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My personal challenge was quite small, I wanted to make something I still like so I just made a beat without hi hats (excluding the one in the sample on the intro). It prob seems minor but I normally use a lot of hats so it was out of the ordinary for me ☮️
 
i tried to make my own drum break, put a figure 8 mic between the kick and snare and compressed the hell out of it and distorted it. then added the sound of an explosion on the first kick. I tried to rap for the first time. I have to say it wasn't very enjoyable. Pretty frustrating. Tried to make the sample sound "glitchy"
 


For this one i tried to give room for different instruments for the lead, for different parts of the song. Allso i used new effects and didn't use the ones i normally would.
 


i´m an ableton user and so i used "beat repeat" which i usually never do. I recorded a few minutes and turned knobs.
then i played drums in midi which i usually add as wavs, no quantize. Lastly I picked vocals from tracklib and added it for some type of hook.
 
Hey All, I feel like my drums don't sound as good as they could on my tracks so I tried to use side chaining. I haven't done that in the past so I watched a video to see it explained and tried to do it. I like how it cuts out the other tracks which I really liked. I still don't think my kick is kicking hard enough but I tried. I also started with just kick and played the chops to the kick which is opposite of what I usually do. If anyone know some good videos on how to make drums punch let me know. It would be greatly appreciated. Hope all are well.



Peace, Hugh
 


Yo, mainly just used the sample. Added drums which i tried to programme a bit differently from usual, and limited it to stock fl plugins, a lot of which i hadn't used before.
 


Hi ! I used for the first time quantization on my drums. Also I tried a bit of polyrithm with a guitar licks in 5/4 and guitar chord in 7/4 and lastly I only used an Ableton drumrack, no homemade one.

Peace.
 
Bick Brannigan said:
Hey All, I feel like my drums don't sound as good as they could on my tracks so I tried to use side chaining. I haven't done that in the past so I watched a video to see it explained and tried to do it. I like how it cuts out the other tracks which I really liked. I still don't think my kick is kicking hard enough but I tried. I also started with just kick and played the chops to the kick which is opposite of what I usually do. If anyone know some good videos on how to make drums punch let me know. It would be greatly appreciated. Hope all are well.



Peace, Hugh
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Bro, best way I know to make the kicks go off it's to put a EQ on it. Ableton has a lot of good standards EQing that make the kicks bump. Also, overlaying makes them go even harder.

Peace
 
Yo what's good peps?


Been cooking up this evening.

I chopped the sample like I normally do.
But I tried a different way to play the high hats for my drums.
I also added a continues sampled pitched down bass note through out the track and the VST FM8 Arpeggiator synth for some extra textures. Which is something I don't normally do.



Had to see if it would work with an Acappella



Tarboosh's live beat making session was Dope tonight 👍

:salute: 🖖 ☮️
Peace. Mox
 
I usually do all my drops with the Ableton Push and stay away from the pencil ( I like the DJ feel). I used the pencil today and didn't hate it.
 
was at a gear and instruments store... with B-Dog... and B.O.R.... < he played a drumkit and I recorded it on my phone :)
I just held it to mic. at home and chopped it up.
the kick is me tapping the mic.. I then mostly handplaced them.. which mighta given a bit of a messy result..
did the the whole track yesterday so had no time to listen for things to improve on.
and there's some more recorded sounds..
oh, like Karma Chameleon was playing in the backgound at that store and that's the distoterted vocals you hear.
and while recording at home my phone rang and it seemed in the right key.. so I put that in thee aswell.
was fun!

pz!



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This was pretty much the first time I ever separated the mixing and arrangement phase and it made managing my workflow like ten times easier. Normally I mix as I go and it takes me like a week to finish a single track, whereas this took about a day. I also was a lot more careful with my sound selection. Instead of layering a mess of sounds I stuck with a couple of claps and a couple kicks. Honestly, it suited the track's subtly a bit more. Lastly, I used to be really afraid of layering samples, but tried it here and it worked fantastically. Normally when I work with samples I try to arrange them with my own note sequencing, but I realized since they are in the same scale it doesn't matter and I can do whatever the fuck I want :D

All in all a fun week!
 
Bick Brannigan said:
Hey All, I feel like my drums don't sound as good as they could on my tracks so I tried to use side chaining. I haven't done that in the past so I watched a video to see it explained and tried to do it. I like how it cuts out the other tracks which I really liked. I still don't think my kick is kicking hard enough but I tried. I also started with just kick and played the chops to the kick which is opposite of what I usually do. If anyone know some good videos on how to make drums punch let me know. It would be greatly appreciated. Hope all are well.

Peace, Hugh
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I think MUMA taught me this 7 years ago lol.. and I just stuck with it..
of course I tweak the formula a lil' accordingly based on the sounds of the track.

aight..
eq: boost 88 hz.
dip 155 hz. that cleans it up and creates space for other sounds..
boost 450 hz.
I usually don't give it more than 2 db I think..
but I added a link to an advice on kicks website.. it says 6 db.
so the freqs aren't fixed.. but I use the ones I wrote as default and then move'em a little
to make it fit the 'key' sound of the track..
you always wanna tune your drums to the melody somewhat.
when necessary add some high freq if it need to cut through the other sounds there.
I really know f*ck all about compression.. info I take just doesn't stick..
so I do that by ear.. I have some default settings and and sometimes use compressors with presets which I tweak..
sidechaining I almost always apply to a degree.
again..I just play with the settings..
I usually use it mederately.. you can sidechain it to the whole track..and some more to the bassline if needed..( not drum related: sometimes I sidechain my vocals )
it can be fun to apply it strongly and push away al the other sounds for that sucking/push/pull effect.
like Lil' P said.. layering different sounding drums in general is a cool way to create thicker kicks..
you reach more frequencies.. you can shape the sound by volume, eq and using very different sounding drums..
say a short stubby punchy one which has a lotta highs, to cut through the mix..with la ow lo-fi one with crackle and a tail.. etc.
I think that's about all I have..
oh, wait.. maybe a lil' random but I thought the two Monophonic weeks were really interesting coz of the one sound at a time thing..
made every element very clear.

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Hey Joa, Great info. I hope to get my kick banging. I am terrible at making clean mixes cause there is a lot of shit going on. I think I need to simplify sometimes. i will continue to work on this. Thanks, Hugh
 
Bick Brannigan said:
Hey Joa, Great info. I hope to get my kick banging. I am terrible at making clean mixes cause there is a lot of shit going on. I think I need to simplify sometimes. i will continue to work on this. Thanks, Hugh
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ah, the eq-ing of sounds can really help clean up your mix..
removing unwanted freqs so they don't clash..
and giving different spaces/rooms.. by using reverb and and panning.. seperating all the soounds.

a sheet that can help below.

 
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