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    Aleksi Perälä - The Colundi Sequence

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    MU1 is, to my ears, the best of the bunch. MU4 is great but may have some fillers (compared to MU1 at least). And no matter how much I love some of the tunes in MU2&3 (Oscid :wub: ), I've never really got into those albums.

     

    Same goes for the Colundis : I've bought them all, think the music is stellar, but somehow there's too much material to listen to.

    Level 3, 4 and 6 stand out to me though.

    Monitors.

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by lin

    If you're doing a jungle track with a low heavy bassline, there's lots of chances you'll filter out your kick/drum set under 50Hz to let the bassline breath. And if you HPF the bassline under20/30Hz you'll most likely make it sound better than if it rumbles down to 10Hz... Especially if you do some buss-compression on your drums or 2buss.

     

    The opposite goes for a more techno infused track : HPF the kick under 20/30Hz, HPF the bassline under 50/70Hz and every other track up to 200Hz, and the tune will sound heavy as fuck and punchy at the same time :)

     

    The same thing applies in the high freqs, but I prefer shelves up there.

     

    Anyway my point was that monitor sometimes go pretty low to check that you don't mess everyhting downthere. The cleaner the low freqs, the better the mix : it opens the whole spectrum up.

     

    Sorry if this is an obvious mixing routine to y'all,. If not, it took my mixes to the next level when I learnt it, so give it a try. Cleaning the useless LF and HF, as well as proper gain staging make mixing so much easier and more enjoyable.

    Monitors.

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    Lots of (nearfield) monitors go pretty low... but it doesn't mean that all are reliable down there. To me, they often sound artificial in the low-end, with an exaggerated bass response which is misleading.

     

    I'm used to my monitors which are super precise down to 50/60Hz but roll off quickly under that, and find them super useful to get those tricky low/low-mids right. A good set of headphones to check the subs et voilà, done.

     

    Anyway, HPF everything, from the 30 to 200Hz depending on the source :) 9 times out of 10, super low frequencies are useless, they kill punch and make everything muddy.

    APHEX TWIN - SYRO

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    Mont St Michel chilled out eh ?

     

    Anyway, Syro :

     

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    On first listen, I love the more donwtempo ones (damn, the 5 first ones are incredible), as well as papat4 and syro u473t8+e. And Aisatsana is gorgeous. Can't wait to receive the triple LP and Japanese edition CD.

     

    Ps: might be the leak (and the fact I can't listen to Syro on my monitors at the moment), but aren't the mixes darker than on his previous albums ?

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