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Step 1: In this tutorial, Tommy Dash of production duo Ctrl-Z is going to show you how they remixed The Freestylers’ classic Ruffneck (listen to it on the Ctrl-Z MySpace page). The first element of the track to be laid down is the kick drum. Tommy uses a spectral analyser plug-in to check that the sample is peaking at the right frequency. MultiMeter shows that it is loudest between 60 and 100Hz, which, as Tommy eloquently puts it, is “the premier league of kick drum frequencies”.