That sounds awful but clipping can give you a bit of extra headroom with no impact on the sound. Just trim off some of the excess transient, almost surgical

Essentially your question here is "is it alright if different instruments play different notes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1mUD1ouvHc

I'm pretty sure that's the THINK break on there for the highs/tamb - note the pitched up vocal thing. But how would I turn my bog standard version of the break into that?

Turn the fucking kick down?

Thanks for all the help, the main problem I was having was marking the frets to the keyboard... such as a G# on the 12th fret and then trying to find that exact same note on my keyboard to play the same melody....But i have it sorted now...nice one peeps!!! :W: I think your problem is that there is...

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Best go back and watch that video I posted then. It's integral to EDM history. That and "Funky Drummer." Mawwwwww... homework.

of course i've used the amen break you gullible trollop

So don't bother mixing and rape everything with a limiter at every possible stage?

narcissus wrote:dude, if you goin the sampling route, i would def pull out pantera, their drummer was/is a beast and heavy as fuck.. they're kicks usually sound like shit but you will get some brutal snares and crashes

Pantera's kick is legendary, get out of here

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Cool. I would love to see how you made some of those midbasses on My Demons, especially Ska. Also some of your guitar stuff would be interesting!

Thanks

^ timestretch please

ololololo $8000 cable

shit samples, shit patches

lol paying for software

never announced on the fucking website....

Offbeat guitar/organ SKANK

Your mixes could be sounding empty because... they are fairly empty...? A lot of your sounds are basically raw 808 samples. Not a problem but they can sound a little hollow by themselves. Learn about layering your drums. An example - take your clap, eq some low end out, then add in a snare with a li...

This stuff is stupidly annoying and never makes sense. This stuff will only make sense to you when you want it to make sense to you, when you make a real effort to understand and apply it. If you're only half interested and don't make the effort then like all things you're not going to get the resu...