This is how I made oldschool bassdrums when I'm bored and I want to make a song for about an hour and delete it afterwards. I'll post a vid about how I make my more "professional" sounding bassdrums if this one does good.


Steps:
1. Distort a FPC2 Kick two times using Fruity Fast Dist, one distortion unit will have the pre-amp at max, and the other in the middle.
2. In the Channel Settings of the FPC2 Kick, increase the "Quick Fade In" Knob to 23%, then normalize the kick.
3. Insert a limiter into the mixer for the kick and set it to 80% on the mixer knob.
4. Insert a Fruity Parametric EQ2 into the mixer, remember that Oldschool Gabber Bassdrums need plenty of Mid, Bass, and PRS/Treble. The Mid is usually going to be a little more increased than the bass or treble.
5. (Optional) Adding a reverb can really change the way a Bassdrum sounds, for better or for worse. There is no specific way to set the reverb, but in this tutorial I used the Fruity Reverb 2. Turn the decay all the way down to 0.2 or 0.1, the size is usually good around 20-ish, but it depends on what kind of Bassdrum you're making. Also, don't make your reverb too loud, usually in most Bassdrums you can only faintly hear the actual reverb, it's mainly there to help strengthen/weaken/whatever to the Bassdrum.
6. Insert any saturation tool you have into the mixer, what I use is the free Softtube Saturation Knob that you can download below. What I did was turn the saturation effects to 0.8, then turn the saturation tool to 90% in the mixer.
7. (Optional) How I specifically like to make my Bassdrums, is I like to use the VOX option in the Effector tool. I turn the Effector to 5% in the mixer, and from there just play around with how you want it to sound. It varies with every Bassdrum, and if used right can make the Bassdrum substantially enhanced, at least to me.

Links:
Softtube Saturation Knob: [ Ссылка ]
The only oldschool Gabber tutorial I've found on youtube (It's really good!): [ Ссылка ]
My Soundcloud: [ Ссылка ]
My Facebook: [ Ссылка ]


All the VST's used are included with fl studio besides the saturation knob, which is linked above. Don't worry, its free. You can find the download near the bottom of the page.

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