How to Make Hollow Industrial Kicks in FL Studio

A lot of people make the mistake of distorting the punch the classic way, with a clipper. The trick is wave folding. It instantly makes your kick a lot more industrial. I use Distructor on Wave folder, but the sine shaper in Serum 2's effects is really good too. I'd almost prefer it.

Keep the pre amp low though. Add too much at any stage and you ruin your kick. You're not going for the final punch sound yet.

The rumble is the clean kick through a reverb. Dry down, 50% reverb, long decay, no low cut, no high cut. Render it and process it.

Then don't add much of it at the start. I blend it in towards the end of the kick. That's where you get these really hollow kicks, because the punch gets to stay blunt and open.

At this point you might think it sounds like trash. Here's the trick. Duplicate the punch and put a reverb on it with the room size way down. You get an extremely metallic sound. Route that into the full kick, so it goes through the same wave folding as everything else. Huge difference.