Adding 808 bass drums to your beats is essential to giving your beats a deep, full sound. There are thousands of bass drums you can find online, and finding one that fits you can be tricky. Personally I use the same 808 in almost every single beat that I make. However, in each beat I tune it differently to the key of my samples being used, and I mess around with the medium and low frequencies on it. I also usually add some type of distortion to it to give it a deeper and grittier sound. My favorite plugin to use when it comes to distorting my 808s is CamelCrusher. CamelCrusher is a free plugin designed to add distortion to whichever instrument you apply it to. It has some knobs to mess around with to customize and save your own settings, but I personally cycle through the default presets until one sounds close to the sound I am going for. Once I get there then I do all of my adjusting on the FL Studio 10 parametric EQ. Adding the distortion can give you a dirty scratchy sound similar to the ones used on Kanye West’s “On Sight“, but if you take out the high and medium frequencies you are usually left with a clean, deep, sub-thumping bass sound.

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