Tips on rumbling techno sub/bass

[AdamJay]

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Dark Rumbling Techno Kick w/ RYTM?

Hi, this a question for all RYTM-owners who make Techno. Im thinking about complementing my OT with a RYTM. Apart from all the fancy stuff the RYTM can do, Im hoping that the Kickdrum will be nice. Im tryin to achieve those deep, dark, rumbling, forward pushing Kicks, like in those tracks for example: Ive seen that Ansome (the guy from the second track) uses one, though I dont know if his Kick is coming straight out of the RYTM. Maybe he did lots of extra processing on top. Ive been tr…

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. …