When I listen to a piece, a deciding factor in determining if a track is truly great is the effort put in to produce the track. Simply pitching or slowing a pre-existing work, although may sound cool, can really be done by anyone. It is hard to draw the line, but the way I see it, if you bought a T shirt and decided to stretch or shrink it to a different size, and told me you produced it, I would laugh at you. 

the context was altered, and you wouldn't of gotten the result unless the shrinking process occurred. or it was designed in that particular way.


effort seems to fall short, especially when you can't really know what has been done in the process. all you're seeing is the result rather than what might of gone into having to generate the result.

Truth be told, it's a pretty big deal to have control over audio in the way we do now. Technology has given us that ease, so we're all cheating by that respect.

But that ease allows us to express ourselves very differently than what was once available.

separating your kick into components of sound so that you can dial in the range of frequencies associated with the layers with effects.

Looking into recording drums is also a good avenue to gain a different perspective when designing drums.

if you consider the drum sound as components, you're basically mixing a kick drum to (think of a song, to be mixed, as the kick drum for this example)

You also might need to reevaluate the tool and the approach to the tool's use in context.

http://blog.dubspot.com/mixing-with-transient-shapers/

To sharpen your understanding

Also you need to view your kick drum in the context of the mix just as much as honing in on the sound.

Ott to shape your kick maybe? otherwise EQ and sidechaining lol... I like to use the glue compressor on my kick and snare if you're on ableton it gives a really nice punchiness/loudness without losing too much dynamics

This is some relatively decent advice. The glue compressor on kick and snare adds a different flavor to the sound, but i think it can be left out due to the fact that you're inquiry is about sample creation.

however if the glue compressor is utilized on the drum and snare, individually, your sample could benefit.



some advice for sample creation. You generally want the sound to be set in stone when you use it in a mix. analyzing one shots of the desired  genre context is important if you wish to make your own samples. It'll also give you a good reference point later on down the road, so you can intuitively get the sound you want when you hear it instantly, rather than paying for new shit every time you wanna check something out or w/e.

When ever you do this method, i suggest mixing around the kick and snare. Other genre appropriate considerations apply.

Hello and welcome to the forum.

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Visiting this topic will give you some insight on the forum as a new member.

Enjoy your stay!

proper EQ with respect to bias associated to the proper frequencies you want.

You will have loss of kick if you bias the sub bass. You will have loss of sub bass if you bias the kick.

with either bias, you can help the frequency content by side chaining.

Tohru from kobayashi dragon maid?

Good luck in your journey.

This is a well constructed track.