It's pretty unusual but it contains everything I need and will stand out from the majority of kicks out there! As you can see, I've used quite a lot of attack - you need to be quite strong on the processing to bend these kinds of sounds to your will, at the same time as not using so many effects as to lose all the lovely detail that will make this textural kick sound unique! To finish, I've applied some further enveloping with a transient shaping plugin (I used NI's Transient Master but you can sub in your own plugin here) to give the hit some more bite. Finally, I've added a low pass filter from around 1.4kHz, lessening the impact of the sound of all that bright rain and focussing in more on the low end of the recording. I've boosted the bass around 80Hz, while high passing with a steep curve at about 55Hz to cut out any infrasonic bass - I've also used a high shelf to take down some of the upper mids/treble beyond 1.15kHz. Next, I want to apply some filtering and EQ to better shape the sound to my needs. To mimic the decay of a kick drum hit, I've applied a bit of a fade to the sample - also known as applying an amplitude envelope. Now I've cut out the section of the field recording I want to work with, I can start sculpting.
As you can hear, the recording contains the distant sound of a motor engine, injecting a fragment of rumbling bass goodness into the recording which is exactly what I need to start making my kick:
You'll have the chance to download the sounds used in my tutorial below, plus a few loop extras for good measure - let's sift through the sounds and get started!įirst up is to search for something I can turn into a kick, for which I'd say the main characteristic I want to listen out for is some nice bass depth! Having listened through the files in Eastern Scenes, the recording I've chosen for this purpose is the one above: 'Rain and Birds near Lake'. I want to end up with a set of short slices from these recordings, which roughly equate to the usual suspects present in a beat - kick, snare and hi hats. To begin, I need to choose some sounds to chop up - this means searching through the field recordings to find sounds with a few specific characteristics. It's called Eastern Scenes and you'd be forgiven for thinking it was only useful for post production and soundtrack work - however, today I'm going to try something a little different and show you how you can use this and any other set of field recordings to make a unique, textural drum beat.
Recently, we dropped a brand new collection of field recordings - that is, environmental sound recordings made outside the studio - recorded in a variety of places from sweltering river deltas to austere mountains out in Southeast Asia.
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