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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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# **Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or TheBuddha. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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[–] • 2 pts

Thanks Reems, Glad to see you around man! The drums gave me some interesting obstacles as the kick had a lot of hihat bleed that sounded terrible when trying to get the click of the beater to stand out. I ended up figuring out how to trigger it with a sample kick, so I could augment the high end. Took some time, but that’s a skill I’m happy to now have. I added 3 different reverb aux tracks for the snare to try and make it sound huge haha.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Normally, if I wanted to kill a hi-hat bleed on a kick while augmenting the hi end, I'd probably use a multiband compressor at that frequency to try to kill the hat. What did you sidechain to the sample kick?

[–] • 2 pts

A gate and Dynamic EQ has always worked for catching the hihat bleed with my own recordings. It just wasn’t sounding right in this kick. When I ducked it, the kick got very pillowy sounding, which can work for a lot of genres, but metal needs that click.

For the sample: I used a plugin called DrumXchanger from Plugin Alliance. It allowed me to set a threshold from the source track, and simple insert a .wav of the new kick. Then it has a transient designer, filters, and a blend knob. Super useful tool.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Oh, now I understand what you did. Brilliant approach!