Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
Well, if you get good with your EQ, you can pull the kick frequencies out of the bass, just right, so the kick sits right in the middle of it, yet, it sounds like the bass hasn`t been touched.
for the nerds in the house, this is a psychoacoustic effect called "perceptual completion". it works best with white noise (if a sound is muted off, some white noise played, then the sound unmuted, we will tend to imagine that the sound was playing the whole time and the white noise just played on top), but with clever eqing it's possible with other sounds as well. i think it's really the key to making a track sound fuller than full.