Fatter Kick Drum Trick 

One of the kindest, positive, most hard-working guys on RU-vid - not to mention your skills as a teacher 🤟. Just wanted you to know it's appreciated man - great tutorial as always 🙏🏻

Hey Joe. I wouldn't be recording music if I hadn't found your videos years ago. Every song I record or mix has part of you in it. Just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Joe, you're always so generous and with such a positive energy... god bless you and your family.

Great trick, when you need it. Also works with pink/white noise on Snare drum with or without gated verb.

Definitely! You have the gift of teaching and the gift of sharing

Thanks for the gift joe

this is ultra level cleverness I wish there was more people like joe in this place

Aaaaah, the old Mutt Lange snare trick, but on the kick. So simple and so effective.

I cant thank you enough for the things i learn from you , this is by far THE BEST RU-vid channel i've seen and i think you deserve millions of subscribers, god bless you Joe Gilder ❤️

That’s an awesome trick for people that don’t have a sub kick mic or don’t want to make one! Great stuff Joe.

So easy but amazing

Thank you!

Thank you Joe for the tip! God bless you and your family!

Great Tipp Joe txs

Quite amazing

Great tip Joe - thanks a million

Great video. I've heard of this technique before but never tried it. Another way to get some low end on an instrument is to use a pitch shifter and go an octave down and bleed some of that low end in. I recently had a snare from a kit recorded at a live show that was really thin. The octave was too low, but I found that bleeding in about 209% of a pitch shifted version one fourth down instead was just what it needed.

Damn, this is so much more effective than adding samples and in my taste it sounds even better than recording with a subkick too.

Thank yu Joe, I appreciate yur guidance 🙏

Thanks Joe.

Thanks Joe!

Fan fan fan fantastic...so good and easy.Thx a lot.

Wow Sir 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Yes, this is awsome !

Bugged out just yesterday I was thinking about this same scenario. Thanks brother 👊

Like your video on adding a bit of distortion to a bass (HSC November 25, 2020) to make it stand out, this is a great thing for me to know about. It really helps to learn about these things. It makes my mixes better. I agree with what everybody else is saying about you and your videos. You're so helpful and all of your videos are much appreciated.

Beautiful. Thanks

Mate, that is a BRILLIANT tip!! Thank you!

Thank you.... Simple and precise......

this is the kind of things that ableton makes so much easier, the drum buss in Live is great, but it´s good to actually knowing how to manipulate audio

But the kick is in a specific key right? how do you know if the tone generator is creating a sine wave in the key/scale of the kick? You would in fact have to know what exact frequency the note of the kick is. For example C1 is 32.70. F1 is 43.65 A1 is 55.00. Next you could automate the frequency-band on the plugin to make it "follow" the chords of the song - or the notes of the bass. 1 2 3 perfect and dynamic low-end.

new to your channel. im enjoying your videos. keep up the good work!

Wow.. This technique new for me. Worth to try

Nice short Trick 😊👍🏻

I have learned a LOT in the past year thanks to you and these amazing videos you put together. I still have soooo much to learn, but now I can say I can do something and it doesn't totally stink! I can tell that I don't like the sound of something and have a good idea of what's causing that problem. I also know that if I can make a mix sound good in my car, I'm on to something! I have 3 tests, cell speaker, ear buds, and car (with a crazy weird sound system). Thank you, Joe!

Brilliant!

Great stuff, thanks!

I'm legit gonna try this on my newest song now! Been messing around with a couple ways to do this and this is exactly what ive been needing! Thanks so much for all your tricks and tips. I absolutely love your approach to teaching and I'll be a forever subscriber to whatever you put out 😁 one thing I'd like to see though... Could you do a video on a punk rock song? I'd be more than happy to donate a song of mine for you to use if you'd like.

I’m not a fan of RU-vidrs advertising “tricks” when they are usually “techniques” but this is a pretty cool trick. ;) BTW Joe, you are an amazing communicator. Congrats for all your success.

thanks and let you know if it works for me

Nice trick, but it has a major flaw. (Calm down, it has a solution.) The low frequency of the sine wave is not triggered every kick drum hit. Because of that, I find that it can cancel out with the original kick drum frequency as sometimes they not align very well with each other. The "right" way to do it is with a frequency synthesizer. The effect is put in a duplicated or buss kick drum channel, the fundamental kick frequency is set within the effect and the plugin react with the original signal, creating a synthsized low end that aligns perfectly (once you put the right fundamental frequency) with the original kick drum. After that, a gate and low-pass EQ for tightness and you are done. I do it in Ableton with "Corpus" effect, but I'm shure there must be a third-party plugin that does the same. I hope you can try it out. Cheers.

Did the same until I got my hands on the Harrison Drumflow Plugin, which has an inbuilt Wave-Generator. The ToneGen/Gate Combo was too much hassle for my taste, as soon the level changed, you had to readjust etc...

Er, what am I doing wrong here. I followed the instructions but I’m getting the tone when noting is playing and it cuts when the kick drum hits. Somehow, I have it backwards 🤔

damn joe thats flippin phat thank you EDIT i tried this out on one of our songs in production sounds anazing over my mains but there is a weird sub harmonic "flutter" when listening to it thru studio cans kinda makes ya anxious

Sub destroyer would work perfect for this

making stuff vibrate in my room lol

Subscribing and turning on notifications 🔥🔥🔥

Does it make any sense to pick a frequency that's in the key of the song? Like, if the song is in the key of A, set your tone generator at 55 Hz.

Hi Joe thanks for what you do ... I it a way to get the sample of the kick your are using ? I would like that if possible

This is a studio one native no? What alternatives are out there that can do this?

Why my gate generator has no ATOM ?

I follow this video's instructions and I seem to get the opposite result. the tone I have on plays and when the kick drum hits it shuts off the sound and just hear the kick drum. any help would be greatly appreciated.

any alternative on Ableton ?

how did you create sc tgate on the first track?

Hi Joe, Thank you for the video. How can you apply this with Logic Pro X ? Greetings

I would love to save a track that I would normally use for a subkick. And since a subkick will only produce one note (depending on the speaker) this seems like an excellent alternative as you can literally pick the note !...has anybody compared this technique vs a subkick?

Thanks Joe. Is there a way to align the frequency to the root note of the song?

Yo bro!

Do not- I repeat-Do not use this on a phone. 😉