There's a great intensity to this.  I really like the texture on the opening synth and the bass is huge and I can feel it rattling my head with my headphones on.

There's a great intensity to this. I really like the texture on the opening synth and the bass is huge and I can feel it rattling my head with my headphones on.

The bass line is bad ass.  Sounds huge.  Love that intro tone too.  Really chewy grit to it.  Sounds like FM.

Epic.

The bass line is bad ass. Sounds huge. Love that intro tone too. Really chewy grit to it. Sounds like FM. Epic.

Super creative stuff here, like you're inventing a new vocabulary. Love that grindy sputtery bass. And that gritty duet halfway through is so so cool.

Super creative stuff here, like you're inventing a new vocabulary. Love that grindy sputtery bass. And that gritty duet halfway through is so so cool.

Amazing stuff as always. I especially love the part where stuff layers on top of the bass. I keep wondering how you make things sound so big. Is that the mastering magic that you are doing?

Amazing stuff as always. I especially love the part where stuff layers on top of the bass. I keep wondering how you make things sound so big. Is that the mastering magic that you are doing?

Thanks! For these loud tracks I often use a combination of heavy side-chain compression, OTT and limiting in M8. The mastering is just icing that provides a bit of extra clarity and loudness. The heavy lifting is done on M8.

[quote=WahSp]Amazing stuff as always. I especially love the part where stuff layers on top of the bass. I keep wondering how you make things sound so big. Is that the mastering magic that you are doing?[/quote] Thanks! For these loud tracks I often use a combination of heavy side-chain compression, OTT and limiting in M8. The mastering is just icing that provides a bit of extra clarity and loudness. The heavy lifting is done on M8.

ZOMG this is hot i had to stick my head in a bucket of ice after i listened   O.O

ZOMG this is hot i had to stick my head in a bucket of ice after i listened O.O

Very satisfyingly crunchy. Excellent!

Very satisfyingly crunchy. Excellent!

Damn straight this is running hot! Love the breakdown, really builds things

Damn straight this is running hot! Love the breakdown, really builds things

This sounds massive, so many tasty sounds and transitions, that bass is an unruly beast ready to unleash havoc on the dance floor. 

This sounds massive, so many tasty sounds and transitions, that bass is an unruly beast ready to unleash havoc on the dance floor.

Hot damn, big tune! I gotta learn OTT compression and play with that. You got great results. Not sure if the M8 lets you adjust the knee but I feel like your knee and attack/release on the sidechain compression is just perfect. Huge pumping sound without it being fatiguing or having too quick of a pressure change on your ear.

Hot damn, big tune! I gotta learn OTT compression and play with that. You got great results. Not sure if the M8 lets you adjust the knee but I feel like your knee and attack/release on the sidechain compression is just perfect. Huge pumping sound without it being fatiguing or having too quick of a pressure change on your ear.

Thank you! Took a bit of time to get this one balanced nicely between the sidechain timing and OTT compression. OTT isn't that hard to learn, just turn it up until it feels good!

There is no audii sidechain compression on M8, it's only based on midi triggers. Parameters are relatively limited too, compared to a DAW. No knee, there's only amount, hold and release. I like that there's not too much to worry about, but enough space to really dial it in. This track also uses aux tables for reverb ducking, which can be more flexible but is also a lot more obtuse.

Thanks, I love geeking out about this stuff!

[quote=gify]Hot damn, big tune! I gotta learn OTT compression and play with that. You got great results. Not sure if the M8 lets you adjust the knee but I feel like your knee and attack/release on the sidechain compression is just perfect. Huge pumping sound without it being fatiguing or having too quick of a pressure change on your ear.[/quote] Thank you! Took a bit of time to get this one balanced nicely between the sidechain timing and OTT compression. OTT isn't that hard to learn, just turn it up until it feels good! There is no audii sidechain compression on M8, it's only based on midi triggers. Parameters are relatively limited too, compared to a DAW. No knee, there's only amount, hold and release. I like that there's not too much to worry about, but enough space to really dial it in. This track also uses aux tables for reverb ducking, which can be more flexible but is also a lot more obtuse. Thanks, I love geeking out about this stuff!

A song for apocalyptic dancers, trying to keep the party going as the dying sun melts their soundsystem. The A section is the darkest, with a "doomed" or "hunted" vibe driven by a geiger-crunchy pair of saws and ratchet-whips of the bass. The saws are one of my favorite bits of sound design here, alive in their drifting sputters and with unique turns on the fourth and eight notes in the loop. Glass hat also sounds great and give me the feeling of making doing with percussion elements found in the rubble.

In the B-section, the crowd pushes the dire mood into the background. A riser bass riff bubble up out of the glitches. Everyone joins in, one weaving between the notes on main hats, one in an octave unison, many in the football-cheer noise riser.

In the breakdown, the reality outside floods back in. "No really, don't you hear how garbled the saws are? The hats scattered to the wind? The slow march of the kick-snare? What are we doing when it's so bad out there?"

We're fucking *dancing*. A small kiss-off to the apocalypse at 1:51, then it's back to groove, hard as we can go, rising and rising for one more day.

(Thank you for reading my fanfic. Banger song)

A song for apocalyptic dancers, trying to keep the party going as the dying sun melts their soundsystem. The A section is the darkest, with a "doomed" or "hunted" vibe driven by a geiger-crunchy pair of saws and ratchet-whips of the bass. The saws are one of my favorite bits of sound design here, alive in their drifting sputters and with unique turns on the fourth and eight notes in the loop. Glass hat also sounds great and give me the feeling of making doing with percussion elements found in the rubble. In the B-section, the crowd pushes the dire mood into the background. A riser bass riff bubble up out of the glitches. Everyone joins in, one weaving between the notes on main hats, one in an octave unison, many in the football-cheer noise riser. In the breakdown, the reality outside floods back in. "No really, don't you hear how garbled the saws are? The hats scattered to the wind? The slow march of the kick-snare? What are we doing when it's so bad out there?" We're fucking *dancing*. A small kiss-off to the apocalypse at 1:51, then it's back to groove, hard as we can go, rising and rising for one more day. (Thank you for reading my fanfic. Banger song)

Oh man.. this has to be the best comment I've ever received on my music haha. Your story has now completely replaced my headcanon for this track! It fits absolutely perfect.
Thank you so much

[quote=sleepside] [/quote] Oh man.. this has to be the best comment I've ever received on my music haha. Your story has now completely replaced my headcanon for this track! It fits absolutely perfect. Thank you so much <3

All the instrument choices are just fucking awesome. Great stuff.

All the instrument choices are just fucking awesome. Great stuff.

+1 this was truly great. Sounds so deep and menacing. Love the bitcrushed goodness on that pad, and how elements come and go in the track so it keeps on breathing / evolving

Great stuff!

[quote=BarristerPlong]All the instrument choices are just fucking awesome. Great stuff.[/quote] +1 this was truly great. Sounds so deep and menacing. Love the bitcrushed goodness on that pad, and how elements come and go in the track so it keeps on breathing / evolving Great stuff!

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