#808 bass drum kit series#

It is, as its name implies, a recreation of a bass drum (or kick drum), but as with most gear produced in the analog days of synthesis and drum machines, it of course ended up sounding nothing like the real thing! But that actually became itВґs biggest strength: people became increasingly enamored with the 808 sub kick, and its ability to be able to tune the sine wave that constituted the вЂњbodyвЂќ of the bass sound to any desired note. The one timbre that has become most deeply associated with the 808, and with modern hip hop and trap music in general, is the sub kick.

#808 bass drum kit series#

This machine, and others like it, was and still is used in most urban music production environments as a chief sound source (alongside other classics, like the Akai MPC series units). What is most specific to the genre is the heavy use of classic drum samplers and drum machines to create these sounds, especially the now almost legendary vintage Roland TR-808. Hip hop has always been chiefly centered around the three biggest elements of a drum kit: the bass drum, the snare drum and the hi-hat. In urban music (and hip hop in particular) the rhythmic and percussive elements are truly at the forefront, and this has a lot to do with the musical heritage and identity of the genre as a whole. Everybody knows that, if there is one characteristic that really makes a Hip Hop beat stick out from any other genre of music, itВґs that instantly recognizable booming bass drum that marks the focal points of the rhythm, and gives the beat that certain вЂњthumpвЂќ.