oh I mean that it's like -4db on ableton's spectrum, not the peak meter. my kick varies track by track; sometimes the sub of my kick is the same level as my sub bass (not at the same time of course), while other times it's -12db and not as low(madeon-ish kicks)

thanks so much yall omg. btw just joined the slack!

in!!

massive, fm8, kontakt, battery(i just use its drum samples), absynth, and guitar rig are all things i use everyday from komplete, which would've been super expensive if i just bought them separately. i'm not gonna lie, it was overwhelming when i first got it(i'd only been producing for about a year), but personally, the joy and inspiration that comes from getting new software/equipment is incomparable, so i was in a creative overdrive for a solid few months after getting it.

I don't know about feed me, but I know madeon loves making snares, so I'm pretty certain what I said was along the lines of what he was talking about. plus he was talking about it recently on twitter and mentioned it. not to discredit what you guys said, but try what I mentioned!

3 years in and I'm actually really confident and happy with my production skills,  but arrangement and composition is a pitfall for me. I've spent a majority of my time honing production techniques, and I think that makes it way easier to get my ideas down, but I wish I would've spent a lot more time working on composition

that article is super interesting. it's kind of bittersweet that the loudness war is finally coming to an end bc I've just recently been able to get my stuff as loud, if not louder than a lot of big releases with minimal compression/limiting haha