anyone know where you can get some cheap-ish ear-plugs that you can wear at uber-loud raves that don't make you look like an utter chief?

for me a great producer makes me wonder how they managed to get a particular sound...hearing a bate sample from a sample pack in a tune just makes me cringe. same if you hear a synth preset or somethin...

what is the track at 41:00? its rowwwwwwwwwwwwwdy

Well, 1st thank you for offering this. You've been so helpful to me and most probably everybody else here so far.

1st thing that comes to my mind is BASS PROCESSING :twisted:
If memory serves you're a z3ta user too. So, I'd like to know where you stop working on z3ta to go with Kontakt: do you ...

Kick drums and Basslines often don't use it reverb, but snares and hats, percussion and little incidental sounds usually do. It sits them back in the mix a little and fills the space around mix.

if you have a deep bassline which you wanna have reverb on, how would you go about doin that (e.g. JSL ...

Now you have this information for both the kick and the bass, so you can use your EQ to make room for both of them. It's not likely that both will have the same fundamental, so EQ the bass with a reasonably narrow EQ curve about negative 5 to 10 dbs deep at the kick's fundamental, and perhaps at ...

thanks for the explanation of sidechaining....that all makes sense...now how dya do it?

ahoy there. got quite a few questions about compressing and distorting basslines and kick drums.

first off, most of my basslines involve distortion, so i usually have one bass synth all distorted and another playing the same part with clean sine waves which i don't distort, so as not to ruin those ...