Hello! Just for some background information, I am trying to create a hardstyle kick. I was wondering if there was a way to make my kick drum track clip to achieve the sound, without clipping the master.
I think Headhunterz does this in this video to start off with Logic.
Making a new kick - YouTube
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Why would it have to clip? Usually these hardstyle/hardcore kicks are heavily compressed and distorted on the low end
I would not recomend clipping to be honest
Check out the Hardstyle Kick tut’s on YT man… theres loads
If you are using ableton, I’d say the saturator with all the wave shaping options is gonna be your best bet. Its not really a bitcrusher sound normally, I think.
There might be a bit of layering with HS kicks… so you might benefit from having a fkd up distorted version over a cleaner, bassier one.
I’ve got sonic charges Microtonic & there are some hardstyle kicks in there - which are all heavily distorted. The type of distortion in there is saturation - so I’d say running something through that (a saturator in Live, or a Distortion plug) is a good place to begin. The Microtonic kicks arent layered - they’re totally affected by the distortion - so I suppose it depends on what sound ya want.
I’ve seen people use Ohmforce Ohmicide to do the HS Kicks, which is a multiband distortion plug. The saturator in live can do something similar, letting you just affect the particular freqs you want, with distortion- so get experimenting, as you wouldnt have to possibly layer. A nice bit of compression after would make it huge.
Check out YT - You’ll be able to get all you need there. Its well covered
Thank you all for the help