger Thres to 100, Sync Redraw and Freeze to OFF, DC Kill to on . on the channel button you can flip from left to right to look how thi signal flow on the both channels . The Masterchannel should go down to -6.5db to get no clipping and to much damaged peaks …

Step 10

Now you can start making Music with a powerfull, bright and clean Masteroutput. What is really important is that you go down with the Channelvolume of every channel and using the (sm)exoscope to control your signal but dont forget to use your ears too to make your sound horny

To use this Method while you producing your tracks, you need a powerfull machine to handle it with your resources. you can also use it after your producing is finished, but remember to my last words : all channels down and put them slowly up and control the signal in the mix with ears and exoscope …

I hope i could help you with this Tutorial and makes your Proction bigger, much phatter and powerfull like one of the Pros … Cheers PlugsandPlay …