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Kick/snare are both quite quiet and thin sounding, could maybe benefit from another look at the mixdown to give them a bit more presence.

What would you do to make the kick and snare less thin? Do you think the kick needs more higher end? I have it boosted at the low end now with a saturator afterwords. Making kicks powerful is an aspect I've always struggled with.

It's as much about the kick as it is the elements around the kick.

eldoogle wrote:What would you do to make the kick and snare less thin? Do you think the kick needs more higher end? I have it boosted at the low end now with a saturator afterwords. Making kicks powerful is an aspect I've always struggled with.

I think the kick could benifit from Eqing down and layered with another Kick (perhaps one with a high pass filter) to give it space
A technique I use often is giving my synths a couple of milleseconds attack to punch through the mix
It works in the same way as compression side chaining
Like the track though

wub wrote:It's as much about the kick as it is the elements around the kick.

Does this mean that I need to notch a big space out of other synths to show off the kick, maybe pull down all the tracks but the kick and snare? Or do my synths take up too much of the frequency spectrum?

eldoogle wrote:What would you do to make the kick and snare less thin? Do you think the kick needs more higher end? I have it boosted at the low end now with a saturator afterwords. Making kicks powerful is an aspect I've always struggled with.

Slight Reverb on the snare