

You can experiment much more with this, here’s some other things to try… You can add almost any kick into this chain, some will work very well. The finished techno rumble kick sounds like this: Some other things to try And add an Ableton glue compressor to it to bring both the kick and sub elements together.

Step 3: Glue the kick and sub with compression Just this channel soloed should sound like this, a booming sub at the same frequency as the kick. I then Saturate and eq again for the same reasons as above. it to bring out the reverb a bit, but also to tame it with the e.q. But it needs processing… I overdrive it and saturate it and e.q. I copy the kick track from step 1 to a second channel so there are 2 kick channels the same, and then I add reverb to the second one with the settings as in the image below. It should sound like this: Step 2: Make a reverb rumble bass from the kick I then add overdrive to the kick to give it a bit of grunt. We take the the 909 core kick in Ableton and make a standard four-to-the-floor kick pattern.

Techno Rumble ABL file Download Step 1: Processing a 909 kick Download the Ableton Rumble Kick file here: We’ll run through a really simple version here, but you can tweak it as much as you like and use different types of processing on the bass or the kick. The bass feels like an extension of the kick. It is a really useful production method to learn.īecause the kick and the sub bass come from the same sound source (the kick) they have similar tonal qualities and it give the beat rally nice effect where the kick and sub seem to be the same thing. You can find this sound in classic Tresor records and old Mills sets, and still find it used today in many productions, you even hear it in some of the more mainstream techno that is popular at the moment from the likes of Drumcode aswell as the harder and tougher industrial techno that is associated with DJs like Perc. Read on for a full explanation of how to make this sound….
