"Tolkien'" by indigochild

About This Track

Fell together in a couple of days, mastered on headphones, so the balance might be all over the place.

Comments

• May 19, 2008

  canton

  SLAMMING. Love love love the long spacious pretty break in the middle. The filtering is lovely. Any tips on what plugin(s) you're using for the tight many-poles filtering? One idea: what about doing something about how the kick and the bassline both fall simultaneously on the downbeat? As a result they eat up one another's energy, and there's not much room for either to punch. I'd be interested to hear what if the downbeat on the bassline were moved from the 1 to a 16th or an 8th later. Would be a different bassline but all of a sudden I think you'd hear both the kick and the bass. (would also be funky.) Or a more subtle thing would be to timeshift the kick maybe 10ms early.
• May 19, 2008

  indigochild

  Thanks mate. I realised the bass drum was getting lost a bit, and I tried using a sidechain compressor, but it made the base line incomprehensible, so I'm not quite sure what to do about that yet. As for the filtering, its probably the Waves L2 that you're hearing, plus several passes through different compressors, and eq's that look like crudely drawn faces. Also some spacial tinkering and an exciter, and the bass is saturated with a sinusoid fold, and probably some other stuff:) I don't think funkifying it further will do so much, the bass already leans on the quaver before the crotchet except the first and seventh beat, what I really need is some kind of gamma powered mechanical monster, with freeway onramps for arms. I hadn't thought of shifting it by a few ms though, will pursue.
• May 20, 2008

  anechoix

  nice

  i think that the problem with the kick can be solved by laying off a little bit of that heavy compression - letting it breath a little will make it noticable plus , just maybe 2-3 db less compressed on the l2. nice job anyway :)
• May 20, 2008

  indigochild

  thanks. If it boils down to noodling with compression settings, I can't be doing much wrong. I'll isolate the useful kick frequencies and filter the bass there.