Making an 808 kick in Logic Pro from Sanjay Patel on Vimeo.

Sanjay here, from AskASoundGuy.com, showing you how to setup an 808 (Sine Wave) Kick using an Oscillator and Noise Gate with Sidechaining.

This is a cool, and easy way to add umph to your kick track/ get those sub-sonic LOWS for your club tracks.

Need more help? Something missing from the video? Send me an email at askasoundguy@gmail.com

Some Notes:

-You can use a anything that spits out a sine wave for your 808.  (it needs to be a plugin that lets you choose the frequency of the wave).  I used the “Test Oscillator” in Logic, but you could easily use a simple synth by using just one sine wave Oscillator and turning off most of the modulation/effects.

-Generally you’ll want to trigger the sine wave with JUST the original kick.  However, if you’ve got you’re whole drum beat on one track, like I do in the video, then being able to “filter” the sidechain becomes really important.  Filter out the high end stuff from the sidechain (don’t worry, eq on the sidechain isn’t audible in your mix)

-If you need help with Sidechaining, Ben’s done a video on Sidechaining in Reaper and an article on Sidechaining in Reason.

-There’s lots of extra/other things you can do with sidechains like parallel compression etc.  Hopefully we’ll be able to cover more topics soon.

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