Hey!
Today while I was at work, I started thinking about a way to make a kick drum tighter. After some thinking, I arrived at the conclusion that a lot of the tightness in a kick drum is determined by the length of the bass frequencies in the kick drum itself, or perhaps known as "sustain". So what I thought I needed to do to gain full freedom over the bass frequencies was to split kick signal into 2 tracks where one track would contain the bass ( 0-100 hz or so) and the second track would contain everything else, so that I could then mix the tracks back together once I was done processing the bass freqs.
So why do I need to split the signal? Well, I thought about using a transient designer like Dominion to simply pull the sustain down, and maybe increase a little attack while I'm at it.. whatever works. Maybe you could achieve a little of this effect with a multiband compressor but I always find a real transient designer to work much better and Dominion is pure love for drums. Since Dominion doesn't let you select what frequencies to process, I would have to make my own "crossover" so Dominion can process that part of the signal.
The question then is... how do make a proper crossover? I can't imagine it being as easy as just slapping a hi-pass on the bass track and a lo-pass at the "everything else" track and expect it to sound good. There surely must be a ton of things to take into account when doing this? Hence, why I'm asking... just want a way to control what goes into Dominion and not (and to make sure it still sounds good and correct/no phase issues when the signal is combined again)
Today while I was at work, I started thinking about a way to make a kick drum tighter. After some thinking, I arrived at the conclusion that a lot of the tightness in a kick drum is determined by the length of the bass frequencies in the kick drum itself, or perhaps known as "sustain". So what I thought I needed to do to gain full freedom over the bass frequencies was to split kick signal into 2 tracks where one track would contain the bass ( 0-100 hz or so) and the second track would contain everything else, so that I could then mix the tracks back together once I was done processing the bass freqs.
So why do I need to split the signal? Well, I thought about using a transient designer like Dominion to simply pull the sustain down, and maybe increase a little attack while I'm at it.. whatever works. Maybe you could achieve a little of this effect with a multiband compressor but I always find a real transient designer to work much better and Dominion is pure love for drums. Since Dominion doesn't let you select what frequencies to process, I would have to make my own "crossover" so Dominion can process that part of the signal.
The question then is... how do make a proper crossover? I can't imagine it being as easy as just slapping a hi-pass on the bass track and a lo-pass at the "everything else" track and expect it to sound good. There surely must be a ton of things to take into account when doing this? Hence, why I'm asking... just want a way to control what goes into Dominion and not (and to make sure it still sounds good and correct/no phase issues when the signal is combined again)
Make sure the multiband isn't 'working', except for the 'solo' part, and work on with dominion that way. 
