How to Make Your Own DIY Sub Kick

This DIY sub kick method is much more common than you think 🌿 many professional recording artists use a reverse wired amp to get their sub frequencies from their kick, and here is how you can do it yourself!
Drums were mixed by none other than Jackson Maddox
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00:32 How it works
1:50 What you need
3:59 The Process
8:17 Placement
9:31 Demo
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[@jhardy0786]

I just soldered two clips onto the cable so I could just plug it on to the speaker so when I want to use the amp again I just pulled off the xlr cable and hooked the amp back up you don’t have to solder anything else

[@CalanReichel]

Looks like Cal Kestis got into music instead of the jedi business. 😆

[@therealcalebrz]

Wow…that’s actually uncanny haha

[@LuizPiresGuitar]

damn i knew i recognized him

[@highestsettings]

OR, you could just sidechain your kick to trigger an LFO at a frequency of your choice, then use a leveller to bring up the volume.

[@GardenGrooveRecordingSpace]

For sure! That's what I was doing before we made this video 🙌🏻 Ill also attach a sample to my kicks sometimes to get that sub frequency. But what you're saying is great especially if you wanna get that nice looong sub coming from kick 🔥

[@kelvinfunkner]

wouldn't it have been much easier to just use the same type of crimp spade terminal connectors that the original combo had from the amp to the speaker? no soldering at all, and if it's a working amp, you could literally just have the pigtails ready to connect and disconnect whenever you wanted.

[@mattuskamusic]

I wonder if it would work to use an extension speaker cabinet? It already has the 1/4” plug in the back. Could use a 1/4” to XLR cord. Unfortunately I don’t have a kick drum to try this out on. I suppose I could put it in front of my sub monitor and play a kick on the VST. Haha.

[@needsLITHIUM]

I thought the same thing, but using a DI box as an adapter in between.

[@johndescy7904]

Yeah, you can just use speaker cabinet with a DI-Box.

[@DoomDaniels]

U said uve got the red cable on the right which is the negative and a black cable on the right which is the positive??

[@gatherstudio5219]

I made my own subkick with the waves submarine plugin it can be purchased for about 30 $

[@GardenGrooveRecordingSpace]

Oh sweet! Im gonna have to check that out!