Fusing the kick with the bassline

[Jay Pace]

Sometimes the attack and punch of the kick is matched to the attack and punch of the deep bass.

So you get the effect of two kicks - the kick from the drum, and the kick from the sub.

Not sure if thats what you meant, but its a technique that gets used a lot - matching the characteristics of bass synth to match the kicks. Not too difficult to do either...

[loopdon]

Sometimes the attack and punch of the kick is matched to the attack and punch of the deep bass.

So you get the effect of two kicks - the kick from the drum, and the kick from the sub.

Not sure if thats what you meant, but its a technique that gets used a lot - matching the characteristics of bass synth to match the kicks. Not too difficult to do either...

This should work even better if both the drums and the bass stem from synthesizers where the adsr settings can be freely adjusted.

Another idea might be to ''vocode' a kick over a bassline. And yet another might be to use a kickdrum sample as an I(mpulse)R(esponse) in a convolution reverb and use that over the bassline.