How to make your kick stand out?

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To make your kick stand out approach your opponent planting your right foot in front of your left, spin counterclockwise while lifting your left leg and jumping off your right connecting your left heal to the opponents left side of his face. If done correctly you'll be the only kick standing.

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Farview said:
Nah, the bass is hitting C1 at 32.5Hz. Again, the harmonics are what you are listening to.
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I agree with Farview.

It's how you can hear the kick and bass out of the 3" $10 speakers in your car, or the little iPod earbuds.

In a live situation, for instance, I find that a narrow boost at around 150hz, instead of 60-80, gives the kick the puch.
 
I want to thank everyone for their help, I am using an audix d6 as a mic BTW. its just when heavy guitars come in the kick gets swallowed so im going to " make a hole for the kick " to sit in using eq's to kinda mold out a kick spot and see how that goes, thanks again for all your help. oh and we use the plastic beater side.

thanks
Derek
 
Send the kick through a limiter, that will set it out front.
 
Farview said:
Send the kick through a limiter, that will set it out front.
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here's a second on that

(loves me some compression/limiting)
 
I always compress kick, but thanks ... so i guess i 3rd that.
 
If you want to get a little unconventional with a "click" try messing with the attack of a gate and making the gate "click" on.

It WILL cut through, but you probably won't like it. :mad:
 
d(-_-)b-Phones said:
I tend to lose my kick when Heavy guitars come in, gets swallowed by the mix. Any cool tips of how to stop this from happening without flying the fader?

Thanks
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1. Mix everything less than 80hz away, narrow kick drum to 80Hz- 200Hz with eq... it gives more punch. Allthough if your making rock music kick drum cant be heard (my opinion) if you aint listening just for it.
2. try to mix with bass and kick drum together. If you got bass right, you can here kick just giving some more punch to bass...
3. Listen some of your records and try to listen the whole mix...And then the bass and then the kick...
3. These are just my thoughts...
 
d(-_-)b-Phones said:
I always compress kick, but thanks ... so i guess i 3rd that.
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I mean limit. Take an L2 plug and smack the crap out of it. Or use the peak stop in a DBX limiter.

At the very least, set a compressor at inf/1 attack about medium and release as fast as it can.
 
Because the kik was the most difficult part of my mix....

I spent hours and hours on it. I use a DM5 and yea no one is playing the drums. I wrote the drum parts. Its all midi. Not one drum was ever physically hit. I did EQ my entire drum set so the Kik would be more present. I had to increase the mid on the eq out of my mixer to do this. So, I found by listening to a few remastered CDs I own that the kik in some cases ends up being to loud and actually causes distortion out of my nice little JVC stereo. To me that is unexceptable but aparently to the ME it was. My kik in my mix blends just right. Yes there are moments where it isnt the prevalent sound going on and you could say it gets buried by guitar. But when you have Lead guitar going which should be the loudest at that point and you have at least 2 rythmn guitars panned (heavy Rock) The kik has a lot to compete with. Thats why unless you spend the time at testing your mix on multiple players ex: stereo, car stero , streaming, computer and the ultimate necessity I feal for the Home Recording musician is an iPod.

I have to tell you if it werent for the iPod I would have never been able to get my mixes. I was able to store all the waves every time I changed them and go to my iDocks and listen through a variety of speakers.

In heavy rock you dont want to blow peoples speakers. The kik and the Bass can be deadly to speakers.

Take my advise get an iPod and an iDock and run your mixes through different stereos and make sure the kik isnt too loud. It can be quite deceiving.

Ill never forget when Metallica - Master of Puppets came out on vinyl. The kik was WAY too loud and almost blew my speakers. I had to cut the bass down on my stereo significantly to listen to it. To me that was an ME who did not know what he was doing. Lars is so conceded that he probably loved it but didnt realize what the listener was going to have to do to enjoy the album. Oddly enough I dont own one Metallica CD so I guess they were never one of my favorite bands. Maybe it was that kik. You think?
 
Are you sure it was Master of puppets and not And justice for all? Puppets had kind of a midrangey kick (comparatively) and wasn't very low-endy at all. If that album was flubbing out your stereo, you had the bass turned way up.
 
Im talking about the Record not CD

If you never owned the record then you wouldnt know. The CD may have been "Remastered" correcting the excessive kick. Whatever EQ you want to say was applied to it. It was EXTREMELY LOUD. Thats the record album :)
 
I just pulled out the record to make sure. It was as I remember it. The CD from that era is thinner sounding than the record (as was almost always the case at the time). I borrowed a newer CD and compared. The newer one is smashed to death like everything else now.
 
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