i keep everything simple because i hate installing and managing vst's and licenses, here are my basic chains for when i do french touch or ed banger style house

for bass i use kontakt 5 rickenbacker bass with a redux downsampled to 16 bit, ableton EQ8, probably a few auto filters, then i'll squash with a -20 threshold, 10.0 ratio with the default compressor, then sidechain to kick and maybe even send a few db of the signal to the drum compression bus.

drum rack is usually a 909 kick downsampled to 12 bit with redux, a touch of dirt with ableton saturator, eq8 with a few cuts, ableton compressor at -8 db, 8 ratio, slow attack moderate release. 707 snare going through eq8 with some low cut out, compressor shaping the decay, another compressor with -10 db sidechain to kick. 909 open hat with eq8, and small sidechain to kick. this is sent to a return with psp vintage warmer 2.

for loops it depends, always an eq8 cutting out some lows below 250hz, sometimes i like to use a waves c4 to compress the lower band, and then always sidechain to kick using 10 ratio, -20 to -40 db threshold, 0.30 attack 0.40 release, 0 knee. sometimes i get ballsy and parallel compress this track, or i just squash it, all depends on the sound i want

im pretty lousy at mastering, usually always start with a fab filter pro q, a few compressors kissing the transients, one or two limiters(most likely waves L3 but lately invisible limiter for less color and more loud), and then a touch of saturation, sometimes a tiny amount of manny m verb.

basically i always use EQ8 and almost always compressor for sidechaining, be it for effect or controlling dynamics. so basically i really like ableton default stuff and psp vintage warmer

I've read a lot about him, dude was great, his approach to gain staging fundamentally changed the way I produce music.

you are in sacramento CK?

midi keyboard died, what a bunch of butt

just finished mine, will probably sample it a bit for future works

yeah nigga

everyone thats left didn't really have a good reason, usually due to lack of time or unhappiness with their tracks. if you really want to do something you can make time, if you are unhappy with your tracks the last thing you should be doing is not working on them. the worst part is one someone quits and makes a thread about it like everyone cares or something

that being said, we should do an under the influence week, compose a song under the influence of drugs or alcohol