Quote Originally Posted by etnarama
I never cut the kick, only the bass, depending the note and only at 40hz max.
In techno its much better if you leave the lower spectrum of the kick, not saying like in hardtekno where everything is so muddled, dont understand how do they produce so badly and still sell stuff ...... oh i do cut everything else....
Sometimes in the mastering process i do lower the low freq but dont cut it.
This all depends of which type of kick you use, if its very muddled and dirty or not. I tend to use a more cleaner kick. But i do my own kicks.
referrring to the bad hardtechno (the newer 145/150 + stuff) production, chris liebing once said sth. along the lines of. these producers kinda modeled their tracks using live-recordings from dj sets in clubs (think rush/liebing himself in his harder days) with all the PA introduced distortion/ruffness/saturation rences. And he said those records were the ones he has problems with. I think that holds some truth. Because if your tracks are to distorted when on the record, then the PA will add dist. to that again which certainly can't be good. So i am rather careful with distortion alltogether - it sure has it's value on certain elemens but one should always think about the place were stuff is supposed to be played - clubs. rant off