KickMaster FX Chain for processing kick drum sounds

Figure 65. KickMaster FX Chain.

Included in the Anderton Collection of FX Chains, KickMaster provides extensive control over kick drum sounds.

While intended originally to process standard kicks into becoming EDM (Electronic Dance Music) monsters, over time KickMaster evolved to handle various types of kick drums and musical genres.

You can add distortion and thud, emphasize the beater or click sounds, add room ambience, and add a unique tightening effect. Use KickMaster for gentle processing of acoustic kicks to hardcore EDM sounds.

KickMaster is also useful for parallel processing with drums when you want to add some “trash” to the dry drum sound. The adventurous can also try it with bass guitar.

KickMaster contains the following controls:

Dist On/Off. Enables/disables the Distortion section (Distortion and Hardcore controls).

Distortion. Sets the overall amount of distortion and is the “master” distortion control.

Hardcore. Changes the distortion character. Turn it up slightly to add depth. Turn it up further to add artifacts.

Near/Far. Positions the kick drum more forward or further back in the mix.

Thud. Controls the kick drum depth.

100/250 Hz. Sets the Thud frequency.

Beater. Emphasizes the bass drum pedal beater hit.

Broad/Sharp. Sets the resonance for the Beater filter.

Click. Emphasizes the highest-frequency kick components.

Tighten. Enables broad midrange compression while leaving the highest and lowest frequencies alone.

Room. Adds ambience to the kick drum.

Room Size. Changes the character and depth of the ambience.

 

See:

Using FX Chain presets

Effects chains

FX Chain module

New features