how do you bass boom?

[aldo2624]

how do you make your bass boom really loud live?

You can't really notice it when you listen to a recording but live it is AMAZING...

if you don't know what bass boom is (i dont know what the correct term for this is..i cant find anything on it)

minute 1:10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8CU_thTx3o


does anyone know how you can actually do this while playing?

[phoenixinflames]

i'm pretty sure the drummer is just hitting an electric drum pad right there.

[Sal]

Yea. 808's.

A Day To Remember does it constantly throughout their set.

[Tristan Needler]

Like a bass drop/sub drop? Yeah, those are triggers.

I remember Boxcar Racer did it live a couple of times and it annoyed the shit out of me haha.

[patrickhowell]

Yeah, it's the drummer with electric drum samples through the venue's subwoofers.

[JJJ]

it's called an 808 buddy.

[xmicxcorex]

another decent way to do it that some friends of mine (We Came From Embers) have employed and we are now preparing to experiment with is to take a lower tom, purchase a trigger and nice module (ultimately spending around $400 or more NEW) and set it on bass drop, 808, or anything of the sort with the trigger on the tom. Our drummer, i believe will be putting his tom on his left side (right handed drummer) because hell be primarily using the effect at the beginning of a few of our breakdowns....he said it makes it easier to move to the china and get that hit plus his snare hit in all on time.

[alex.parent]

another decent way to do it that some friends of mine (We Came From Embers) have employed and we are now preparing to experiment with is to take a lower tom, purchase a trigger and nice module (ultimately spending around $400 or more NEW) and set it on bass drop, 808, or anything of the sort with the trigger on the tom. Our drummer, i believe will be putting his tom on his left side (right handed drummer) because hell be primarily using the effect at the beginning of a few of our breakdowns....he said it makes it easier to move to the china and get that hit plus his snare hit in all on time.

Why not just get a small electric drum pad for this purpose? Wouldn't it be cheaper?

Also, be careful with how you go about using triggers. One band I did sound for at a show had his kick triggered, and his 808 was in the same module. Because of this, all that sound was going in to 1 channel. Everyone kept asking why the bass drops sounded like garbage. Make sure if you have more than 1 trigger, you can plug it in to more than 1 channel.

[Javs]

PLEASE DO NOT USE ONE
they're so fucking over used


but anyways, like previously mentioned, its an 808.
Some roland synths have them as a setting.
You can get electronic drum pads.
Or you can be really ghetto and just pirate an 808 pack on a music software program like FL studio and hook you laptop up to the system at a show. Then just press a key and BOOM

But everyone with a decent taste in music will hate you for it.

[verity38]

PLEASE DO NOT USE ONE
they're so fucking over used

But everyone with a decent taste in music will hate you for it.

Why, if its used in the right situation I think its totally acceptable, it gives a song more feeling. Your point is completely invalid.

[ACA]

Anyone have a good .wav file of an 808's bass drop?

[ClydeMcAllister]

Yea. 808's.

A Day To Remember does it constantly throughout their set.

That got pretty annoying when I saw them the other night. They do it a lot, but not nearly as much as the Devil Wears Prada does it though.


But yeah, for bands with keyboard players (and lazy ass drummers) I'd think it'd be pretty easy for the keyboardist to do it with some sort of sampling pad.

[ETGsynth]

Believe it or not, i actually made my own in audadity and trigger them using a sampler.

[nickstetina]

Roland SPDS pad. You can program all kinds of .wav files to it and assign samples to different pads and patches. Good stuff.