Hi everyone! thanks so much for sharing the environments... the randomizer 2 is brillant respect

yeah Rounik I already checked it and it amazed me... i still have to connect the cables in my head' s environment tough..))) stai bene anche tu! keep in touch!

Hi OlavB (this name sounds familiar...) did you check OBasoski' s sound design tutorial here on macprovideo.com? That' s simply godsend. I' ve always loved Basoski' s music, and after I ' ve seen he is helping out other people and sharing his knowledges I respect him so much not only musically, but from a human point of view as well. anyway - come on jabz! tell us what kind of sound you are actually after!!! great comunity, great tutorials, great trainers. I am so glad i found this place)

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EFNXcckWz8[/url] well, while we wait for Jabz I would like someone to help me recreate these deep stabs that we can hear on this soul minority' s remix. The stab I am talkin about starts at min 2.22 in this youtube link. Tough at first glance they sound really standard - saws - the way they are mixed makes them sound amazaing (especially if you hear it on a nice file instead of youtube). They are BIG, WIDE, but at the same time not to heavy and they dont "eat" all the other elements in the track. There is a really sweet reverb, and the adsr settings make sound the stab a bit percussive; but again, not too much.... I would really appreciate if someone could help me on this, especially mixing-wise. tks!

hi everyone! first of all let me say thanks once again to Steve H for sharing their knowledges. I sincerely respect you all for sharing the outpouring of years and years of work on music. and... Steve I love your voice man! It' s meditative - i am serious. anway.. let' s get to the topic today i was fooling around on the net and on focusrite website I ' ve read this: MULTI-MODES ENABLE CREATIVE GATING TECHNIQUES The Gate can operate as a stereo gate and, in different dual mono modes, one signal can be used to trigger the gate of another; ideal for tightening up a bass line, for example. ... well - by reading this i understood i am a totally ignorant about Gating and its full potential... Does anyone can tell me more about this? glad to be here!

yes it does) I usually sidechain with compressors , i definetely gotta experiment with gates tks Rou

so you should have like a rhytmic noise right? ill try that later today tks m8!

hi everybody! During the last week I been trying to write some tech house beats, a bit tribalish - to give you a reference let' s say I been inspired mainly by Stefano Noferini, or loads of tracks that are lately coming out with Toolrom Rec. (i d love to attach some files here, but looks like is not possible) anyway I been encountering some major issues and i would like to mention them and see if someone can show me the right direction. First of all: the bass. I have been using a really simple patch i been doing with es2. Sine wave -1 oct and a bit of saw wave layered. Legato mode, very lil glide, and velocity to volume. Analog wheel all the way up. Well... it does not sounds bad but still does not sound so rich and deep as "professional" tracks I hear - and it gets very muddy when playing with the kick. Actually, I am always having problem mixing deep basses with the kick - I been experimenting a lot with eq (e.g. cut the low end of the kick and unboosting the bass around 100Hz to leave some space for the attack of the kick) but still does not sound good. second: percussions. In real world tech tribal, the percussions I hear are ... big and strong. They really fill the spectrum. My percussions sound like a frog's fart, if you allow me this metaphore. I am trying to realize why - if it is just a compression issue - or maybe my samples are not good. (I am using the battery kit - i do have some vengeance samples but they sound really dirty to me) I also been trying using drum machine percussions(nepheton in this case) but they sound too much electronic for me for a track that I would like to sound more acoustic. well - i could go on for ages but this looks long enough and you probably already hate me - so ill stop here. Hope i been clear tks!

Hi Hamish H thanks very much for your help!! actually i havent heard somebody to love yet) anyway noferini was just a reference. I just downloaded "Carachillo" by Kaiserdisco, and thats another perfect example of bass kick combination that i d like to achieve about kick and bass - i also had the feeling that he cuts low end and leaves it to the kick and i also have the feeling he uses two bassess. Problem with using more than one bass for me, is the fact that it ends up sounding really mud. I am probably not so good at frequency carving yet. The thing about sidechaing is that when I apply it I really get a pumping sound that i am not sure i want. I would like to keep the bass smooth - maybe i do apply to much ratio when i sidechain and it ends up sounding like one of those "sound like deadmau5" tutorials on youtube))) But i know you are right - i know there is sidechain and i still gotta practice to make it sound organic and smooth - wich is what i d like to achieve [i]or if you want to think laterally you could EQ and/or turn down the volume of everything else except the percussion - make the percussion the lead instruments of the track! [/i] yes yes yes - u re totally right.But i gotta get some well recorded loops to do that. should I take a microphone and go recording some indigens in Chile or Colombia))???

btw i was wondering what style of music you re in Hamish? just curious ;)