Texas
Mud out, level unchanged
Texas is a wide, level-matched cut over the muddy area. From 0 to 18 dB of cut the output moves 0.04 dB, so you judge the tone instead of the loudness. Width shapes it to the drum.
Kick drum channel · VST3 · AU
Visioääni KickTexas cut, real click.
A complete kick channel for big modern rock and metal. Texas takes the mud out of the low mids and the output level stays where it was.
Click builds the beater attack from your own kick, so there is no sample to line up and nothing that sounds pasted on.
What it does
Click
A click made from your kick
Close kick mics carry almost nothing above 250 Hz. Click takes the kick's own attack band through a tube stage before the compressor, so the click gets the same treatment as the hit.
Room
A room that keeps the sub dry
Both reverbs get a fourth-order send high-pass at 300 Hz. The thump stays in front and the room only carries the attack.
Sync
Lines up with the snare
Kick listens to the Snare plugin, measures its own delay on the 50–400 Hz band and moves into line. On a real session it found the subkick 6.9 ms late.
Controls
The front panel, left to right and top to bottom. Every control reads 0–10. DEEP adds: Gate Fine, Texas Fine, Comp, Click Fine, Detail, Sync.
| Module | Controls | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| In | Input · Bleed | Input trim and bleed control before anything else. |
| Gate | Gate · Tail | Keeps snare and tom spill out of the kick mic. Tail sets how the hit closes. |
| Low | Sub · Tune · Thump | Sub weight, the drum's own note and the punch above it. |
| Texas | Texas · Width | Level-matched cut over the muddy area. |
| Click | Click · Tone · Tight | Beater attack generated from the kick itself. |
| Hit | Dynamite · Violence · Slam | Attack, tail length and parallel squash, level-matched. |
| Room | Room · Gate · Nasa | Tiled room and chamber with a high-passed send, gate and width. |
| America | America | Weight against attack, last in the chain. |
| Satellite | Listen · Link · Amount | Removes hi-hat bleed using the Hihat + Cymbal plugin as the reference. |
| Out | Level · Ceiling · Mix | Look-ahead limiter and dry/wet. |
Measured
Four kick tracks, defaults only, share of energy per band.
| Band | Raw | Defaults |
|---|---|---|
| Below 60 Hz | 30–34 % | 21–23 % |
| 60–120 Hz (the thump) | 54–62 % | 64–70 % |
| 120–250 Hz (body) | 17–20 % | 17–20 % |
| 1.5–4 kHz (beater) | 0.0 % | 0.2–0.3 % |
| Tail, one kick (BD_17) | 30.1 ms | 10.5 ms |
Specifications
- Formats
- VST3 (Windows, macOS) · AU (macOS)
- Systems
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit · macOS 11 or later, Apple silicon and Intel
- Sample rates
- 44.1 to 192 kHz
- Latency
- 2144 samples (44.7 ms at 48 kHz), fixed, reported to the host
- CPU
- 4.1 % of one core per instance at 48 kHz
- Version
- 1.4.0
Questions about Kick
Does Click use samples?
No. Click is generated from the kick's own attack band through a tube stage, so it follows every hit, including the quiet ones.
Can I use it on a sub kick or a kick-in mic?
Yes. Put one instance on each mic. Sync lines each of them up with the snare on its own, and a subkick is typically several milliseconds late because the speaker cone has its own delay.
Why does the plugin report latency?
Sync needs a fixed 10 ms window to move the track earlier, and the limiter looks ahead. The latency never changes while you work, and your DAW compensates it.
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