Скачать или смотреть Behringer X32 Kick Drum + Oscillator, Post-Fader Gate

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE SAYING "YOU IDIOT, USE A DCA"

An example of fattening a bass drum sound by adding a triggered low frequency sine wave to the signal, using the built-in oscillator on the Behringer X32.

This is an elaboration on this video (   • Behringer X32 - how to fatten up Drumsound...  ), using a post-fader sidechain to trigger the tone. This allows you to treat the combination of mic'd drum plus oscillator as a single channel, for more intuitive mixing, while also giving you the ability to free up the low-numbered channels, which need to be readily accessible during a live show.

This could also be accomplished using a DCA to control the relative volumes of the mic and oscillator channels, but I prefer to use up a mix bus on a deeper layer, than a DCA (which also puts a conceptual 'instrument' on the wrong set of faders). I've also found it sounds more natural with the exponential gate than the straight up proportional fader method-- maybe there's a psychoacoustic explanation of why, but to me it needs another order of attenuation on top of what the DCA provides.


Summary of steps (watch video for full explanation): Place microphone on kick drum channel. Optionally add a high pass (low cut) filter and a gate to make the natural sound less offensive. Start the oscillator with low frequency sine wave, sending to a bus. Send kick drum to another bus set to post-fade (such as a subgroup). Use another channel with its source configured to be the bus receiving the sine wave. Add a gate to the sine wave channel with a key set to the other bus that is receiving the kick drum. Adjust the gate so it has a slope and opens gradually with the volume of the real kick drum's attack. Adjust the relative volumes of the real kick drum channel and the sine wave channel to taste. Simply treat it as a single instrument, mixing with the kick drum channel. Remember to start the oscillator (pressing 'generate') every time the board is powered up as its settings are not even saved as part of a scene.

Music for the silly end text by Washington DC-area band Turtle Recall.