GORGON CITY

How to layer your bass cm254

In 2012, wobble house maestro Kye ‘Foamo’ Gibbon and future junglist Matt ‘RackNRuin’ Robson-Scott met and formed deep house project Gorgon City, responsible for hits including All Four Walls ft. Vaults, Saving My

Life ft. Romans. Here’s their general bass advice including revealing the direct bass practice in their track Imagination ft. Katy Menditta…

“We spend quite a lot of time working on bass. It’s one of the things that we’re known for,” says Kye. “We’ve got a main bass and a reverbed ‘donk’ bass, so there are only two layers of midrange bass and then one sub. We might have three or four layers and a sub, and the sub is literally just a sine wave coming out of Massive. We’ve compressed it a little bit so all the notes are at the same level, then sidechained it to the kick. We’ll have that in all our tunes, just to create a solid bottom end. We’ll always put 10ms lookahead on the sidechain so you don’t get any dodgy clicking. We’ve got the Knee at zero to make it a nice, snappy, brickwall kind of sidechain. We’ll always have the Attack at zero or next to zero, and we’ll set the Release to how long we want the ducking for, just using our ears, really.”