Techno Kick Destroyer (Free Rack) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hi everyone, hope you doing well. Today,
2. 0:01we're going to take a kick that sounds
3. 0:03like this.
4. 0:05And with a simple rack and just a bit on
5. 0:07stock plugin, we can transform it into
6. 0:09something that sounds like this.
7. 0:12Or like this.
8. 0:15>> [music]
9. 0:16>> Or even like this.
10. 0:21>> [music]
11. 0:22>> And even like this.
12. 0:26Let's jump into Ableton. And the very
13. 0:27first thing you need to do is to have
14. 0:28audio track so you can do command T or
15. 0:30control T. And as input you need to
16. 0:32select your kick track and make sure put
17. 0:35post effects. So like this you can solo
18. 0:36it and just listen to it without having
19. 0:38the original kick and put monitor in. So
20. 0:41we're going to rebuild this from
21. 0:42scratch. So the first device we're going
22. 0:44to use is overdrive. The reason why I
23. 0:46like to use overdrive with kick is like
24. 0:48you have a pre-filter on overdrive. So
25. 0:50not only it drives your signal, but the
26. 0:52filter is not just like to remove some
27. 0:54unwanted frequency. Like really the way
28. 0:56you filter before the distortion really
29. 0:59add a special character and tone to your
30. 1:01distortion. And this works effectively
31. 1:04well with kick drum. I'm just going to
32. 1:06bring the tone to zero. This is just
33. 1:09like a post EQ. And you're going to hear
34. 1:11just with drive and how I'm going to
35. 1:13move the filter, how it's affecting.
36. 1:15>> [music]
37. 1:23[music]
38. 1:25>> So we're going to group this.
39. 1:29And Now I rename everything and recolor
40. 1:32like this I don't lose time. And we're
41. 1:33going to map the parameter we want.
42. 1:35Obviously the filter as it's going to
43. 1:37really give character to your drive.
44. 1:39We're going to need to map the drive.
45. 1:41And finally the dynamic which I find it
46. 1:44interesting to change
47. 1:48>> [music]
48. 1:50>> the tone as well. And we're going to
49. 1:52leave the dry weight at 61%. So you
50. 1:54might think that sometimes you're going
51. 1:55to lose too much low end of your kick,
52. 1:57but keep in mind that this can be just a
53. 2:00extra layer, so you can just always
54. 2:01bring back your original kick later on.
55. 2:04Now, we're going to add saturator and
56. 2:06we're going to use the sine wave forge.
57. 2:08This is very interesting type of
58. 2:10saturation because it's kind of folding
59. 2:12the big the peaks back into the waveform
60. 2:14and that's kind of create a kind of
61. 2:16weird metallic and aggressive sound.
62. 2:19>> [music]
63. 2:22>> Now, here again, we're going to activate
64. 2:24the color here because with the color
65. 2:26you have this color curve which is
66. 2:27basically an EQ where you can decide
67. 2:30>> [music]
68. 2:33>> that the low can be boosted
69. 2:37or removed and same with the high
70. 2:39you have
71. 2:41>> [music]
72. 2:43>> frequency with the
73. 2:45>> [music]
74. 2:46>> the width. And so here again is the same
75. 2:48idea that with the overdrive is to
76. 2:50change the tone of your sound before the
77. 2:52distortion. So like this it's really
78. 2:54color and give a certain character to
79. 2:57your overdrive. Now, we're going to map
80. 2:58the amount of low to be saturated, the
81. 3:01amount of high, the frequency.
82. 3:05Now, the Q we're going to leave it fixed
83. 3:06to 20 and then saturate
84. 3:08shun drive. And now you can already
85. 3:10start to play with
86. 3:14>> [music]
87. 3:22[music]
88. 3:30[music]
89. 3:40[music]
90. 3:45>> Now, usually with this kind of sound
91. 3:46it's great to add a bit of reverb. First
92. 3:48to make it a little bit less dry, but
93. 3:50can also sometimes like give a little
94. 3:52bit of that cavernous warehouse type of
95. 3:55reverb which is work well on kick. I
96. 3:57mean, at least techno kick. So, I have
97. 3:59this reverb here with 30% dry wet and
98. 4:03700 GK. So, it's not a too long.
99. 4:10You can crank up the decay if you want
100. 4:12more of this cavernous effect. By
101. 4:13default, I just leave it like down
102. 4:15because I really want to be just like
103. 4:17make the the the kick feel a little bit
104. 4:19less dry and kind of emphasis a little
105. 4:21bit the transient make the kick brief.
106. 4:24Yeah. Now, we're going to add one of my
107. 4:25favorite device which is basically the
108. 4:27drum bus. The reason why I usually like
109. 4:30the drum bus is just puts everything way
110. 4:32much more in your face and you can do
111. 4:34that mainly because of the compressor.
112. 4:38>> [music]
113. 4:41>> So, this going to be dependent of your
114. 4:43input signal as well. You could maybe
115. 4:45use the low drive
116. 4:48in certain case, but I haven't touched
117. 4:50this because then because if you rack
118. 4:52it, it will work just for a certain type
119. 4:53of kick and bring your kick in the
120. 4:55certain direction where I wanted the
121. 4:56rack to be still being able to be useful
122. 4:58different type of kick be a bit more
123. 5:00versatile. So, now we're going to move
124. 5:02the transient to the rack to be able to
125. 5:05map it because they're going to hear how
126. 5:07the transient actually work on the
127. 5:10sound.
128. 5:16>> [music]
129. 5:18>> So, it's not just about having more or
130. 5:20less transient. You can see how here it
131. 5:22kind of like almost gated a little bit
132. 5:24of reverb and make the sound a little
133. 5:26bit more clean and tight where
134. 5:30>> [music]
135. 5:33>> here it's kind of bring the little bit
136. 5:35more everything up, make it a bit more
137. 5:37aggressive, too. Now, finally, the last
138. 5:39things I add it's a corpus processor
139. 5:41created. It's like it's called air base
140. 5:43because it's based on the air base
141. 5:45plugin from Waves which is using a
142. 5:47resonator to basically generate a low
143. 5:50frequency. So, here it's basically 45
144. 5:53hertz which is like F sharp and it's
145. 5:55kind of just boosting the bass
146. 5:56basically. You're going to hear we're
147. 5:58going to map it
148. 5:59the air base here.
149. 6:01>> [music]
150. 6:03>> Great way to have bass. So, here what
151. 6:05I'm going to do is I'm going to click on
152. 6:06the map and I'm going to put the maximum
153. 6:08to 50% because it doesn't need to be
154. 6:10higher than that. Otherwise, that's just
155. 6:12too much. And now we got our rack. So,
156. 6:13one thing I have did is I removed the
157. 6:15transient from randomization and I
158. 6:17removed the air bass from randomization.
159. 6:19But now you can just like randomly
160. 6:21>> [music]
161. 6:29[music]
162. 6:31>> And so now we have that we can listen in
163. 6:33the context of a track.
164. 6:34>> [music]
165. 6:41[music]
166. 6:48[music]
167. 6:56[music]
168. 7:01>> Create new sound. Now, one thing you can
169. 7:03do obviously is add other effect. I
170. 7:05could have take the the rack further for
171. 7:07example and adding war which can be
172. 7:09really interesting. I have some kick
173. 7:11present that work pretty well with.
174. 7:14>> [music]
175. 7:20[music]
176. 7:24>> So, yeah. That's pretty much it. This
177. 7:25rack will be available for free to
178. 7:27everyone. Now, if you part of my Patreon
179. 7:29member, you will also get uh all the
180. 7:31preset I made. So, hope you like this
181. 7:33video. Thank you very much for watching
182. 7:35and see you next time. Bye-bye.