Show me your best non-sampled/replaced kick

[Jordon]

All natural kit. Absolutely no replacement/augmentation.

This whole EP was done with the idea that there would be no pitch correction, TCE, sample replacement/augmentation, or performance-altering editing.

http://thefiresofautumn.bandcamp.com/

Now those are some tight-ass vocal harmonies and doubling. You don't hear that much these days without having a shitload of Melodyne or AutoTune and a dose of Vocalign to boot! You can tell the vocals are very natural, which I love.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

All the drums are natural with zero samples/replacement (beta 52a and subkick). With the exception of the snare this was a cheap kit as well (pearl export).

 

[Daunt]

I think getting a good and consistent kick sound without samples is not that hard if the drummer is good. You just need to have a separate parallel compression bus for the kick. Make it very clicky by hipassing and boosting the highs.

Some examples of my work:

Torture Killer
http://soundcloud.com/torturekillerband

Herem & Totalselfhatred
http://www.myspace.com/drophammerstudios

 

[nezvers]

Daunt! Several month back I run on on announcement for Torture Killer EP and just melted from that awesomeness!
Sound is F-ING perfect!

 

[MystycalFanfare]

Here's an all-natural kit for heavy music - no samples of any kind. Usually I'll use homemade samples for kicks on heavy stuff, but for this project we wanted something more raw. It still had to be big and defined though.

It takes a great drummer to pull off heavy music without samples, but it can be done. A well-tuned kick drum and a well set-up kick pedal do wonders as well. This particular kick is a Shure Beta 91 and a Yamaha Subkick into a Vintech Dual 72.

Man, that's sounds great!

 

[Daunt]

Daunt! Several month back I run on on announcement for Torture Killer EP and just melted from that awesomeness!
Sound is F-ING perfect!

Thanks! Definately one of my faves. Full lenght next year

 

[Morgan C]

Not mine, but I know for sure this is an all-natural kick, recorded with an M88:

 

[Donovan S.]

Not mine, but I know for sure this is an all-natural kick, recorded with an M88:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGqFo5cAj1I

This and Soundtrack to your escape are all natural if I'm not mistaken. Also, isn't Soilwork's Stabbing the Drama all natural as well? Those are my top 3 favorite productions ever.

 

[aortizjr]

Some great sounding kicks! I am in the same boat of at least trying to go all natural.

My favs had a Yamaha Subkick. I have a Beta 52 and a an Audix D6. Hard to get sounds like that. May pick up a Beta 91A.

So what other things do you do?

Do you shoot for a good sounding kick in the room (muffled, etc.)? Or for a really clicky kick (ie. tight head, front head off, etc.)? Tuned low, tuned high?

How do you control bleed under heavy compression and EQing?

 

[Jordon]

My all-time favorite kick mic combo is the Senn E901 and E902. It's INSANELY easy to get the kick to sound great. Even a shit kit with old heads can be usable...and it sounds, to me, like a kick should sound. Not a fan of the Beta52 or D112, but I do like the D6 a lot, and the Yamaha Subkick (or any good home-made subkick) is pretty sweet. With the 901/902 combo, that's all I really need.