Practical Processing for Killer Bass Drum Tones

Make your recorded kick drum sound AMAZING! It's simpler than you think! Raw bass drum tracks (nicely tuned drum through good mics with no processing) can be pretty underwhelming to listen to. Let's process those tracks to make them overwhelm!!

This video is a companion to my bass drum tuning video ('Tune with Mics In Mind") on my drum channel, DrumDotPizza, which can be viewed by clicking here:    • Tuning Your Bass Drum With Microphone...  

0:00 Introduction
1:26 Microphones and placement
4:22 Comments on the tuning of the drum
5:29 Comments on my bass drum processing
6:08 "Polarity" or "phase" (and my thoughts on it)
8:10 Raw tracks
9:34 Detour -- My poorly devised/misunderstood bass drum tuning video (2015)
11:22 Processing raw tracks for 'blooming' tone
14:31 Another approach for 'blooming' tone
16:05 Trick for isolating leakage from bass drum mics (and why to do so)
18:22 Achieving a "tight" character from a loose/unmuffled kick
26:55 Conclusion, RecordingDotPizza rebrand, and thanks!