the quality-- consistent quality-- of fanu's stuff is just shocking. Had he only done "defunct drums depression decade," that'd be a enough to label him a legend. Of course, the fact that *I like it makes me totally unsurprised that it's not commercially successful ;) it's as much art musi...

the delay sounds great.

almost grabbed one a few years ago but they were way too expensive back then. Used, seems like a great deal. the hipass filter is especially nice.

if you're using audio units, you can't beat "drive" and "density" from airwindows. FREE. and brilliant. decapitator from soundtoys Saturn ( think it's saturn?) from Fab Filter that harmonic EQ from voxengo. also free. 1176 set to no compression, or pultec EQ not doing anything......

successful thread full of songs mixed to sound good on mobile phones... is successful.

starting point: 1176 on busses SSL on master both 4:1, doing very little (2-3 db at most, less for the SSL) i keep a couple of aux's open w/ 1176's on them in case thing need to vibe more together before the master, ie; drums, perc, and bass go to one 1176, vox, synths, guitars go to another. those ...

I can't imagine mixing w/o reference material.

Typically, aside from volume, I hear no difference when I A/B with a compressor. first, match the gain so that you can actually hear what's going on; if one version is twice as loud as the other, it's gonna sound better. compression is my #1 tool for bringing things forward, or pushing things back,...

This is pretty much spot on. I wasn't writing in favor of farting around endlessly (though sometimes honestly I do like to just fart around and not really get anything done). Its taken almost all the not so many years I've been at this to figure out working fast and committing to ideas quickly is p...

sigh.... here's what matters: work fast. FAST. your ideas deserve that level of commitment. Set yourself a 3 hour limit to write, program, and get a rough mix of a tune done. and I mean like 90% DONE. so that when you come back to it, all you have to work on is some transitions, mixing, tweaks, mayb...

I owned an mpc1k for a few years and did a lot of work with it. A couple of entirely in-the-MPC songs and remixes, and a ton of programmed patterns for other songs, which i'd then dump (stem by stem), into logic. Was definitely fun for creating patterns. not much fun for creating songs. miserable fo...

^ no joke. Maserati and his crew have mixed a few projects i've been involved in; you send them what you think is a banging rough mix, better than other mixes out there, pat yourself on the back, and...

your shit comes back with this layer of magic on it. Really really incredible.

yeah neither of those mixes totally blow me away TBH, but #2 has some nice stuff going on. "expensive" sounding mixes in a nutshell? --a dynamic, performed "mix." Mix is a verb. --great performances from the musicians or vocalist (if there is a vocalist) --proper amount of dynami...

^ those dynaudios are a BLAST to work on. yes big, yes loud, but still total quality.

ns10's w/ a hafler 250watt amp here. my fun-for-loud bx8's are dead, so i'm officially interested in the 8" equators. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Undrig wrote:Getting huge props from Oris Jay after sending him some tunes would definitely be the highlight of my life. For real I can die happy after this happened.

no doubt, that tune is hot. Got something forthcoming on Moldy's label?

well done!

novation makes good controllers but automap is awful.

Adam F series monitors agreed, recently did some mobile sessions on some small Adams-- they've really stepped up their game in the lower-end. Extremely easy to work on, i could hear what was going on thru the spectrum, and didn't feel like i'd had my face kicked in after 8 hours-- can't say that ab...

Audio if things are in midi form-- usually layers from stylus, etc-- they get bounced down to audio ASAP. May I ask why? couple of things-- commitment to the song, first and foremost. Get the part, get it as grooving as possible, move on. for programmed drums (rather than recorded live), i'd rather...

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if things are in midi form-- usually layers from stylus, etc-- they get bounced down to audio ASAP.

Couple of thoughts: -- music being "work" ain't a bad thing at all- madEP, myself, and at least few others from dsf:p make a loving making music full-time. I count myself among the lucky ones to be able to do so. -- making dance music that is an expression of yourself is, in most cases, a ...