medium room techno

[willemb]

Something I'm working on, I think its pretty much finished now. Its 125 bpm techno with a big kick and slightly more driving than some of my other recent tracks. Its got a big kick, but too much stuff going on to be totally big room.

Last night it was just another project which I was sort of stuck with, it had some cool aspects, but the arrangement wasn't really going anywhere, and I didn't know what to add or take away. My effects chains were rather full and heavy as well, so I bounced out all the tracks and imported them all as audio to a new project. I then re-leveled and eq'd it all, and started chopping the audio to adjust the arrangement a bit, and now I feel like its become quite a good and exciting track!

One thing I am sort of struggling with a little bit is the kick vs the rest of the track. I might end up trying to sidechain everything to make the kick more the centre of attention than it already is.

https://soundcloud.com/willemb/willem-b ... st/s-3zdMw

[mattie]

Hello Willemb,solid work.The sound that is introduced @ .35 runs a bit too high in volume for me over the arrangement,also some modulation to make it shift around more may be worth experimenting with.May or may be useful to you.

[mattie]

May or may not be useful to you, I meant to type

[willemb]

Thanks mattie, I see what you mean, I was trying lots of different volumes for this channel and you might well be right. However in the end I just pushed the volume up, because I kind of like it when its high, harsh and loud, the torture of it makes me gurn and pull mean faces when I'm sober.

[Barskiniov]

I like it, but I think your sidechain-idea might be good to give the kick even more power. A thing which I do often, is to sidechain everything by the kickdrum (with only a tiny amount of gr) with a ssl comp emu on the masterbus. For me it´s the best comp for this tasks...but listening to your stuff, I think you will find a way to put your Kick in the foreground peace

[willemb]

Thanks Barskiniov... but SSL Comp Emu? Isn't that LOADS O MONEY?

[Barskiniov]

mmmh you use logic right? because I think in ableton 9 they have the "Glue" comp integrated which models an ssl com I think. But you can buy it for 77 Euros for any DAW...at the moment I demo the native instruments ssl comp which you can buy for 100 and I really like it...You can test the comp for 30 mins each time, so actually you can see if it suits you on the masterbus...peace

[mint clad]

Dude I'm not here to offer criticism or anything, I'm just here to say that this track is fucking sick keep on jamming dawg

[willemb]

Thanks mint clad

Barskiniov - I've adjusted the kick / mix a bit, and included it on an EP i just put on my bandcamp:

http://www.subsekt.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5083