I've got a nice loop going at the moment, that really deep throb sort of bass sound that you can't quite pinpoint if it's bass notes or what.. you know what I mean???
first I downloaded this set of drum beats from a3k central called 'bigbeat drum kit'.. loaded in to my a3000. created a couple of nice rythms with it.. lots of kicks all over the shop.. I kept referencing it against the proper kick I'd be using in the track.
once I had two or three nice loops I resampled them in the a3000 as one 4 bar loop (that 3 loops altogether) not sampled at 44khz but 22khz and 10khz on this lo-fi setting the a3000 had (I think it's 8 bit or 12 bit).
then I triggered the loops from the a3000 one of them is lo-pass filtered just to get the throbbing bass. the other os hi-pass filtered and dephased for the trably floaty hi-hats
the whole thing is chucked through a tap-delay which has the bass rolled off so it don't clash with the main rythm... nice.. and it's a great basis for a track.
I'm also compressing the loops together. with the main kick to get that pumping techno sound. the hi-hat loops and proper hi-hats samples are going through distortion to bring out some of the hi-gher harmonics to lift them a bit.
can't stress how important eq balance is on a sound like this, you really need to chuck frequencies together and compress them, eq em to get the balance just right.. the result is that rolling deep bass sound you can allways hear in clubs and on tracks but you can never program straight.. it's a result of pushing stuff together.
erm that any help to ya? I sort of go off on one when it comes to techno rythms
