Loving those bassline squelches! Off to look at the Bestie now 😂I love a bit of distortion me

Loving those bassline squelches! Off to look at the Bestie now 😂I love a bit of distortion me

There is some tasty, tasty crunch on this! That's from the Bestie, I take it? Suppose that means I will now have to have a look at that device, too.

If you permit me a form of unsolicited feedback. What would happen if you push the highs a bit more? Get a bit more crunch going. Maybe run the whole track out of your speakers into a microphone. And, cut the lows and crush the living daylights out of it. Blend it in quietly underneath your current mix. Get some natural room and air going. I think that could give it some additional 'sizzle'. Don't get me wrong, the track has nice distortion. And I hear a bit of reverb...but overall it feels a bit stale/rigid to me. I think having a quiet chaotic layer in there could spark some life into it.

This is wholly my opinion of course. So do with it what you will. Hope you don't mind me suggesting it though.

There is some tasty, tasty crunch on this! That's from the Bestie, I take it? Suppose that means I will now have to have a look at that device, too. If you permit me a form of unsolicited feedback. What would happen if you push the highs a bit more? Get a bit more crunch going. Maybe run the whole track out of your speakers into a microphone. And, cut the lows and crush the living daylights out of it. Blend it in quietly underneath your current mix. Get some natural room and air going. I think that could give it some additional 'sizzle'. Don't get me wrong, the track has nice distortion. And I hear a bit of reverb...but overall it feels a bit stale/rigid to me. I think having a quiet chaotic layer in there could spark some life into it. This is wholly my opinion of course. So do with it what you will. Hope you don't mind me suggesting it though.

Really digging this track. Especially the part where you start to introduce the synth at around 00:35. Great sound.

Really digging this track. Especially the part where you start to introduce the synth at around 00:35. Great sound.

This is good advice, thanks. I have played around before with recording dry and wet signals, maybe even two different flavours of distortion, and then applying filters and mixing to taste in a DAW to try and get a good sound. I'm still a newbie so I often cannot hear what's wrong with a mix, but I work at improving.

I hear the "reverb" too but I think it's just delay from the instruments combined with the Bestie feedback smearing it.

[quote=electronic_tiger]What would happen if you push the highs a bit more? Get a bit more crunch going. ... [/quote] This is good advice, thanks. :) I have played around before with recording dry and wet signals, maybe even two different flavours of distortion, and then applying filters and mixing to taste in a DAW to try and get a good sound. I'm still a newbie so I often cannot hear what's wrong with a mix, but I work at improving. I hear the "reverb" too but I think it's just delay from the instruments combined with the Bestie feedback smearing it.

Are you using your S-1 to get that acid-y sound? Pretty nice! I tried at one point to get a squelch out of that thing, but I think it'd need some crazy distortion or something.

I love the fat booming kick and weird hall reverb on the percussion. It sounds very "berlin club".

Are you using your S-1 to get that acid-y sound? Pretty nice! I tried at one point to get a squelch out of that thing, but I think it'd need some crazy distortion or something. I love the fat booming kick and weird hall reverb on the percussion. It sounds very "berlin club".

Yeah the squeltch acid is all S-1 distorted by the Bestie. I used the D-Motion feature for live tweaking. When I first got the S-1 the D-Motion thing felt like a bad gimmick but it's actually quite useful for stuff like this. I was able to adjust the filter on the S-1 by holding it in one hand while still having the other hand free for the TR-6S.

I'm also obviously using the arp on the S-1. You can hear where I stop changing the notes, that's where I press "hold," activate "d-motion," pick the S-1 up, and start tilting it in the air. It would be better to have a mini NTS Kaoss pad kit or something for tweaking but this works well enough.

[quote=0x_colt]Are you using your S-1 to get that acid-y sound? Pretty nice! I tried at one point to get a squelch out of that thing, but I think it'd need some crazy distortion or something.[/quote] Yeah the squeltch acid is all S-1 distorted by the Bestie. I used the D-Motion feature for live tweaking. When I first got the S-1 the D-Motion thing felt like a bad gimmick but it's actually quite useful for stuff like this. I was able to adjust the filter on the S-1 by holding it in one hand while still having the other hand free for the TR-6S. I'm also obviously using the arp on the S-1. You can hear where I stop changing the notes, that's where I press "hold," activate "d-motion," pick the S-1 up, and start tilting it in the air. It would be better to have a mini NTS Kaoss pad kit or something for tweaking but this works well enough.

Love the dirt and the grit!

Love the dirt and the grit!