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smacca
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man well done on the album.
its easily the most interesting production ive heard in a long time.
pressing play and hearing that first track kinda reminded me of hearing loveless for the first time
so wtfs going on in that first track?
how did you create that distortion and get it to move the way it does?
whats going on with the compression?
and considering the forum.... synths, samplers or drum machines on the album?
cheers
thanks..the first track deals with a lot of negative space via sidechaining. A lot of it is a drum machine being sent to some sort of distortion pre fader, and then muting the dry of the drum machine. I do this a lot. Sometimes the sound of an organic or even sampled drums really kick me out of it.
I wanted the first track to kind of feel like you're falling, or like something you would find after the end of the world..and you dug it out of the ground.
As far as compression, I used a few different hardware compressors in mix via summing mixer. I believe I used that Black Box HG2 as well, as I was trying it out that month. I use compression a lot, always wary of the timing. If it feels good, then I roll with it. I rarely even look at the GR meters.