Music Production Tutorials — sound design

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I saw you guys really liked the Chroma Console Guitar Pedal, so I made an FL Studio version. It's not a 1-to-1 copy or match, it's my take on what the pedal would sound like in FL Studio. I own the Microcosm guitar pedal from Hologram and it's game-changing. They drop game-changing projects! And the Chroma Console fits that mold!  Chroma Console is a multi-effect guitar pedal stuffed with genius sound design capabilities. Effects include: Drive Sweeten Fuzz Howl Swell Doubler Vibrato Phaser Tremolo Pitch Cascade  Reels Space  Collage Reverse Filter Squash Cassette Broken Interference Needless to say, it required...

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...