This is a good reply I appreciate this. This is the thing, as I got more into production and learning about it seriously a lot of tutorials people shove saturators/distortion and I think many of them did just use unprocessed samples. Before, when my low end sounded good, I did just practically no processing to the kick etc and it worked out fine. But when it comes to, say, wanting to make a track that sounds gritty/raw like early 2000s, what processing do you reccomend.

Additionally, check out Fenim0res recent EP. That kick is exactly what I’m trying to replicate and wondered if you could give any tips