Rough 808 kicks for the Trap charts
1 Layer kicks
The most common technique for creating juicy, smashing trap kicks is to layer a kick and sub bass. The former usually stays on the same pitch while the latter can play melodies. For our workshop we use the DrumSynth of an MPC Live, alternatively we can use the free MPC Beats [1].
2 Bass layer
In the MPC we load the on the first free track and select as . We set to C, so that the right notes sound when playing chromatically. For the necessary belly, and are sufficient,. For a rougher sound we activate distortion.
