Alternate Reality (Brennan Heart) REMAKE!!

[Bluemind]

Guys, professional zebra synth tutorials here since you need more knowledge on synths

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Thank me in the end, kids

I don't know if you're being ironic but:
-First of all, you shouldn't pitch your kick in the piano roll, I won't call this a professionnal way to pitch kicks because your tail character is getting changed every note (shorter in the high notes, longer in the lower notes), you should have used a pitch shifting with stretching option that keeps the original lenght of your tail, it will keep its original character, you can use Cool Edit Pro (newer version is Adobe Audition), the Cubase sampler (my favorite one) or Kontakt sampler (slightly affects the bass, but still high quality pitch shifting).
-Second, you're cutting the essential frequencies of your kick, which are under around 200 Hz. If the kick is done correctly, the bass frequencies should be greatly balanced, so they won't bother you while pitching. Most of the basses from kickdrums have 3 harmonics (for a kick on a G note, you have one at 49 Hz, another one at 98 Hz and a last one at around 142 Hz). The problem with your bass is that it only have one (the low bass), with that, your kick loses all its power, which is a bit bad because that's what your kick needs.
-Third, your kick needs some serious work, I'm not saying this to insult you but it's far from being finished and it sound a bit hollow. Try layering it and adding a slight amount of reverb to fill this up.
-And a last thing, your synth is a bit muddy and got a bit too much reverb, try to turn down its amount slightly together with your lead release. Also try reducing the highs amount a bit and putting a little peak at around 1000 Hz.
Some tips which are, I think, really useful, experiment this and you'll have something closer to a professionnal sound.

Here's how that could sound (yes, the kick is selfmade):


I'm an amateur who produces in my free time, I'm far from the level of a professionnal so I don't think you should claim your work like that and over-estimate it. We are here to learn and help each other, keep that in mind.

[Keletho]

Alright man lol I was excited that it sounded remotely close to the real thing so I called it "professional" but that was a long time ago. Thanks for the tips ill be sure to look into it!