NOLLY'S KICK SAMPLE TUTORIAL - Getgood Drums

Adam "Nolly" Getgood shows his process for creating a kick drum sample track in this tutorial. He uses Logic Pro X, but you should be able to adapt the process to any DAW and stock plugins.
He touches on:
- Choosing which acoustic kick track to use as the basis for your sample track
- Pre-processing the acoustic track with SPL Transient Designer and Fabfilter Pro G
- Converting the acoustic track into a MIDI track that will trigger the kick drum sample
- Manually adjusting the timing and velocity of the MIDI notes
- Adding an instance of the Getgood Drums Matt Halpern signature library
- Checking for phase alignment and other issues
- Printing an audio track of the final kick drum samples which can then be blended in with the acoustic drums
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[@GetGoodDrums]

What's your best trick for laying samples??

[@spool29k97]

Cum

[@AscentToZenith]

Watching videos of people who are good at it lol, and learning from that

[@J.C.Russell_96]

GetGood Drums Ubiquitous “copy Nolly” comment.

[@Bcwilderness]

i run three ad2 ezd2 and perf drums n use elements from each, or just get matt camerons snare from superunknown and crush everything lol, the snare is king, love those kicks tho nolly

[@F0nkmaestro69]

If I could get a Nolly Getgood ASMR voiceover for literally anything that'd be greeeeat

[@F0nkmaestro69]

Nolly Getcalm

[@GetGoodDrums]

“Nolly here. Today i’ll be rubbing this washcloth on a u87 for 12 minutes.”

[@F0nkmaestro69]

Lmoa getting some clean tones here

[@maxx_thor-bandcovers]

Proper english

[@scottydogg278]

GetGood Drums no lie, I would watch that - probably would learn a bunch of stuff. Still visualize a really coked up caffeine addict when using compressors with a fast attack setting

[@EmbraceTheWorld1990]

Thanks for these videos Nolly. You're doing a great service to those of us out here who want to learn these techniques.

[@GetGoodDrums]

Thanks for watching!

[@christmas-telecaster]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. As i dont have a ”real drummer” i have to rely on digital drums and this guide was very helpful for me to improve my game as a amateur audio engineer. Keep up the great guides man!

[@coasterfreek219]

every production video you put up I learn from greatly! thanks guys

[@jacobsmith1877]

Great tutorial. I follow a similar process but instead of converting to midi I run through APTrigga 3 with my samples loaded up. Using the transient and gate is one thing that a lot of people miss in this process but I have never actually seen anyone else do it. I will convert to midi if I need to trigger more than one channel of samples as APTrigga is monophonic only

[@OliKember]

So interesting! Thanks for sharing. Love the colon shortcut.

[@thosesmallyesterdays]

Some really helpful techniques and approach here, thanks :)

[@Cluless02]

Outstanding! Well done vid!!

[@lucidsamples]

thanks a lot , very clear and informative video keep going!

[@xplanet2112]

You always learn something from Nolly.

[@AshishPisharodi]

Nolly for life

[@SubhajitPandit1]

Nolly ❤️❤️

[@thomaslenouen9641]

Top video thank you !

[@JoaoVitor-nq1bu]

Does anyone know what the Selection Based Processing and Drum Dubling tools are called on Reaper? Also, is it possible to move a MIDI note on Reaper like on 13:41? BTW, awesome video! Nolly rules!

[@thijnmoons1778]

in reaper, right click the media item and go to take, then click show take fx! if you want it to be baked in like in this example you will have to render the track i think. don't know the midi function, i use slate trigger so someone else will have to chime in

[@JoaoVitor-nq1bu]

@@thijnmoons1778 Thank you so much for the help, man, I really appreciate it!

[@BrandonofRedemption]

You can use the JS drum to trigger function. You will also need to view the threshold under “view” in the menu. There is a good video on KZbin about it if you search for it.

[@scottydogg278]

BManchego I must check this out - only ever knew of the dynamic split approach previously.. thanks mate

[@dylanburrett5010]

I would love to know how to do this with pro tools as well.

[@lowbass5]

Hello there , nice video! What shortcut are you using to move The midi note in place? Thanks!

[@adamnollygetgood5545]

I use the default ":" shortcut. It's very useful!

[@coosminus]

Well using Slate trigger or AD. But this technique is awesome 👏

[@kimseniorb]

Cosmo Cadar slate is very phase incoherent

[@kimseniorb]

Just as any automatic tool

[@coosminus]

Might be, but as Nolly showed you gotta check that manually anyway

[@mdhssounds]

Hey Nolly, I've tried the spl td with full attack no sustain into the gate but unfortunately the bleed from the other kit pieces also turn into blips before the gate so I tried the gate first and then the td processing and the blips are all accurate hits. So the signal chain order may vary depending on how bad the bleed is yeah?

[@manugentoodrums]

Nolly how about the snare?

[@tyc00n10]

What is the benefit to making the sampled track stereo vs mono in this use case?

[@dummy0000000]

I would be much better student if all teachers were like Nolly.

[@NickScottProducer]

are those sennheiser hd650s :D

[@AscentToZenith]

I remember you saying in videos you aren’t the biggest fan to use samples in mixes. Has that changed any?

[@lukebogartmix]

If you have enough control over the session, and good enough equipment, you should keep sample augmentation to a minimum, assuming your drummer can also play to the expectations. However, if you're getting tracks to mix, where things might not be what YOU want, then that's where sample replacement comes in.

[@AscentToZenith]

@@lukebogartmix I feel like that is just personal preference. Some people go for that super modern production sound in metal. I mean yeah you'd definitely want the best starting sound you could get either way though.

[@lukebogartmix]

@@AscentToZenith Yeah it is personal preference completely (though the approximate preference of Nolly to answer your initial question) To me, getting that super modern sound, is completely possible without samples, or heavy use of samples. Good tuning, decent microphones, and a hard-hitting, consistent drummer.

[@adamnollygetgood5545]

I suppose I've become less particular in that regard - depending on the client's desired results and the drum tracks/performances I'm mixing, I'm happy to use as much or as little sample as necessary, or none at all.

[@AscentToZenith]

@@adamnollygetgood5545 Thanks for the reply man. Well since you're here can I ask if you tracked the bass for P4? Or are you just producing the album?

[@DBlackRihno]

i dont hear you

[@ovonisamja8024]

Damn, in Cubase it takes forever to replace the drums because every other hit gets misplaced so you have to drag bunch of them around manually. Literally the worst part of the job for me.

[@Bigjunk9999]

Or you can use Slate Trigger and get it figured out in about 2 minutes

[@marc-andrebeaudet6040]

no matter if it's Slate trigger or drumagog, all of those create mis-triggers and some samples that are offset to the transient. You still need to manually go check that each one is on the transient after printing your track. Unless you're lazy and don't want to make it perfect like it should be. I like printing it to midi to be able to tweak velocities; then i run that through SSD