I like your knowledge and techniques but I think that kick sounded too cold and sterile to me and it doesn’t really sit with the bass. I prefer a more natural sound. I think less processing, particularly less compression here is needed for it to meld with the bass more
it works, if you read gearslutz forum, this technic is used by TR909 owners, boosting the high and cuting a bit around 200hz depending on your tuning ; no need to hear it in the mix, the basic principle is true
Not nonsense. While you’re mixing you need to do anything you can to pull out frequencies you won’t miss, and add only what allows you to focus the sound. With an increase in the upper range, sometimes i can drop the kick 1/2 a dB with the same impact, and that means there’s more room for the bassline. 909 kick in particular clashes with basslines because it’s very full-range. That’s why a bunch of techno barely has a bassline at all. On big speakers, 909 kick plus other bass is often just too much.
