High Density

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High Density

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Wanted to test out my roland r8m, so I put it through its paces with some techno-sounding stuff along with the rest of the gear. The kinda bitcrushy pad is my TX81z, the kinda vocal-ish pad is the JD-800, the actual bass comes from the JX-3P. Drums are obviously the R8-M, and then the 4th chord stabs are Boog and the weird arp thing is the neutron.

Had a lot of fun with this, did some nice processing afterwards. Just a lot of fun to tweak knobs and mess with things. Just a fun little song to test stuff with!

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BeyondGravity

2019-07-26 12:41:27

This is very interesting. Very mellow yet kinda hectic. Again that may just be me, but this sounds like the background music for some Ghost in the Shell like hacking going on. Like the Major hacking her way to her mission objective. It also gives off a stealth vibe.

Love the arpeggio on this track quite a bit and all the filter work as well.

Quick question. I tend to deal with the issue that my reverb gets 'hissy' and 'crowded' when applied too much, but with out it my sound has no 'room' to it. (If that makes any sense) Happen to have a tip or two to combat this?

quantumdylan responds:

Thank you very much! <3

With reverb, I've been messing around a lot with stereo width, sidechained compression, and just some slight EQing.

What I do is treat the reverb as a send effect and give it its own channel, then I'll put a compressor on that and sidechain that compressor with either the drum track or with the actual channel I'm reverbing. That way if the kick or the channel gets louder, I'll duck the reverb and keep it from muddying the mix.

Then, stereo widening does a bunch. Something like a simple delay between the left and right channel can do wonders for that, pseudo-stereo stuff.

A multiband compressor might do you well as well! That way you can keep the highs but also prevent them from getting too loud. I use this dynamic EQ as well that will reduce the volume of hisses and higher-frequency noise from my tape recordings more as the volume of the track increases.

But yeah, that's maybe a few things to try out! Sorry for the dump of info lol :D