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Khazm wrote:

ehbrums1 wrote:that sine wave is called you sub bass, which the one you feel hitting you in the chest. you high pass your other basses to make it more clear in the mix, sine actually have no harmonics so your wrong there but you also want to high pass you kick at 100 hz as well and again just to clear up your mix

I'd never high pass my kick at 100hz, IMO you don't get the nice boom or the full hit of the sample when doing so. I'd normally highpass mine at 60ish hz. But I mainly produce house music, so maybe it's different with dubstep.

fair.. I noticed electro/house and even hardstyle kicks are more heavier than dubstep kicks, I usually spectrum analyze pro tracks and notice house and such hit around 60-70hz and dubstep usually 80-110hz, not sure why I repeated what you said in other words lol but I agree with you

sorry for double post but has anyone thought of tuning your kick or at least the BOOM of the kick (subkick) at around 80100z? then of course layering a nice transient on top to compliment the foundation? that way there is no need to high pass your kick and still feel that thump?

MassAphekt wrote:

Khazm wrote:

ehbrums1 wrote:that sine wave is called you sub bass, which the one you feel hitting you in the chest. you high pass your other basses to make it more clear in the mix, sine actually have no harmonics so your wrong there but you also want to high pass you kick at 100 hz as well and again just to clear up your mix

I'd never high pass my kick at 100hz, IMO you don't get the nice boom or the full hit of the sample when doing so. I'd normally highpass mine at 60ish hz. But I mainly produce house music, so maybe it's different with dubstep.

fair.. I noticed electro/house and even hardstyle kicks are more heavier than dubstep kicks, I usually spectrum analyze pro tracks and notice house and such hit around 60-70hz and dubstep usually 80-110hz, not sure why I repeated what you said in other words lol but I agree with you

It's personal preference.

In electro/house/techno/trance/pretty much anything with a 4/4 kick the kick will be the main source of sub frequencies. In dubstep we want to make our wobbles feel good, so we have to leave room for the real bass, and just high pass the kick a little bit.

If you would leave them both at the same (60hz or w/e) freq, the sound would effectively be twice as loud (So you'd have to lower the volume for both your kick and sub in half)




And to the kid mentioning 808 and 909 kick drums, seriously... the kicks will be at the frequency you pitch them at lol, you could have a 20khz 808 for all I care.