Techno rumble bass

[AdamJay]

Techno (Sub-) Bass

I’ve employed a technique that yields a similar result in this track: Basically, it involves reverberating the kick with a long tail, then band-pass filtering the reverberation down to around 30hz thru 50hz, then giving the result a sharp Q EQ boost in the same resonant frequency as the kick. You get the sub bass to play off the kick by side-chain compressing the reverberation heavily, with the kick as the key input. That way when the kick hits, the sub bass completely gets out of the way. …