Bass Swap
Swapping the bass from track A to track B at the same moment.
Detailed explanation
A bass swap is the controlled exchange of the bass signal from track A to track B during a transition. The LOW EQ of track A goes to kill while the LOW EQ of track B goes back to neutral — both hands at once, on beat 1 of a phrase. It prevents double bass (two kicks at the same time) and sounds like a musical event.
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In practice
Two basslines at once never sound good — they add up and the sound turns to mud. In a bass swap you therefore pull the bass out of track A and bring the bass of track B up in the same movement, ideally on the first beat of a phrase. The rest of the tracks keep playing over each other, but in the low end there is only ever one boss. Once you have done it a few times you hear immediately when another DJ does not.
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