Beefing out bass with low percussion

40:35 Tom needs some low percussion in the mix to supplement the kicks, so he selects a 909 kit from the Live Suite library so he can jam with the tom sounds via his Ableton Push 2 controller. In a similar way to the kick earlier, he routes this element to a return track; and delays, reverbs, filters and ducks the toms to create a bassline, which he then bounces to audio. “If you listen to it on its own, it’s boring – but that doesn’t matter, because it’s just filling up the space in the bass area.” He then uses MeldaProduction’s MBassador to generate subharmonics under the signal and fill up the low frequencies.