Hi there,
I’m working on a techno set and i’d like to use some “rumble” samples to give it feeling/movement.
I could create them myself but i’d rather find read-to-use samples.
- Any idea where to find that ?
Regards,
David
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Can I ask why you’d rather use samples than make them yourself?
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Just send your kick to a big reverb and/or delay, put a low pass filter on it, bit of distortion/overdrive then sidechain that to your kick.
You can take it further by recording the results and messing with the audio, like time-stretching it, for different sounding rumbles.
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Record a fart through a pillow, soak it in a mono cavern reverb, then pitch it down and add a hint of slow stereo chorus, finally sidechain the whole thing with the kick to taste.
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I’m not big in sound design and I’m curious to see what samples like this would sound like and how generic they could get
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But techno is all about the sound design. Without that you have nothing.
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i can make at least 4 album title out of that!
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I’ve never seen rumble samples but my guess you’d probably want to make your own because it will be hard to tune/tempo match sampled rumble to a kick/tempo, at least that’s what I imagine…
and just by quickly googling rumble samples I can see that most of them come with kicks and beat so that’s why I imagine having just a rumble sample makes little sense…
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If your in for some free stuff I can recommend our free sample packs.
There is a free pack every week, some are mixes liked this first one. Some are more themed.
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By all means go get a rumble sample and play with it and see what you think. You might like it.
But you should also check out some youtube tutorials on making a techno rumble and try it for yourself. It is fairly easy to do and you may actually enjoy it. If you have already played with samples you should immediately be able to tell the difference and thus form an informed preference.
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This board is so polite 
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@slawa_soloma I believe has a Digitakt sample pack that has some rumble samples along with a bunch of other stuff.
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Hey thanks for the recommendation. Yeah there a pack online. I will make a new one soon for the DT2
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…dunno which daw or hw u got in use…
but in essence, there’s always a way to create the perfectly tailored beneath kik rumble vibe each time again and again without using any prefab puzzle piece…
such a kik rumble is NOTHING but a sonic shadow of UR kik…
no matter if ur kik is sample or synth based…it has three elements…transient, body and tail…
which part is created with what individually or done all with one same thing does not matter…
ur rumble is a result of a paralell fx track…the shadow track…
and just the usual suspects do the job here…eq, delay, compression…maybe some distortion somewhere inbetween…or up front…
to fit in and rely on fixed, readymade samples here is more time consuming, fifddely, too static/breathless and not even half the fun to actually just DO…
too much generic same same vibes in modern techno styles anyways…
enjoy creating ur own rumbles…
just say what ur working with and i tell u what to set up to always create UR individual and perfectly tailored rumble thing, each time again and again with fun and no big fuzz at all…
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Not sure I agree with that but ok. Techno is like any other genre. It’s for enjoyment not design. If you’re a sound designer I guess EVERYTHING is about sound design. LOL I’m sorry if I seem argumentative but for some people the end result is the SONG/TRACK, not HOW you got there.
Just my .02
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Whilst I don’t disagree with you, if you’re making techno that has a rumble, the rumble is often the characteristic sonic element of that style of track. In that case I think that maybe that should then be cast from your own hand. A rumble doesn’t usually have any melodic component so it’s all about the sound design.
Drums, rumble, lead. There are not that many elements to techno, so personally I want to feel I’ve contributed to most of those. But, as with all these things, whatever floats your boat.
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There are really some great answers here.
I do have a couple of questions in order to get you the closest you can get.
@reeloy mentioned about your set up like what hardware or software are you using?
That’s a biggie really. While I can imagine exactly what you mean it would be great to know exactly what you’ve got in the way of your techno set so far (I guess you’re using hardware?) and what type of thing you’re aiming for. Some people like to use an Apple Pencil and an iPad so they can draw in where they want the frequencies and the automation to happen other people have a hardware kick on one input channel and then multiply that channel and concentrate in the gain staging so effectively they’ve got a bus group with say 3-5 of the same kick channel but on is a delay that is 100% wet and another is a reverb that is 100% wet and another is the actual kick. Then each of these channels can have their own dedicated EQ after the effect to make it really clean and target specific frequencies in the spectrum.
The list goes on… so yeah give us some more info!