I also took a look at at this and found some interesting stuff.

What I found interesting was their sidechaining... At this point in the bass music loudness war, I was under the impression basically everyone is using some form of volume automation sidechain that knocks the volume of more or less the entire mix to zero (Mids+Sub at least)

In this track, only the subbass was getting dropped to zero, in fact, the heavy midrange synths were only being knocked down ~50%, the keys/leads a bit more, and just slightly on the percussion and background stuff. Maybe this was done just because of the bass house signature groove?

It just seems like, how are you going to achieve such a loud mix when you've got the loudest thing in your mix, the kick, hitting right on top of another element that is right up there in gain, the mids, and not have the mids ducked all the way down.

Either way, saved all those LFOtool settings for when I wanna try my hand at a bass house tune

And even today, watching the Funtcase in the studio, he talks about how he doesn't sidechain very heavily since it sounds unnatural (which, is sort of rich considering how unnatural the sort of music is to begin with).

The mids don't take up nearly as much headroom as the sub and kick so you don't have to sidechain them 100% in order to get a loud mix m8

Quote from: Miles Dominic on May 11, 2016, 08:19:03 am

It depends on how much older you are. If you start with producing at like 10, i can imagine it'd be difficult to properly grasp concepts like compression, EQ'ing and distortion. I myself started when I was 18 and the fact that I was in Uni made it super easy for me to grasp all these concepts. However, I think that if I was lets say 28 when I started, it would've been more difficult for me to work on my creativity. The human brain is more difficult to mold after like 25 years of age, so learning anything will be more of a challenge.

Looks like I got 7 more years to build up those mixing/arranging skills before it's too late and I'm doomed to a life of broken dreams. 

Ahah. Put in enough effort and everything is possible. My songs from last year were pretty shit.1 year made a big difference

It depends on how much older you are. If you start with producing at like 10, i can imagine it'd be difficult to properly grasp concepts like compression, EQ'ing and distortion. I myself started when I was 18 and the fact that I was in Uni made it super easy for me to grasp all these concepts. However, I think that if I was lets say 28 when I started, it would've been more difficult for me to work on my creativity. The human brain is more difficult to mold after like 25 years of age, so learning anything will be more of a challenge.

Sounds great! Reminds me of Centre of the Universe (Blinders Remix) a little.

thanks man glad you like it haha.

Makes sense. I can see how a signal recorded past -0.0db would be impossible to bring down if it were recorded like a vocal or a guitar.

Can't fix a clipped signal. I just wanted some clarification on the issues. I wasn't aware that some daws don't offer the option to bring all the faders down at once.

Guess I gotta love logic even more for that. <3

You can also just put a gain plugin on the output and turn it down. Easier than turning down all the faders

do you have any examples? Chance is big that you haven't layered the saws properly

K :-)  thanks for ur reply. Ive Been doing the analysing thing for quite a while now. I just thought that maybe there is an easy "concept" or logic to narrow it down. Its quite a complicated thing, like an equation with many variables.u can solve It but It takes time :-)
U c there is so much to know about Chords but in the end i feel like analysing has limits and in the end u just have to Rock the goddamn keyboard. True?

You don't have to know any instruments for that tbh. Just practice a lot Also, if you want to connect 2 chord progressions its all about how you want it to sound and then also how you transition from one into another. It should be at a point where it sounds natural and ofcourse proper automation of filters can help make the transition sound more natural.