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Subject: tr909 kick drum, you know you want it
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Original Message 1/5 08-May-99 @ 11:26 AM - tr909 kick drum, you know you want it
Message 2/5 08-May-99 @ 03:11 PM - RE: tr909 kick drum, you know you want it
I like the 909 to hang on more like an 808, but with the drum machine alone, it wont do it. I also prefer the 909 over the 808 for most of the dance because it pounds harder. So what I've done is to cut the attack off of a real blastin 909 kick (one with the tone up high and a short decay), and paste it to the trailing edge of an 808. It takes a bit to get them to blend but once they do you can continue with it like this...Try some heavy compression with slooow release. That will make it hang even longer. Or you can use an analog synth for the 808 part. That way you can make it decay sloowly for as long as you hold down the key, then drop fairly fast when you release it to get ready for the next kick. Now use this kick at the beginning of each measure and make some shorter versions for the rest of the measure. Most people put 808's under the 909 kicks but that can be unpredictable because they can go in and out of phase. When that happens the kicks will get softer and louder all by themselves.
Oh heres another one: You know the song Atom Bomb by Fluke. It's got a cool bass drum sound. What they did was to put a sliding sound at the end of each measure, right before the kick. It has the effect of swinging down before it hits and makes you anticipate it. You really have to hear it on a good system to understand what I mean but in any case...Playing with sounds that have slow attacks leading into other sounds can really make a groove pump naturally. More organic, I guess.
As for XoX reverbs, I've had most luck low pass filtering them with no resonance. A really wide sounding one is better too. Lexicons work well. There's so much stuff I've tried here I could go on forever but I hope this helps.
Message 3/5 08-May-99 @ 03:12 PM - RE: tr909 kick drum, you know you want it
Message 4/5 08-May-99 @ 03:28 PM - RE: tr909 kick drum, you know you want it
It's people like you who inspire me for new ideas and trax, and keep me from selling all my gear for that used Mercedes that I want.....hehhe
Message 5/5 09-May-99 @ 02:14 PM - RE: tr909 kick drum, you know you want it
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