BY RCA MILES HIGH

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Tutorials
-How to “Fatten” Up Your Samples

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-So you got your beat going, but your snare or kick drum sounds too thin, or the sample/loop itself sounds thin. If you want your beats to sound as clear and full as in the industry, then you’ll need to fatten up your sounds.

-The Blood Overdrive mixer plugin is a good start. This will automatically beef up your sound by amplifying the gain, and eq’ing the frequencies that are too low within the sample. To use the Blood Overdrive, simply add it to a channel on your mixer, and assign the number to your sample’s FX slot. If you don’t know how to do this read the tutorial—Using the Mixer

-Although the overdrive will beef up your sample automatically, you can play with the PreAmp and PostGain if you want your sample to be louder. Changing the color will make your sample sound texturally different, while selecting x100 will multiply the effect one-hundred times. You might need to add the soft clipper to the same mixer bank if your sample begins to distort from peaking/clipping.

-Another sample boosting effect you can use is the Chorus. This will simulate an actual vocal Choir, which makes your sample sound thick with a slight delay. The default setting for the Fruity Chorus is perfect for chopped samples or instruments.

-If you don’t like the default setting, you can add more Depth, trigger the Delay longer/shorter, modify the Frequencies, and the surround sound Stereo location.

-To add more bass to a sample select the Bass Boost effect. You can change what low frequency you wish to amplify by turning the Freq knob. For example, really low bass would be 60Hz or less while mid-bass starts at 70Hz and up. Amount controls the amount of boost for the effect. Add the Soft-Clipper if you’re sample begins peaking/clipping.

-It’s important to balance out your bass boost since not everyone will be listening to your music in 7.1 surround sound. You can add  up to 8 boosts on a single FX bank, where you add a boost to both your low and mid frequencies. This will ensure that even a listener playing your music through low-grade speakers/headphones will still be able to hear your bass. If you only boost the low bass frequencies, then these listeners will hear no bass making your beat sound treble-some. Yes treble-some, as in all they’ll hear is treble. Another technique I suggest for boosting bass is—Filtering.