Use CMT Bitcrusher VST, set bit-depth to either 12bit or 16bit, downsampling to 2x and turn up the drive to whatever you like. 808 kick settingsĪnother thing I sometimes do, is to layer the snare with a pitched down clap and most of the time, I add a bitcrusher effect on my kicks, snares, claps and hi hats, but not on the 808 kick.
Be careful how you mix the 808 kick, since the low frequencies can clash with your bassline. Select a preset called Gated Reverb and turn the Gate Sensitivity to around 90%, Hold to around 10-30ms and FX mix level in the mixer effect slots to around 40%.
And you could also add some gated reverb on the 808, use a plugin called Omniverb. Just make sure you make the 808 Kick monophonic, so it wont distort on itself. If you want to give your kicks some extra boom, you might want to layer it with an 808 Kick. The less kicks you use in your drum patterns, the more they will thump, because you give the kick enough time to decay, so it creates a difference in volume levels. The drum patterns in G-Funk beats are pretty simple. For strings, use Edirol Orchestral (which has multiple orchestral instruments) or DSK Strings (only has strings). You can use that plugin for both synth sounds and basses. If you dont have one available to record, use a plugin called MinimogueVA. If you want to make G-Funk beats, its mandatory to have some type of synth, preferably a Minimoog synth. For bass, if you dont have a bass guitar to record, you can use either a synth plugin or a bass plugin like Trilian. If you need a funky guitar riff, you can use VST plugins such as RealStrat, RealLPC or Rob Papens RG, but the best option is to get a guitar player to play for you (or play it yourself). For electric pianos, you can use a VST plugin like Lounge Lizard or Lazysnake, you can record your own if you have one available, or use a sample. If you can, you can always record your own live drums. For drums, you could get them from sampling drum breaks from funk and soul records, but it doesnt really matter that much, you can make a G-Funk beat with any drum sounds you have available. Next you need the sounds you hear usually in G-Funk and Funk music, stuff like drums, electric pianos, basses, guitars and synths. Since I use FL Studio, this guide will be based on it. If you want to make G-Funk beats, first youll need a digital audio workstation software like Reason, FL Studio, Cubase etc. Between 19, G-Funk was the dominant genre in hip hop music. It is well known for using elements of funk music and even samples from funk music with an artificially lowered tempo, deep basslines and the genres signature high pitched whine synthesizer. G-Funk is a sub-genre of hip hop music that developed from the West Coast hip hop of the early 1990s. I no longer use some of the techniques I presented in this article.
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