Hey producers
I Seen a video on youtube and i seen that they put little reverb on kick drum....and make automation of kick...i never put reverb on kick...so plz tell me its good to put Reverb on Kick ?

 

I put "room reverb"/convolution reverb on some of my kicks, and very little of it (and highpassed). A little (a tad) spatialness will not hurt, as long as the low end is mono.

I learned from mistakes early on not to add long reverbs on kicks. Kicks and bassy reverbs don't get along to great, unless you design "breaks", "impacts", "stops" and other filmtrailer-esque sounds, etc.

 

For regular kicks, not cinematic impacts as Baxter mentionned, I sometimes use small room reverbs designed for drums (drum room preset, drum buss preset etc) and I use it very gently. Also as Baxter mentionned, you want it a bit highpassed, you don't want the very very low end in the reverb, it just sounds shit.
So overall I would say you can use reverb on kicks, just use small room settings, use it very gently and highpass it adequately

 

i've seen a sidechain plugin on the master bus. there are no rules. if it sounds good then it's good.

 

instead of reverb try to put a 6 to 9 ms delay with ton of feedback ,or use only the reflections of a reverb plug this bring a more noticeable "click"

 

I also hear comb-filtering is the new thing.

 

comb-filtering is not bad but it is really easy to abuse and mangle if not careful, you really need to use your ears well and be very familiar with your mix environment to really use any reverb or comb filtering well.

 

Sorry, I should have used the blinking smiley.

Btw, why is this thread under "Software > Mac/Hackintosh"?

 

As it important generally to emphasize the low end of the kick say by using an eq u generally don't want to use loads of reverb.

Essentially if you going to make sure it's used on a send & return that way you can even compress the send & eq the return to get rid of any problems with reflections & have more control in eliminating the unwanted parts.

 

If you want that reverbed kick sound I suggest a hall verb... and use big amounts, you can edit it after all.
This is how I picked it up somewhere:
Send the kickdrum to a reverb with a tail of about 2.5s. Then bounce that verb so you can edit it.
Use a sharp fade out. and cut out the boomy freqs around 200/300hz.

This will make your kick go techno in about a minute of work.

 

yeah.. dark/hard techno is chock-full of basslines MADE from sending a kick to reverb... so YES, sometimes the rules will be straight demolished... the rule of course being, "Either, DON"T apply reverb to a kick, OR, you MUST hi-pass the verb-send cuz of mud.

 

Yes. Reverb kicks. When nec.

Most people think reverb is that long, big tail in a big hall or chamber. Almost every room has reverb. Depending on the amount, it can add reality and dimension to your drums.