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Reverb on a kick?
« on: February 18, 2016, 02:55:32 am »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1DCB_eHxlo

Grum right now is one of my favourite producers. If you listen closely, you can tell theres a reverb on his kick. Does that seem odd to anyone else?
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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2016, 03:24:59 am »
Odd, possibly. Then again that may just be his style or something he found worked with the track he was trying to create.

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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2016, 04:08:52 am »
nope.

If want room ambiance you put up a room mic to get the sound of the drum kit in the room.

electronic music is really dry in some instances of the drum kit.

I love me some plate reverb on my drum elements. give it a nice flavor.
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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2016, 05:47:38 am »
I usually send all of my drums to a plate or a small room verb, but the kick, never. It has a cool effect for sure.
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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2016, 06:43:49 am »
I think the reverb is enabled just for the DJ intro/outro, when the kick is high-passed.  It's a nice way to fill up the intro/outro a little bit, but if enabled in the main parts of the track, it will just muddy up the mix.

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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2016, 06:52:51 am »
I think the reverb is enabled just for the DJ intro/outro, when the kick is high-passed.  It's a nice way to fill up the intro/outro a little bit, but if enabled in the main parts of the track, it will just muddy up the mix.

Yeah it's just automated in to add interest for the intro/outro. Sometimes I'll send the kick to my drum reverb at -36dB to -50dB so it sounds more natural.

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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2016, 12:54:07 pm »
You can also hear reverb on many of Deadmau5' kicks, although usually it's shorter. And I remember Steve Duda mentioning in a video that dubstep producers like to use reverb to make a punchy kick, in contrast to boosting the bass frequencies. I never thought about automating it, that's a cool idea.

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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2016, 02:49:41 pm »
grum is the bomb!

I often put reverb on my kick, I usually set up two reverbs on sends. a 'drum' reverb which just adds drum ambience to my drum sounds so its quite short, then I also have a wider one set up which is more for atmospheric stuff which I usually use for synths or pads. In the intros I like to use the atmospheric, wide reverb sent to the kick, makes for nice intros and creates space. The beauty is with the send you can apply an EQ after the reverb so the wide, atmospheric verb only affects a certain frequency range on the kick......(sending reverb to low frequencies is a good way to clutter your mix).

Also a touch of reverb on a kick isn't that unusual. once my track fully comes in I like to turn off the wide reverb to the kick but still apply a touch of my short 'drum' reverb to the mid/top of my kick. Why? because every sound you hear ever has some sort of reverb on it. Every wave of sound that comes into your ear has in some way reflected off something. So reverb is very natural to humans. Often kick sounds straight out of sample packs or synths are extremely Dry. Completely dry sounds are unnatural for humans to hear so I feel adding a touch of reverb, on a send, at specific frequency ranges on your kick can add a natural sound without muddying your mix. of course you have to find the balance and get it sitting in your mix right but don't be afraid to use reverb on the kick. its just how you use it that is important.


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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2016, 06:05:08 pm »
Since we're talking about buss techniques here, if you're on a limited space budget for inputs, i recommend bouncing that buss channel to audio.

This works because you have another layer that could be manipulated that's just pure effect.
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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2016, 09:50:06 am »
Makes sense. I almost always cut anything below 200hz ish on reverbs.
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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2016, 10:02:00 pm »
did a quick little video for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcK-YdBThRk&feature=youtu.be

Excuse the shitty laptop microphone. my actual microphone broke on me but the video might help you a little :)


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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2016, 01:17:28 am »
Reverb can be really dope on kicks, especially since it's kinda taboo in a sense. Breaking rules is fun, you just gotta be careful mixing because if you don't filter out the mud it could get messy depending on your settings. Ableton's built in reverb is nice because you can also adjust the width, too much width and it could fall apart in mono.

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Re: Reverb on a kick?
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2016, 09:11:59 pm »
Techno hall reverb kicks  ;)