Personally, I almost never compress bass or kick, but you'll probably get differing opinions on that. Using compression during mastering should not preclude you from using it on individual tracks. Take a snare track for example... Compression during mastering will do nothing to get that nice attack ...

35, son.

If you are going to do hardware, then buy something that can not be done digitally...like analogue.

I realize you may not be using Live, but this http://www.ableton-live-fans.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34 is a good tutorial anyway. You can pretty much apply the technique outlined in that thread to just about any host. Took me a while to find a side-chain capable compressor I liked using, so you ma...

Search for 'sidechain compression'...you'll be glad you did.

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Ahhhh, yes..thanks so much.

Just got a Little Phatty (woo-hoo, btw), and I expected the legendary MOOG 24db 4-pole LP filter to be the one I would use, but find that the 1-pole seems to cut cleaner through the sound. My analogue 101 is escaping me right now, and google isn't any help. Anyone able to post a primer on poles? Ple...

Something I've been doing of late is taking a nice break, slicing it up in audio, then muting everything but the little fills leading into the main hits. Add a little delay, high pass a bit and then you have a nice little sprinkled layer of fills that sound natural and help yer meaty hits to move a...

I've yet to fine 1 reverb plugin that works for every need. I say try several.

Record them live vs programming them step time. Nice...I've been doing that a lot recently. Been easier since I moved to a PC w/ a controller, as apposed to a laptop w/o. Here's some general reading for you... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncopation http://en.wi...

I'm all over it.

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Might want to check out http://faderfox.de/ ...they make controllers specifically for Live.

Yep, here you go..

http://www.pushre.com/EI2XT.pdf

fliPPo wrote:maybe fucking around with the mouse and keyboard is slowing you down?

Good point. Much more 'organinc' way of writing to be able to flow with the knobs, as apposed to point>click.

What sequencer are you using? I found that Ableton helps me through that.

ozols man wrote:i want to have "better" speakers with better bass response

Just add a sub.

You should try Drumatic 3....the 808 kick is incredible, and it's free.

http://www.e-phonic.com/plugins/