Im trying to make the same ratio between kick and bassline as in erick prydez - call on me...
Any sugestions on what kind of comp to use and how to set it.
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KICK & BASS under compressor
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- KVRist
- 317 posts since 20 Feb, 2005
this can be done to some extent by ducking the bass using a side-chain compressor. to increase the effect but still retain some of the bass transients do what eric sometimes does:
1. bounce your bassline to a mono audiotrack.
2. slice your bassloop with one cut on the beat and one just where the energy of the bd disappears. do this for every 4 measures in the bar.
3. duplicate the basstrack.
4. put a high-pass eq on on of the tracks.
5. mute bass audio segments so that
a) the high-passed track plays when the bd hits but quickly fades out.
b) the normal bass track is silent when the bd hits but quickly fades in.
play with the timing of the fades and eq cutoff to find the thresholds that fit your bass and bd track.
1. bounce your bassline to a mono audiotrack.
2. slice your bassloop with one cut on the beat and one just where the energy of the bd disappears. do this for every 4 measures in the bar.
3. duplicate the basstrack.
4. put a high-pass eq on on of the tracks.
5. mute bass audio segments so that
a) the high-passed track plays when the bd hits but quickly fades out.
b) the normal bass track is silent when the bd hits but quickly fades in.
play with the timing of the fades and eq cutoff to find the thresholds that fit your bass and bd track.
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- KVRAF
- 4738 posts since 20 Feb, 2004 from Gothenburg, Sweden
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- KVRist
- 263 posts since 31 Jan, 2005 from perth, australia
yeah i sometimes do what i call the 'decoy bassdrum' - a short n sharp kick that you don't hear, but i use it as the sidechain trigger
i dont use the actual kick, cos my kicks are hard and all f**ked up and have virtually 0db dynamic range
i dont use the actual kick, cos my kicks are hard and all f**ked up and have virtually 0db dynamic range
blasphemy is a victimless crime
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- KVRer
- 7 posts since 5 Apr, 2005
A lot of the sound of Prydz, Steve Angelo Dave armstrong and not forgetting the instigators of this over-compressed sound - Daft Punk are IMHO down to logic's built in compressor... if in doubt try this: Bus everything apart from the drums off to a sub-group... stick a compressor across that group and side chain the compressor with your kick (you can't put the drums in there or you'll lose the top end every beat) then compress to hell...also comp the final mix... add some bit reduction somewhere and the sound is instant 'discovery'