5 Tips For Big Fat Kick Drums | Cubase Secrets with Dom

In this Cubase tutorial, Dom Sigalas shows you how to improve your music production with big punchy kick drums. Starting with an acoustic kick drum, Dom emulates a Pultec vintage compressor sound with a vintage analog EQ, compressor automation and an envelope shaper to get a focused, clean drum sound. Dom demonstrates using dynamic EQ for solo kick drums, the multiband envelope shaper and the auto gain function of the studio EQ - all tools in Cubase which will help you get a thick fat punchy sound for your kick drums quickly and easily as part of your music production workflow.
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[@TECHONTV]

Dom has upped my production game by 19x in like 3 weeks. This guy's is informative and infectious.

[@Heathcliff_hensel]

Agreed, im not even a Cubase user and yet i watch all his videos.

[@TheDerider]

The Domicron variant maybe? 😎

[@stevesutube]

Every day is a school day! Thanks Dom.

[@nexis1974]

EXCELLENT video! Thank you for showing us these tricks! Awesome!

[@mkerl]

Perfect!!! Thank you so much, exactly what I struggled with yesterday :)

[@GianlucaBoffoli]

Top tips! Really awesome… congrats Dom!

[@psycurity8766]

Always a source of inspiration, Dom!

[@reziahamed6654]

Lovely tips n tricks as always Dom.. Really goes along with the previous video of Low End Plugins hand in hand... Best of LUCK with the new STUDIO 😍😍 Cheers...!!

[@sidneythirston9044]

I love it when you need to know something and Dom's gotchu covered Thank You Dom🙌🙌🙌

[@robertsimpson5801]

Loved these tips!! Keep them coming!

[@yvesmorissette2946]

Very interesting Dom, I have tried those 5 tips, it's very cool Thank you !

[@mcentertain]

very well done & explained plus you got the ear! also you convinced me to do a mix in cubase for a try. Thanks & cheers!

[@ruudjansen2412]

great tips Dom, thanks!

[@KrishnenduHari]

Thank you so much. This was so helpful

[@Jp-jr7xi]

incredible tips thanks man u made my day

[@bandninkasimusic6484]

Another cracking video Dom 👍

[@rachidbendadande9750]

Hey Dom, Thank you for the tips

[@flumetron]

Another gem from Dom!

[@jasonanthonywebster8859]

You're looking very well, great in fact!

[@eljodioerrante]

Thanks. It's great.

[@Thebluesguy.k]

thanks a lot Dom!

[@micha_el0815]

Thank you so much! 😇🫶

[@lnkd70]

Plus, Dom wears awesome T-shirts 😎

[@phakt]

Great tips!

[@Demodome-live]

Amazing!!

[@JanEkbom]

First I let the kick channel in Heartbeat from Softube have the soft klick sound and then send that to the FX channel with the Pultec chain on. But it was Tip nr 4 that made my day. It sounded a bit fatter than the Pultec Kick effect. But your tutorials is amazing in every way.

[@mimidhof2179]

Hey great tips. You haven't talk about the moving to your new location... is it done yet?

[@andytullis8736]

Thank you! Always helpful! Also are those Adam monitors?

[@timweinheimer1]

Thanks Big Dom

[@johnstudioofficial3787]

Thank you brother

[@lloydbrownmusic]

Top drawer tutorial as per Dom...I was wondering if you might do a review of Eventide's Split EQ as part of your 'Plugin Spotlight' series. Its been gaining a lot of interest as being a dare I say it, a 'game-changer' in EQ processing. Would love to hear your thoughts - Cheers

[@carloscabrera2027]

Dom is Dom

[@milenski_]

Pure gold

[@BlueJavaTN]

Thanks Dom! Hope the studio building is going well. Shopping for some Black Friday deals and your name popped up on an East West Hollywood Backup Singers demo - "Take Me Away". Nice kick on that one plus the bass and horns are fantastic!

[@rogercabo5545]

How do you setup the 2nd monitor to the analyzer or perhaps the master sum displaying on a 2nd monitor only?

[@zofo264]

You had me at Atari.

[@whitefrank7675]

Yeah~~🔥🔥🔥

[@PubuduNiroshan]

wow wow wow

[@Arlicht]

I would just insert EQP-1A plugin for this.

[@missepicmandy]

You could also slice the drums loop and make a duplicate and boost only the kick shots

[@giannispan8129]

Hello! I have Steve slate 5.5 version in Cubase 12 pro. I would like to ask which plugins (eq, compressors) are used for a better sound effect in bass snare and in general in the whole drum set for recording with a backing track? Thanks!

[@kbnamedia2423]

HOW DO YOU MIX YOUR PERCUTION ?

[@DaniWhiteESP]

Hi Dom! I have an old computer with a screen resolution lower than FullHD, Can I reescale things to make it look smaller? Some menus are too big for that screen.

[@KrishnenduHari]

I have the same problem here But I think there is no option of rescaling the size depending on the screen dimension. I have checked the size by changing the resolution of the display of my pc but it didn't work like that.

[@kbnamedia2423]

HOW DO YOU MIX YOUR PERCTION IN CUBASE \

[@HowlingUlf]

Shut up and take my moonnnnnh ... wait a minuuuute! I have this in Cubase already? Woohoo! :D Tip #6 Use SpectralLayers to extract the drums in already mixed material and then you have a cleaner track to work on. Then add it back.

[@sameeramramanayake7137]

💙💪

[@INSTUDIO68]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@directed6924]

Having racks of analog gear and using stock plugins to enhance the sound. Looks very strange.

[@jolamediaproductions1601]

Super easy to create!!! 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@karadytube]

Why you slowed the video ???””

[@gregorwilliams9784]

he wants you to think of him when his sexy bobbed hair is rocking 😂

[@soundtoys795]

It sickens me that Steinberg would use this YT "influencer" instead of an actual audio professional to demonstrate their product. His kind preys on the uniformed as is nothing more than a salesman. Shame on Steinberg for not being able to tell the difference.

[@gregorwilliams9784]

Musliman s četničkom zastavom, haha