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Wow. No love in this thread for the TBS or Good Charlotte kiks or John Feldmann's production values.
Well, in trying to keep with the original poster's positive spin and counter alot of the negativity which I don't think is in the spirit of his question, I have to say I love all of it. What I like about the TBS and GS kiks is that they're different and I find that refreshing. They're what I used to call "floor board kiks" because they remind me of when I was young and we used to cruise around in my buddy's Chevy half ton and I'd tap my boot on the floor board along to the kik drums in the tunes we were listening to... had a nice thump. Some of these kiks also really remind me of Van Halen kiks from around the time of Hot For Teacher. All of them can be cranked to the max on a car stereo without launching the speakers into outer space which I always thought was kind of cool. As far as samples and similarities, I don't know if they were used in this stuff we're talking about, but it's pretty easy to get them just with EQ... you just crank the crap out of the mids around 1khz (and maybe compress the crap out of those mids)... roll off the low sub frequencies (maybe boost around 70 or 80hz with a narrow bell), and any high end is usually more lower highs or very upper mids. I'm not a professional engineer but it only took me a few minutes to figure this out and try it... it works. And I'm sure it helps to have a drum and mic that compliment this to give you a good place to start.
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