I've always been impressed with Madeon's drums, specifically his kick sounds. Whenever I process my own kicks, I pretty regularly use some of his own samples I have as a reference. There are a couple different things about his samples that I've noticed but have never been able to reproduce, and so I'm wondering if anyone else has any thoughts as to how I can achieve a similar result.

The first thing is his transients. Compared to other kick samples, his transients are ridiculously fast and snappy, so much so that the sub frequencies of the kick hit almost simultaneously to the top end. Here's a screenshot as an example:


I'm assuming a transient shaper is what's causing the 'snappiness', but whenever I use one (I'm using NI's shaper) on my own samples it ends up changing the tonality of the kick drum in a really undesirable way.

The other thing is the frequency response of the sample. What's different from a lot of kicks I use, is his aren't peaking at any one frequency nearly as much as mine do. Example:


With frequency response, my question is how can I reduce peaks in the low end in the most transparent way possible?

I'm looking for sample packs where the majority of the kicks peak very very low around 47-50hz. Most of the samples I have peak much higher which sucks, because low kicks sound insane. If you know any really good packs let me know, and also, if you have any good methods for tuning kicks lower without losing quality in the audio, that would be incredibly helpful.

Hey guys! I wanted to get some advice and start a topic on how you all organize and manage your files, sample libraries, and project files. I've gone through several iterations of organizational structure, but recently, my latest attempt has gotten really messy and I want to try and simplify it.

Explaining or posting pictures of the way I have my computer set up would be more confusing than anything so I'd love to see if anyone else has got a system they're really happy with.

mix advice would be amazing since that's probably my main struggle right now!!

I'm starting to learn that if you want denser songs to be loud, it needs to be mixed for it not overly compressed and limited during mastering. How do you go about making a dense mix loud? Is it compressing every signal or are the levels of everything more important?

Just had a spontaneous idea of making a kind of cloud library of samples and sounds producers make on the forum that they want to share with the community. It'd be a great way to learn from each other and get free sounds 

Just recently learned about parallel compression as a mixing technique. I was watching a video with Steve Duda saying he likes to  mix in a very heavily compressed version of the mix with a non-compressed version. Out of curiosity wouldn't mixing in the compressed signal produce lots of phase problems from the two mixes sounding the same? Or is that not an issue at all?