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New Music Gear Monday: Boz Digital Labs Little Foot Kick Enhancer Plugin
Sometimes you need a little more girth from a kick drum, but EQing down at 40-60Hz can make it sound flabby. Back in the early days of dance music we’d use this trick – set an oscillator to a desired low frequency then trigger it via a gate with a sidechain connected to the kick drum. There you have it, deep low end on your kick. Of course, this method is a little finicky to set up, and that’s where Boz Digital Labs Little Foot kick enhancer plugin comes into play. It makes it easy to apply this old trick, with a few extra features as well.
Plugin Features
Little Foot consists of two sections – Oomph and Dry. The Dry section passes through the dry signal, but also employs a switchable High-Pass Filter with variable frequency and a Resonance control. Resonance allows you to add some boost right at the corner frequency of the HPF. You get rid of all the frequencies that are causing mud, yet still get the low end boost that you might be looking for. This plugin might be worth it for that feature alone.
But the real magic comes from its Oomph section. Frequency is the oscillator that’s giving you that low-end boost, while Sustain and Threshold are basically gate controls for the oscillator. Threshold controls when the oscillator will be triggered by the kick, while Sustain controls how long the gate will remain open (just like a Hold control on a gate).
Tune’er Up
One of the cool features of this method is that you can tune the low end of the kick to match the key of the song. This can be especially important with dance music, where the last thing you want is dissonance between the kick and a synth bass. Little Foot allows you to get that low end and tune it right up quickly and easily.
Maybe the best part of Little Foot is the price. It’s available for just $10 right now (usually its $49). You can find out more about it or buy it here, or see the video below.
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