The vocals or guitars might mask the click of your kick. So there are a lot of potential instruments in your mix that might mask part of your kick.
In other words, a kick drum can potentially have important content in almost the entire frequency spectrum. Not to mention, if it’s distorted, it might have some “gritty” harmonics a little above each of these regions. And it might even have some “air” above 5k.It probably has “click” or “attack” in the 3 – 5k range.It might have some “knock” in the 600 – 900 Hz range.It probably has body around 80 – 150 Hz.It probably has sub-bass in the 20 – 60 Hz region.
A kick drum is an example of a sound you definitely want to cut through the mix, rather than blending in with everything else-especially in EDM or hip hop (or current pop music, which is strongly influenced by EDM and hip hop).Ī kick drum takes up a lot of space in the frequency spectrum.
Sometimes you want sounds to blend and run together, but often you want separate things to sound separate. The term for that is “masking”-sounds covering each other up. As I discussed in an earlier article, if two instruments occupy the same space at the same time, you won’t be able to hear them both. What do you do? Why isn’t your kick cutting through if it sounds great on its own? You don’t have any more headroom to turn up the kick-if you do, you’ll either have to limit your mix so much that it sounds awful, or you’ll have to deal with the rest of your mix being really quiet. Let’s say your kick drum sounds great on its own, but it isn’t cutting through the mix quite enough. But what is sidechain compression, how does it work, and how can you use it in your mixes? It Goes Back To Arrangement You may have heard about sidechain compression as a tool used to get your kick drums pumping through the mix, especially in EDM. How To Use Sidechain Compression To Make Kicks Cut Through The Mix
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