Even outside of trap, the bass is key to anchoring the song and it's key and scale that it plays in. One way you could do that without other plugins is completely reverse the note placements in a new pattern within your DAW and then just bounce it to audio and reverse the entire audio clip, that way the main melody is retained and not backwards lol (honestly I've never done this, I imagine there is an easier way).Īnd then i would work on the notes your bassline is playing, it's too all over the place. You could also use some kind of effect that plays each note in reverse, giving it that cool, very trappy fade-in effect. Might wanna make the attack time slower on the melody as well, so each note (or only some?) kind of fades in and isn’t so harsh upon arrival. Also probably turn your snare up, and experiment with both changing the panning of the hi-hats/snare, and changing up the actual drum patterns themselves often so that it doesn't get stale.ĭefinitely turn the melody down (wayyyyy too loud), put an EQ on it to remove a LOT of unnecessary low-end (like probably everything under 60 or 80hz) and slightly tame high-end frequencies by a couple dB, and then add a filter (could be low, band or high pass) with an automated cutoff frequency for a sense of movement, and/or add a phaser/flanger with slow rate time.
Overall your drums probably need more volume, but make sure if you compress the drums that you check the before/after volume levels so that the volume isn't too crazy increased. Sidechain the kick to duck the the rest of the song around the kick as it hits, also with fast attack and release time on the sidechain compressor. Might want to compress the drums on a bus track with fast attack/release times for added oomph. You definitely don't want too heavy reverb on trap drums, as the kicks, snares and hi-hats need to be punchy, short and sweet.
If that’s reverb on the drums i hear, id remove it, but it's not terrible, more of a personal preference.