Why Most Kicks Don't Work 

This why I don’t watch too many of these. But usually get confirmation of what I’ve been doing.

Fully agree !

This just me but if you just turn the knobs and experiment you’ll figure this stuff out lot faster than endless hours o. Yt

In 00 we had no vids only manuals and I wasn’t reading all that shit

Most youtubers who make music production content are trying to sell you a product of some sort, so that makes sense. Like he explains in the video, people want you to buy beats and sample packs and presets that sound good already, which motivates people to conceal their knowledge to encourage people to purchase their products instead, and when those samples are bad, they go searching for more packs and so on. I've just been learning how to make the samples myself at this point because I hate the malicious music production industry. There's always a promo code, or a brand deal, or a sample pack, or a course, or whatever being marketed in almost every production video. It's so frustrating, and I feel bad for people who don't break out of that cycle of just buying more beats and sample packs hoping to eventually find the perfect thing, instead of learning how to DIY it. At best, you're going to make generic sounding music anyway. What pisses me off the most is when I see the "Secret formula to ____" videos, and it's usually just a sample pack sales pitch, and like... if you know the "secret formula" then why are you on RU-vid selling packs instead of climbing the charts? It's just so obvious to me at this point.

Get a track that has a kick you love, put your kick on top and flick between the two until to understand the anatomy of the kick you love. Then you can further apply processing to get it to sound just as good

Thank you for spitting some actual facts. Thats why the "cut itself" funktion in fl studio is so essential. Which even has a click compensation for not just putting those sounds back to back. But also i work on length belly and sustain always from pretty quite of the beginning i started producing. I came across so many people who might have some good feel for melodies or so but never understood how sound waves actually work. To all those guys: please dont just make music. LEARN how to make music. There is so much theory to it. And get a decent pair of headphones which give you abilities tonlisten very closely. One other hint to that is up to like 80-90 hertz waves should be felt not but not heard ;)

I think that could very easily be right though. That's what a lot of successful producers do - they have a handful of kicks, from sample packs that they use, with little or no further processing.

couldn't agree more - it's almost trendy to say "big boomy kicks suck"...

Its the tempo and rhythm that determine it for me. In other words, how soon is the next kick? Is the song 60bpm or 180bpm? Is it 1/4 notes or does it have 16th notes. Oh, and some songs are meant to be a bit of an overload noisy low end, perhaps not featuring a lot of bass (some have no bass!) where kick needs to fill in.

ok sample bot, or chatgpt.

I've definitely noticed it before but never "thought" about it until now. I thought it was a F'd up club system sometimes, or the DJ.

What double kick thing?

@@henriquematias1986 he briefly mentions it at 4:17

yeah I agree, once I find a dope kick that works well for one genre, I usually use the same one for that genre over and over, maybe editing it a bit to make it have a bit of unique flavor for the track in question

Yeah. Now that’s why drummers have a pillow in the kick drum. Makes sense now! 👍

Like the clicky death metal kick😋 can't have a lot of slow moving waves when you're plowing through 32nd notes lol

Hahaha exactly

Harder kicks with more bass frequency depending on the specific kick sound it's better? Nobody said that Soft kicks are worst. If you have 1000W+ boosted subwoofer even soft kicks hit hard 😊

​@@adrianmiszczuk8061how does that translate to a phone, a small speaker, or flat response headphones?? Probably underwhelming huh?

Yeah but also they are faster bpm so there is even less space in between each kick. So yeah the kick will be filling out until the next kick but the kick would still have to be really short in general because the music is really fast

yes there's something called a rumble kick, which is a techno kick with a longer tail. if you don't have a lot of harmonic movement a long kick can work as it takes the function of both kick and subbass

that makes sense to me now but it wouldn't have made any sense at all to me 15 minutes ago before I watched this video