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Production Trend: Hardtrance Reverberated Bass Drum
Using reverb on the bass drum is usually a big 'no' in music production, but in the early to mid-90s, some hardtrance producers made it a trademark feature to let the early reflections from a reverberated bass drum be delayed until they hit the off-beat.
In the years before this trend, reverb processing was limited and expensive, so triple-A studios that owned a Lexicon PCM-70 had to use it just on the tracks that really needed reverb effects, like vocals. On other tracks, cheaper and more effecient effects like stereo ping-pong delay was used. However, in the early 90s reverb saw its way into cheaper and more mainstream effects units and workstations, which allowed electronic dance music producers to get a piece of reverb kit as well.
I'm pretty sure the first artist to use the reverberated bass drum effect in this way was either Arpeggiators or CJ Bolland. Thus, the hardtrance genre was established.
