FL Studio: How to Add More Thump to Your Kick Drums

Have you ever used a sampled kick drum that has the sound you’re looking for, but not enough thump? Well I have the perfect solution for you that is extremely simple to do.

The first thing you have to do is open up your desired kick into a new audio channel. Next, go into your channel settings and turn the trim knob at the bottom all the way to the right. This will get rid of any unused sound frequencies that were left in the clip when it was sampled.

Now we will add an effect to the kick. Open up the mixer by pressing F9. Now you must add the effect called, “Fruity Parametric EQ 2,” into the first insert on your mixer. Now link your kick drum channel to the effect by changing the effect number in the top right hand corner of your channel settings to 1. Now that your channel is linked to the parametric EQ effect, we can begin shaping the kick. First, move the ball with the number 2 inside it up to about 140hz. This will add some bass to your kick. Next move the ball with the number 1 inside it up to 148hz. This will add the low end bass that most sampled kicks lack. You should now notice that your kick has a much louder thump to it.