RyanTrapstar
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What are some good plugins to add to a kick and why?
P.S How would you compress a kick?
P.S How would you compress a kick?
You're better off finding some good quality kicks and leave them dry. I usually leave my kicks dry and they bump.
SonEQ is a great EQ for kicks and it's free. As far as compression, I've been using Decapitator lately and love it. It's about about carving it out nicely in the track to really make it bump.
Just the stock plugins really. I thought all compressors do the same
This is mostly true when you're working with samples that may have been processed already. But if you would have your own synthesized bass drum, chances are, to really make it bang you'd want to process it one way or the other.
What exactly do you think makes one EQ better for kicks than another? And where do you fit decapitator and compression in the same sentence? As far as I know, decapitator is a distortion plugin.. with that said I'm not referring to the fact that compressors are types of distortion units.
They do, more or less. Though unless you're really looking for a particular feature (some of them come packed with these for all sorts of tasks) the only real difference from one plugin to another is the character of its sound, particularly when used to extremes.