Hip Hop Kicks

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What are some ways any of you make a kick sound more hip hoppy...as in...a boomin' full sounding kick. Of course it starts with a great kick sound but what do any of you do as far as tweaking?
 
Reverb for 1,

and EQ...

The "oomph" of the kick is very low in Freq...

around 50-60hz.

Boosting here will "add" that oomph.....BUT BE WARNED....

..lol..

one of the most valuable lessons Ive learned here is to mix "Subtractivly".

This means that rather than boosting 6db. at 55hz......boost only by 1db...maybe 1.5, 2, but lower the frequencies around it...

rather the simply turining it up, pull back on what surrounds it....

This'll take practice to master, (I dont even know what the hell I talkin bout)

...Reverb as I mentioned if you can isolate just that Kick...

None if this is definite though...experiment and find your own process that you like, and try different things out, so in the future,

youll be like.."I remember...if I go like this"....

sorry Im drunk....I quit smoking yesterday....Day 2 baby....

hope this helps..
 
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