How to Make Rawstyle Kicks

First I make the punch. I load up the Analog BD sine wave. LFO 1 acts as an envelope, and I add it to the coarse pitch at around 29. Then I distort it with Diode 1 immediately.

Then I load up the flanger, the HL6 minus. Crank the drive all the way, add a little bit of high-pass, and finally a compressor on multiband. In LFO 2, make it look like a punch and add it to the level. You immediately get that very characteristic sound.

I duplicate the punch into the punch reverb channel. ValhallaRoom on it, then OTT. That one is very important. Then an EQ, any parametric EQ is fine, just cut the bass and cut the highs. In Fruity Limiter make sure there's no ceiling, so it's not limiting, and automate the gain.

The punch reverb also goes into a channel with the crunch. In that channel nothing plays except the reverb and the crunch, and all I add there is distortion.

One more thing is Serum FX. Add a multiband compressor, take down the threshold and enable multiband. I put it in front of everything and take down the mix. This does play with the phase, so render the kick. Don't use this as your final kick channel. Then you've snapshotted the kick with the same phase each time.

Then I can go back and change the kick. When I change the sample start of the crunch, I'm looking for the punch and the crunch to blend together properly in terms of phase. You want it consistent, so it's not ducking at certain points.