If you want to add more ‘weight’ and dramatic impact to your breakdowns, use low boom explosion -type of sound effects. They are very easy to create yet effective and if you reverse it, you’ll get a nice ‘uplifter’ effect.
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a BOOOM sfx in FL Studio.
First, you need a simple kick drum – basic 909 kick will work just fine. Drop it to the Playlist and assign it to a free mixer track. Go to the Mixer and drop a Fruity Reeverb 2 to the kick drums fx slot. Choose a preset called ‘Large hall’ and set the Predelay to 0ms. Turn Decay to something quite long like 12 seconds:
Drop a Fruity Free Filter to the kick drums fx slot. Choose Low Pass Filter (default) and turn the Q to zero and Cutoff Frequency to around 250-300Hz:
Ok, it’s pretty much ready. Now, make a selection of few bars (just to let the long reverb tail to be played) and listen the end results:
Nice boom eh?
You can now record it to WAV (CTRL+R) so you can use it in your future projects. Just make a selection long enough so that the reverb tail will be fully recorded.
Here’s an additional tip: If you reverse it, you’ll get a nice uplifter. Reversing is easy. Just drop the recorded sound to the Playlist, double click it to open the Channel Settings and turn on the Reverse under the ‘Precomputed effects’:
This is how it’ll sound (I just shortened it few bars as the reverb tail is quite long):
That’s about it.
Check the video:
Enjoy making your own boom effects! 🙂
Download FL Studio Project File Fro BOOOM Sfx
24 Comments
Hello, and thank you for that awesome tutorial on making the boom sound in fl studio. I am having a problem where every time I load my boom .wav sample into a project, it truncates the reverb tail, even thought the full wave shows up in edison. Do you know what could be causing that or what I’m doing wrong? For example I make a boom and the waveform looks like |||||iiii>>————, but every time it shortens it to look like ||||iii>> .
Thank You.
Hey Lance, try this: double click the wav sample and it should open the Channel settings -window. Under the ‘Time stretching’, turn the Time -knob to all left ( 000:00:00 ). Does it help?
Yes it does! Thank you.
Hi,i agree with you that is cool tutorial.I am beat maker.
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Now i’m going to read and try.
Hi Jim, that is great! Keep an eye on this site for more stuff coming very soon 😉
Hello!
I love this site and all the tutorials, but since I use Ableton I find it hard to do some things as showed here. Does anyone know any similar sites like this? Would help a lot. Thanks!
Awesome tutorial! Though I used Logic and not FL, it worked just as well!
Excellent! 🙂
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Thanks! I’ll try my best to keep producing these 🙂
Do you mean 12 seconds or ms for decay in reverb 2???
Yeah I meant 12 seconds and NOT milliseconds… thanks for pointing it out! Need to fix that 🙂
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Cool! 🙂
its a nice fx, i like it, but here it sounds too low, can i mess with the freq to make the volume sound higher?
thanks
Definetely – do whatever it’s necessary to make it work in your end. This was just a starting point. 8)
compared to the other sounds it sound low, too low
Seems that I’m kinda late with comments but… Petri, THX a lot for this lesson!
Amazing effect – works well for me!
Especially good when I’m combining two effects in one – 1st is reversed boom that leads to normal boom with 2 ms delay – sounds very epic, I must say!
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hi i got a problem with these boom sounds and impact kicks , when i put them in the mix you can barely hear them and turning the volume up is not working to good, does any body have a trick or a tip to help me with this not a lot of tutorials out there about this, thank you!!!!!
I made the boom sound and it sounds really good but when i add to my song it kinda looses its value. Boom is played along with a release whoosh sound. What should I do??
Nice explained. useful tips. God bless Bangladeshi music.