In this lesson you’ll learn how to make a hardstyle kick sample in FL Studio suitable for layering. This will be a clean hardstyle kick tail sample, which you’d need multiple to be able to make a hardstyle kick layering.
“Layering ready” hardstyle kick sample
As shown in the previous lesson How to Make a Hardstyle Kick Layering with Samples, different clean hardstyle kick tail samples were created and then used for a kick layering. It’s a very important lesson and part of the essential basics. That’s why I encourage you to check it out.
But for this lesson, let’s take a look at how to make a “layering-ready” hardstyle kick sample.
Hardstyle kick tail samples
The kick samples used in the previous lessons were made a long while back. Back in the day I used a chaotic Patcher template (Patcher is an FL Studio plugin), but this is totally unnecessary and way too complicated. So, I decided to redesign one of the tails to keep it simple. The result is very similar and just as useful.
How to make a hardstyle kick sample
There’s no straight answer to this question, but there are a few guidelines:
- Use an a-symmetric distortion plugin and clip the signal.
- Use an equalizer to boost the mid frequencies and play with removing some low frequencies. Don’t forget to add some high frequencies as well.
- Optionally, use some reverb.
- Repeat this process a couple of times. But be more aggressive in the beginning and more gentle to the end.
These type of tails already sound very hardstyle -ish, but their purpose is for a hardstyle kick layering. Just check the previous lesson and everything becomes clear.
Plugins
For the individual tail samples, the following plugins were used:
- EKS-9
- FabFilter Pro Q
- Fruity Waveshaper
- iZotope Trash
- Fruity Love Philter
- Fruity Reeverb 2
- Fruity Fast Dist
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