Music Production Tutorials — how to sound design drums

How to Make Kick Drums Kick drums are all about low frequencies. Kicks are punchy and boomy in your beats.To get punch in the kick, you want to create a pitch envelope with a short decay, this creates the punchy/clicky part of the kick drum.The body of the kick is usually a simple Sine Wave at a low frequency like 50-90Hz. Sine Waves are used because they are so smooth and rich in low end, whereas other waveforms create too much buzz and harmonic content which takes away from the star of the show, the bass. Kicks usually have a...