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How to Formant Shift a Techno Kick With Little AlterBoy

I just found a really cool trick to add to your techno kicks.

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01

Formant shift the whole kick

On my final kick I just add Little AlterBoy and formant shift the whole kick down. It already sounds cool, but it opened the stereo image.

Little AlterBoy on a hard techno kick: the formant shifted down to -5.9 with the pitch left at 0.0, in Transpose mode
Formant down to -5.9, pitch left at 0.0.
02

A side EQ and a wave shaper

So I get another EQ. Pro-Q works fine. Make it something like a brick wall, put the stereo placement on side and make sure the sub is mono.

To get a little bit more power back in the kick I add Fruity WaveShaper and open that up. Then finish with the soft clipper and inflator trick.

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