Really like the sound design and arrangement!

I went to Icon Collective right as Jauz was starting to blow up and I saw the dude producing on apple headphones all the time, and I know for a fact he did most of his mixing down on either apple headphones or his laptop speakers. Most of the people that are going to be listening to your music are either going to be listening to it on apple headphones or their laptop speakers anyways. Think about it. If your shit is bangin through laptop speakers and apple headphones, chances are it is going to sound pretty good on monitors. Just listen to your mix on as many different speakers as possible. I always listen to my music on my rokits, my laptop speakers, my apple headphones, AND my car stereo system. If it sounds good on all of them, that's when I know I'm set. trust me you don't need fancy studio monitors to get a clean mix down. When it comes to your low end, that's when a nice set of speakers come in handy, but if your car has a sub woofer and you know it pretty well you can definitely get by on just listening to your low end in your car

I mean in my opinion, you can spend a lot of time trying to make that EXACT sound and not be able to do it and just be frustrated, or you can dissect it to the point where you can do something super similar, just maybe not exact.

Honestly it sounds like a sample that just has a ton of reverb on it, sidechained to a ghost trigger with maybe a white noise layer thrown in there. Could just be a really bright reverb too with no white noise. If you were to get a saw wave, add an amp,  and just various types of distortion, and then just play around with some higher octaves, I'm sure you could sample it, make a kind of one shot with it, then add a ton of reverb to it and get a similar sound. Or just find a cool sample.

Sounds like he just found and or made a cool sample, threw some reverb on it, side chained it, and then called it a day. Hope that helps a little bit! maybe someone else on here will know exactly what that sound was!

So I know there are a lot of people who swear by the process of segmenting their music making process into certain stages, i.e. sound designing, writing, arranging, mixing, etc., because to them it is a more efficient way of doing things.

For example, if you are writing music and trying to come up with a new song idea, it wouldn't be an efficient use of your time to try and get the mix sounding super tight as you're writing it because it will mess with your flow/ flow state. That I totally understand.

One of the things I tend to do though is after I have a solid idea down, and I start arranging it, my arranging process ends up kind of getting merged with my mixing process and I seem to do both of those at the same time. Does anybody do the same thing? I feel like throughout the whole writing process, I am intermittently mixing my track and kind of tightening it up as I go along. Not quite sure if it is Resistance in disguise and is actually slowing down my music making process, or if it is just part of my writing style and is kind of who I am as a producer. Could be all of the above!

Let me know if you guys go through something similar to this. Cheers!