Bonjour,

J'ai trouvé une astuce -en anglais- sur le net rédigée par un grand nom de la Trance ici en Europe : Laurent Véronnez (voir ses multiples aliases sur http://www.discogs.com/artist/Airwave)

L'astuce, intitulée "good tip for making hard sounding bass drums" est celle-ci :


Question : The main question everyone asks is "where do you find your banging bass drums? which sample cd's?"

Explanation :

I use exactly the same sample material as you do. I just use it a little differently.

For a good sounding kick, try the following :

1) select a good sounding bass drum that has good power in the midtones. when selected, look at the waveform, take the highest point and put the beginning of your sample play there (it results in a 1khz clip you can't get with eq). when done, trim the kick, then remove the low freqs (let's say up to 500hz).
2) select another kick (808 style for example) with much low freqs, and remove the treble till 1khz.
3) put them in your arrange window and make a loop with them, both playing at the same time. Then put a delay on the lower kick, just 2 or 3 milliseconds.
4) merge them into one sample (kicks are always mono), if needed resample/rerecord the result.
5) First compress the new kick, with a 11ms attack, treshold -10/15db, and ratio 4 or 5:1, and NO release
6) eq it if needed (most of the time you won't have to)
7) you got a new bass drum, enjoy!!


J'ai beau relire l'astuce, je ne trouve pas quel programme il faut pour la mettre en pratique (par contre, je suis presque sûr à 100 % que la personne utilisait Reason pour ses compositions).


J'ai vu à propos de ce post parler de Wavelab et de Soundforge. Mais peut-on aussi la réaliser avec Reason ? Et si oui, comment ?

Merci pour ton avis éclairé sur la question
Centrino