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Computer Music, Fri 29 May 2009, 2:06 pm UTC

Step 8: Our bass part is complete, so now it's time to come up with a way of introducing its massiveness into our tune. We use a high-pass filter gradually over eight bars. You can hear that we keep the sub part out of the way initially – this, coupled with the little tweak to the filter at the end of the intro section, means that the bass really 'drops' when required.
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