Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Watch Joey Sturgis make percussive elements POP! These are simple tips and tricks for punchy drum production featuring Drumforge's newest plugin, DF-XCITE 2 - a multiband harmonic exciter.

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0:00 Intro
0:48 DF-XCITE 2
1:00 Percussive Elements Overview
2:30 Harmonic Exciting
3:03 Get Percussions to Jump Out
4:50 Harmonic Saturation
5:19 How to Start
6:00 EQ tricks to carve space in the mix
7:25 Before and after bypass
8:05 Multiband pros, final tips and recap

Tags: drumforge, drum samples #homerecording #productiontips