stopping beats from phasing?
Is there any way to stop your bass kick from phasing out when you are playing two tracks together?
errrr… Use your EQ?
…you mean the track is drifting?. I guess sync the tempo better?. Tighten the beat grid?. If it drifts on its own, try warping it to lock it into a set tempo.
general rule of thumb in my book, never have 2 kick tracks running at full blast at the same time ever. one should always be dominant, the other eqed out. then you can switch.
yeah thats what I was getting at. When I have two tracks with similar kicks playing together they phase each other out and you get almost no bass punch on the kick, but as you said I guess I’ve just got to get a bit more reckless with the EQ.
Cheers!
or less reckless, depending on how you look at it… 
reckless at times could also mean “creative”… there was a good article on the homepage about creating tension… this site is your friend!
kicks/hats/snares, if they’re close to the same freq. as each other they will phase each other out, or just sound plain weird.
you don’t need two of the same sounds going over each other anyway, think of the mix as one long song: you wouldn’t put two identical kicks right under each other in a song would you?
it’s pretty common to layer multiple kicks 
yeah, after eqing each one carefully to avoid phrase issues, especially in the low end
yeah
those round twisty things on the mixer may help.
To produce a sound, a speaker cone has to push and pull the air to create the right vibrations. If the ‘push’ on one track, matches the ‘pull’ on another, you’ll end up with it getting cancelled out to some degree.
This technique can also be used to create acapella’s from instrumental and vocal tracks by inverting the sound on the instrumental track.
But I digress..
oh yeah btw, are their any relatively cheap programs for mac that can invert a waveform in order to get the acapellas mentioned by djmoonie?