Annoying kick?

[Menthal]

Having a bit of trouble with the eq on the kick. The kick is slate nr10 and my current eq is kind of insane.
My biggest concern is that it might sound a bit "farty". I don't really mind the "plastic" sound though.

Here is a a clip:
http://www.netmusicians.org/files/84-test.mp3 (shredder10 Icarus Lives DI)

Some EQ suggestions would be cool.

 

[ApeScaleConflict]

It's just a little flappy. You might have some room bleed on your superior mixer too much. Simple way to test is to mute the kick and see if the frequency is still there. The fart concern comes from a really odd bass drive. Use headphones to track that out

 

[mmmb]

I can´t hear any low end in the kick, and the overall drum mix seems pretty messed up. I would try to make the snare, kick and cymbals sound like they are part of the same intrument, not completely disconected stuff. I like the guitar and bass tone!

 

[paladin shredder]

I'm overall not a huge fan of the slate kicks tbh. most of my favore kicks are from this site:

http://www.therecordingart.com/Samples/DrumSamples/Kicks/

for this kick you are using, I'd bring down the high end (8k-10k area) and turn up the overall volume a little bit.

 

[Menthal]

Might be a bit to much compression on the kick? It probably doesn't need any, and I might need to do a proper mix to evaluate the kick sound. Everything is always harder then I think.

I'm not a fan of the slate kicks either but decided I would try and eq them like a madman and maybe get a usable result.
It might not be worth the effort though, I'll better ask santa if he can give me SD Metal Foundry. Or maybe a drum replacer software.

 

[ApeScaleConflict]

Try sending kick and a snare to a track that has a limiter. Like stillwell audio event horizon. That does a really nice glue on em. If you use reaper, it's darn easy to route stuff.

 

[Menthal]

Try sending kick and a snare to a track that has a limiter. Like stillwell audio event horizon. That does a really nice glue on em. If you use reaper, it's darn easy to route stuff.

Cool, I'll check that out. I could use a good limiter.

 

[ApeScaleConflict]

Cant live without anymore!