How To Make A Sampled Techno Rumble Like Shed (Head High)

Hello and welcome to my tutorial on how to make the Shed / Head High short techno rumble. The key is to make a long reverb rumble then get it in sampler and shape it with slow attack so it hits just after the kick. They process it, and then position it with midi.

A Video Tutorial Of The Head High Techno Rumble:

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Follow These Steps To Make The Head High Techno Rumble:

1. Get a good 909 kick drum and set up a four to the floor pattern. Process it to taste.
2. Add a rumble to it… To get that ‘techno rumble’ reverbing sub bass you want to add a reverb to kick. I copy the kick drum to a second channel and I process it first with reverb, then tame the reverb down with filters. Distort it with drum buss and filter it down again. I add distortions with the ‘drive’ on both filters too. We are aiming for a short rumble. But at this stage it can be long as we’ll cut it shorter in the sampler later. I make the kick drum pattern sparser for the rumble so there’s only one or two kicks in the bar, this way you get a longer rumble and then you can take your pick from which part you use in the sampler. You can get my rumble rack I used in the Downloads section below.
3. Take the rumble and freeze that channel and then flatten it. Both of these functions are done with a right-click. This then turns the track to audio, so it’s the same as if you recorded the sample in from hardware.
4. Make a new channel with a sampler in and drag the frozen clip into the sampler.
5. You then want to shape the sound in the sampler, this is the most important part. I add drive at the filter section and then use the amp envelope to cut release short but add attack to taste so the sample start a bit after the kick. So you get a really short but ‘late’ rumble. You want the sample to sound like an echo of the kick. The slow attack makes the rumble a bit off in timing. You can also move the midi notes a bit later to give it that ‘off’ feeling. I also tame the high end down again with filters, and add more drive too.

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