REQ: Mix-Ready Songwriting Template Knocked Loose
Full songwriting template in the style of the band Knocked Loose. Hard hitting drums, aggressive bass & rhythm guitar tones, leads and additional FX.
DAWs
available now:
Cubase 8 and above (Elements, Artist and Pro)
Reaper
Studio One 5 and above
Logic Pro X
Ableton Live 11
FL Studio
Features
This template includes:
Mix-Ready drums (GGD OKW 'Brutal' with Multi-Out routing)
Custom Mix-Ready Drum Map for easy drum programming
Rhythm, Clean, and Lead guitar tones
Plugin chains for real bass guitar and MIDI bass
In-depth processing with stock and free plugins only
Mastering plugin chain for glue, punch and commercial loudness
Additional FX samples (impacts, reverse effects, snare bombs, etc.)
The DI tracks and whole arrangement of the demo song: Everything is Quiet Now - by Knocked Loose. So you can listen to the individual elements of the mix and analyze how they add up to the finished mix.
Description
The GetGood Drums "Brutal" drum sample library is the perfect choice if you're a songwriter for aggressive music. Hearing these drums, they reminded me a lot of the raw, aggressive drums that Knocked Loose have in their music. With the help of the incredible Zain MHZ, who covered the song "Everything is Quiet Now", I was able to create a full mix in the style of modern Hardcore bands like Knocked Loose.
The drums are multi-out routed into your DAW. I mainly used the built-in mixer of Kontakt 7, to add some mixing and additional mojo to the individual drum tracks. There is parallel compression, parallel clipping and additional reverb to make these drums cut through any dense wall of guitars.
For bass, you can use a real bass guitar or MIDI bass in this template. The processing is done with stock plugins and the free Growler amp plugin. I prepared the tracks so that you can instantly start recording your bass or write the bass midi.
The guitar sounds are created with the Neural DSP: Archetype Gojira X amp simulation. Aggressive rhythm tones, quads, psycho lead and an ambient clean tone - it's all included. Have fun with the additional FX samples (impacts, reverse effects, snare bombs, etc.) and see how they lift your songs and add the final 5% to a finished track.
Speed up your workflow with this Mix-Ready songwriting template!
Requirements
Please take a look at the image above, for the requirements of the two versions.
You need:
Kontakt 7 Player (free) or Full Version
GetGood Drums One Kit Wonder: Brutal
Neural DSP: Archetype Gojira X
Stock plugins of your DAW
TSE BOD v3.0.0 (free) *
The Growler bass amp (free)
TDR Nova EQ (free)
TDR Molotok compressor (free)
Klanghelm MJUCjr compressor (free)
Valhalla Supermassive (free)
KClip Zero (free) *
Additionally, for the Basic version:
Fire (free multiband distortion, like FabFilter Saturn) *
Additionally, for the Full version:
FabFilter Saturn
FabFilter Pro-L2
JST Transify
Waves Puigtec EQ *
* KClip Zero, Fire, TSE BOD v3.0.0 and Waves Puigtec EQ are not needed for Logic Pro X and Ableton.
Gear used
Rhythm guitars: Cort KX307 - Power Bar Humbucker (bridge)
Quad guitars & lead: Bareknuckle Polymath (bridge)
Clean guitar: Bareknuckle Mississippi Queen (single coil, neck)
Bass guitar: Cort C5 Plus OVMH