Electronic Music Producer's Guide: Kick Drums

Larry Holcombe presents video tutorials for the Electronic Music Producer's Guide series, focusing on Kick Drums! This series will get you going and then some when creating and tweaking kick drums for your electronic music productions.

Videos

• Synthesizing Kick Drums Pt. 1 (12:45) - In this video, we create a kick drum from scratch using Kick 2 for a Future Pop/Bass track. We tweak our pitch and amplitude envelopes while fine-tuning click samples to get just the right vibe for our kick.

• Synthesizing Kick Drums Pt. 2 (11:57) - We carry on this Future Pop kick creation process by adding distortion and drive to help gel our sounds together. We also apply EQ and compression to finish the kick off.

• Layering Kick Samples (14:18) - In this video, we take 3 kick samples and tune them, tweak their envelopes, and apply channel and bus processing to make a new house kick drum sound.

• Recreating Kick Drums (11:45) - Now see you how you can use Kick 2 and an oscilloscope to recreate and understand your favorite kick drums! An amazing process for creating your own kicks and understanding how kick drums can be generated.