touch - herobust & twofresh and kingpin - rl grime (salva remix) come to mind, both are at 130 i believe

Hey guys, just finished this one up yesterday and I'm pretty stoked on it, just wanna make sure I nail the mix/master before I officially publish. My problem with this track is that I can't get it as loud as my other tunes without killing the dynamics. I want to keep the quiet parts how they are but I feel like I could push the chorus/drop harder and make it louder/more leveled out. Any ideas how I could do that without bringing up the quiet parts too? Thats my main concern but if you have any other feedback on the mix I'd love to hear what you think

https://soundcloud.com/iamtesko/nghtmre-holdin-on-to-me-tesko-remix/s-S8DIr

Ekali sample pack has those spacious Rustie sounding kicks. Those + an analog clip saturator with the gain boosted will give you what you're looking for. I remember reading in an interview that Rustie uses analog clip a ton. Also, I find it much easier to just synthesize an 808 rather than use a sample. Its really as simple as a sine wave + a bit of distortion/bit crushing or a lowpassed square wave. I usually do that in massive then throw on a saturator on medium or hard clip and low pass again to taste. That'll get you a super fat sub that you'll be able to hear on any speakers.

One last thing, you can sidechain your 808s to your kick if you want but I've had more success just highpassing the kick at like 150-200hz and just laying it over the 808. Depends on what I'm going for, if its a slower track then I sometimes go for that ducked sidechained sound but if it's a trap banger that's usually what I do

A big thing for trap too is kick placement. Pay attention to which kicks fall on off beats and which fall on down beats. If you're used to writing 4 on the floor music it might be tricky but listen to a few of your favourite songs and bob your head. Get a feel for if the kick hits when you bob your head downwards (down beat) or upwards (off beat). Pretty straight forward but its the first thing I tell people to do when making break beat music. If this isnt second nature to you, you'll have a hard time with it.

As far as tempo I dont think there's really any correlation between it being 100 , 150, or 200. 140-150 in general is a pretty dancey tempo. I love 170-200 (85-100) ish personally

Updated: changed it up a ton, cleaned up the mix, gave it a quick master. It's like 95% there, last step is bounce everything to audio so I can add some subtle details for variation and she's done!

https://soundcloud.com/iamtesko/deep-down-low-almost-done/s-Irq8Z

Pretty happy with this one for what it is but something still feels off about it. Curious what you guys think

https://soundcloud.com/iamtesko/deep-down-low-v8-lotsa-shit/s-AA0IG

Would love to hear what you guys think!

can you post some examples of your own work? but yeah just synthesize them or find 808 patches and mess around with the glide. Also saturators are my secret weapon for 808s. Really beefs it up by bringing out those upper harmonics which helps make those pitch bends more audible.