Sweet thanks man I'll try that next. I just started using Izotope's Ozone suite and their multiband compressor's the shit! I'll play around with stereo imaging and reverb and try to get those hats nice and smooth.

Awesome. Thanks everyone for providing some feedback! I'm going to mess with the transients and see what I can come up with. I've tried using post-processing things like saturation a little bit but haven't really committed to this as I think it can easily distort it too much (or at least for the sam...

Why are you using a compressor and limiter? why wouldn't I use a compressor and limiter? the compressor makes the samples blend a little more naturally after u do the fine tuning and the limiter makes it more punchy and stand out more. I have the layered tracks grouped in ableton and I throw the co...

Hey whatsup guys :) I recently invested in a new pair of headphones (audio tech ATH-M50's) :D and I've started experimenting with layering some samples. I wanted to make a real punchy DnB track eventually but I don't have much experience with the genre. I've EQ'd a deeper kick drum by boosting aroun...

So one thing I've been trying to emulate is this sound from vexare's 'the silent majority' For the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiNzRpjNMko Once you get past the intro you can hear that huge house-y chord synth open up. Once its opened, that's kind of the sound I'm aiming for. It sounds lik...

Hello everyone. This is my first post here and I'm very excited to join the community and learn some new things. As part of my first thread, I would like to discuss certain techniques and ways to make a really large, wide sounding chords used in a large verities of music. Right now I have been exper...