Hi,
Am relatively new to electro but have made drum and bass for a while. I aim to make tunes with drums that have a fair amount of punch like Wolfgang Gartner. I used to think that in house the kick had all the low end punch with the snare tending to have just snap (clap+normal snare) and tops - The snare having the lo punch hi-passed out. However when listening to Gartner or Madeon's music it seems that their snares still have plenty of lo-end punch (say 160 hz) even when sitting over a kick drum. Is it common to notch eq
away frequencies in the kick where the snare's punch resides? How do you combine the two? You see the kick and the snare rarely sit on top of each other in drum n bass/dubstep.

Thanks

The standard EQ and compression should suffice. You might want to try multiband distortion to add more to the bottom of the snare.

Hi,
Thanks for this. So do producers retain the lo-end punch (150 - 200hz)of their snares even when layered on top of a kick?

Thanks

I find it helps to fit them together with a little EQing. Fore example, find the frequency of the snare's low-end punch (usually between 150 and 200 Hz), and boost that frequency by 1 or 2 dbs, then, on the EQ for your kick, attenuate that exact same frequency, with the same Q value as you used for that band on your snare, by between 2 and 3 dbs. Then, I find it also helps to boost a bit of the snare's high end or upper mids, and attenuate the kick at that same frequency a tiny bit as well. That, in conjunction with bussing all your drums together with a bit of EQ, compression, and perhaps a bit of distortion or saturation should help them fit together better.