Ayo, Im looking to add flavor 2 my drums. Need software amps, compressors etc). Any recomendations??

[DJ Mart-Kos]

You never throw reverb on the kicks, at least to my knowledge. Only way would be to extract the high end frequencies (400 hz +) and work from there.

There's a lot of beats with reverb on the kicks though.
It's just with that EQ inside the Reverb you cut off the low frequencies of your reverb. So the kicks aren't as noticable as the snares reverb tail since snares have more high end.
But it's true, a lot of producers stick to only reverb on Snares and Toms.
I personally like to have my drums sounding like they where all in the same room.
If i want Snares with extra reverb, i just pick another extra Snare and throw reverb on that and sequence that on top of the dry Snare.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

Man, i wanna learn compression so bad.
I watch these videos and afterwards i end up still not understanding compression.

 

[ThaRealness]

Man, i wanna learn compression so bad.
I watch these videos and afterwards i end up still not understanding compression.

Lol Im an amateur wit it, but I still soak my beats in compression. Just fukk around with the knobs until your shyt sounds tough

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I'm told a Compressor is basically just an very fast automated Volume knob.

 

[ThaRealness]

I'm told a Compressor is basically just an very fast automated Volume knob.

Yeah, except it also boosts background noise by flattening the mix. Thats why parallel compression (layering a heavily compressed signal over an uncompressed signal) is the way to go.

 

[Propaganda]

There's a lot of beats with reverb on the kicks though.
It's just with that EQ inside the Reverb you cut off the low frequencies of your reverb. So the kicks aren't as noticable as the snares reverb tail since snares have more high end.
But it's true, a lot of producers stick to only reverb on Snares and Toms.
I personally like to have my drums sounding like they where all in the same room.
If i want Snares with extra reverb, i just pick another extra Snare and throw reverb on that and sequence that on top of the dry Snare.

in that case, make a drum bus (send all your drums to a single track) and then put some light compression/reverb/whatever to "glue" them together on it.

 

[ibrokemyneck]

DaMn I forgot to mention sausage fattener

 

[nineteeneightysix]

For Bass Drum in Fl Studio

JCM900 (as is, google Gsuite Vst package or something like that, it is free)
Fruity Compressor (Fast Master preset)
Parametric EQ (Bassdrum Punch preset)
Fruity Compressor (Optmaster preset)
Parametric EQ 2 (cut anything below 63 hz and anthing above 6300 Hz)
Multiband Compressor (Crazy Bass preset)

You can also add Maximus (breakslam preset or other kick drum presets they have)
Add reverb to your liking..I don't like reverb on the kick...

For Snare drums in Fl Studio

Fruity Delay bank (6 voice choir preset, just below the preset select arrow on VST there is an "FB" knob, put it at 50% or your liking)
Fruity reverb (as is, adjust parameters to your liking)
Fruity compressor (fast master preset)
parametric eq (snare enhancer preset)
Fruity compressor (optmaster preset)
Parametric eq2 (cut anything below 135Hz)
Fruity Blood Overdrive (as is)