Get A Booming Kick Drum In Ableton Live 8

Ever wonder how audio producers can get a kick drum to sound so thick? Not rattle your license plate thick, not wake your neighbors up at 3 am thick - I'm talking about knock you over on the dance floor, steal your breath, and slap you in the face thick. Well, one way to do it, aside from equalizer mapping, is by embellishing your kick with a sine wave, and I'm going to show you how to do it.

Without Pics:

#1 - Open Ableton
#2 - Open 2 midi tracks. Name one 'Drum Rack' - And drop a drum rack onto this track.
#3 - Drop an Instrument Rack on the second midi track, rename Instrument Rack to 'Kick'
#4 - Drop a kick drum sample into the 'Kick' rack
#5 - Click and drag the 'Kick' instrument rack onto the 'Drum Rack' midi track, and place into the instrument rack there - so you now have an instrument rack inside of a drum rack.
#6 - Drop an Analog synth into the second midi track.
#7 - You want to set the Oscillator 1 to Sine Wave, dropped 2 octaves, and de-tuned about 6 or 7 steps. (If the kick sample you are using is already embellished with a sine wave be sure to tune correctly to avoid key clash, or use a different sample entirely.)
#8 - Select Amp 1, and here you can adjust the Decay of the sine wave.
#9 - Now that you have setup your sine wave osc, you want to put it in the 'Drum Rack'. So drag and drop it into the 'Drum Rack' like you did with the 'Kick'.
#10 - Now when you create a MIDI clip with the Drum Rack, just be sure to drop in a Analog note whenever you want the kick embellished!

With Pictures (They are large so that you can see what I'm talking about, native screen 1600x1050)

#1 - Open Ableton

#2 - Open 2 midi tracks. Name one 'Drum Rack' - And drop a drum rack onto this track.

#3 - Drop an Instrument Rack on the second midi track, rename Instrument Rack to 'Kick'

#4 - Drop a kick drum sample into the 'Kick' rack

#5 - Click and drag the 'Kick' instrument rack onto the 'Drum Rack' midi track, and place into the instrument rack there - so you now have an instrument rack inside of a drum rack.

#6 - Drop an Analog synth into the second midi track.

#7 - You want to set the Oscillator 1 to Sine Wave, dropped 2 octaves, and de-tuned about 6 or 7 steps. (If the kick sample you are using is already embellished with a sine wave be sure to tune correctly to avoid key clash, or use a different sample entirely.)

#8 - Select Amp 1, and here you can adjust the Decay of the sine wave.

#9 - Now that you have setup your sine wave osc, you want to put it in the 'Drum Rack'. So drag and drop it into the 'Drum Rack' like you did with the 'Kick'.

#10 - Now when you create a MIDI clip with the Drum Rack, just be sure to drop in a Analog note whenever you want the kick embellished!