Post by Matthew Harrison on Mar 1, 2014 17:09:27 GMT -4
Just a thought for anyone layering kicks, when making EQ, make it to the appropriate layer, not the channel they're all routed to.
I'll give an example to help explain what I'm talking about.
Lets say I'm making a kick with three layers, a sub, mid rand, and high end. Usually in my kicks the sub is the longest layer, mid is the next, and high is the shortest, this makes for a quick punch with a nice sub fade out. I route all my kicks from 3 mixer tracks into 1 at the end so that I can adjust the volume & effects of all 3 kicks together.
Now if my kick was missing some top end, I could do a little boosting to help bring it out. If I were to boost on the final bus of all 3 kicks, that boost is going to try and pull up that frequency out of all the kicks. It likely won't get much from the sub kick because of the low pass I would have on it, but it might pull some from the mid range kick which could be undesirable because of the transient. The mid range kick fades out a little later than the high end kick & boosting the highs of the mid range kick may give the high end of the 3 kicks combined a feel of a little longer decay in the higher frequency's.
Hopefully that made some sort of sense.
I'll give an example to help explain what I'm talking about.
Lets say I'm making a kick with three layers, a sub, mid rand, and high end. Usually in my kicks the sub is the longest layer, mid is the next, and high is the shortest, this makes for a quick punch with a nice sub fade out. I route all my kicks from 3 mixer tracks into 1 at the end so that I can adjust the volume & effects of all 3 kicks together.
Now if my kick was missing some top end, I could do a little boosting to help bring it out. If I were to boost on the final bus of all 3 kicks, that boost is going to try and pull up that frequency out of all the kicks. It likely won't get much from the sub kick because of the low pass I would have on it, but it might pull some from the mid range kick which could be undesirable because of the transient. The mid range kick fades out a little later than the high end kick & boosting the highs of the mid range kick may give the high end of the 3 kicks combined a feel of a little longer decay in the higher frequency's.
Hopefully that made some sort of sense.