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Let me know what you think!

Bump.

Opening drums are very weak, like can hardly hear them. The sidechaining is a bit too aggressive as well, maybe shorten the release on it so it's not quite so sucky. Reverb on the snare is a bit too high, and with the snare itself lacking power it's all the more noticeable.

Rest of the elements are also very quite, particularly the bass which you can hardly make out.

wub wrote:Opening drums are very weak, like can hardly hear them. The sidechaining is a bit too aggressive as well, maybe shorten the release on it so it's not quite so sucky. Reverb on the snare is a bit too high, and with the snare itself lacking power it's all the more noticeable.

Rest of the elements are also very quite, particularly the bass which you can hardly make out.

The compression was completely intentional, but yeah perhaps a little too much! The original track is ambient music and I was trying to achieve something in those lines - a 'spacey' sound - hence the abusive use of reverb. Maybe it didn't work out too well. In hindsight, I think the middle-freq drone might be just a tad too loud, no? Is it ear-splitting? The bass was recorded on a bass guitar and I usually record drone-doom metal with it, I'm still trying to master adapting it into electronic music.
Thanks so much for the constructive thoughts on mixing

This is one of my first cracks at dubstep so I'd like to know what peeps think about the song itself, drum patterns, use of samples etc..