DOMINION is an aggressive drift phonk track built around distorted bass, dark cowbells, glitch effects, and high-energy transitions.
Produced entirely in Audiotool by Sub2xxx.
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DOMINION (RE-MASTER UPDATE): Fixed critical low-end clashing and pitch grid alignments across the Clean Double 808 sub and ScrapYard industrial bass layers, eliminating background mud while restoring full sub-bass weight. The Impervious low cowbell has been re-EQ'd to unmask its 800 Hz to 1 kHz metallic knock, keeping deep notes audible right alongside the main Dystopia lead. Channel volume faders have been gain-staged to completely eliminate master bus brickwall clipping, while high-energy atmospheric FX (engine revs and risers) were pulled back to let the main vocals breathe. Finally, the sidechain automation was recalibrated to a precise -18 dB to -24 dB curve—delivering a heavy, hard-hitting phonk pump without cutting off note tails.
Finally, the sidechain automation was recalibrated to a precise -18 dB to -24 dB curve—delivering a heavy, hard-hitting phonk pump without cutting off note tails.
Unfortunately can't say much except this isn't good.
The cowbells/bass are not in pitch in any part, the vocal also seems to clash in those terms, the mix isn't good, sidechain seems to be a little too strong on that kick. This could work if you took more care of the bass and cowbells correlating more. Perhaps it could also just be the mix though. The bass has these higher hiss frequencies, but they're really in the way, it would make more sense if the bass had more power in the low end - more like a sub. The structure is a little weird and could use more melodic variation.
yeah i listened back and honestly the mix was kinda cooked 💀 i had way too much stuff fighting for space. the cowbells were boosted in weird frequencies, the vocal was basically trapped in a tiny frequency range, and the master was pushing the highs way too hard. i went through and fixed the melody eq, bass eq, vocal eq, master eq and compression, so now everything has more room and u can actually hear the details instead of it being one giant wall of sound. still hard and aggressive but not just loud for the sake of being loud. gonna keep tweaking a few small things but its way cleaner now
Did you use ai to make the description
DOMINION (RE-MASTER UPDATE): Fixed critical low-end clashing and pitch grid alignments across the Clean Double 808 sub and ScrapYard industrial bass layers, eliminating background mud while restoring full sub-bass weight. The Impervious low cowbell has been re-EQ'd to unmask its 800 Hz to 1 kHz metallic knock, keeping deep notes audible right alongside the main Dystopia lead. Channel volume faders have been gain-staged to completely eliminate master bus brickwall clipping, while high-energy atmospheric FX (engine revs and risers) were pulled back to let the main vocals breathe. Finally, the sidechain automation was recalibrated to a precise -18 dB to -24 dB curve—delivering a heavy, hard-hitting phonk pump without cutting off note tails.
Unfortunately can't say much except this isn't good. The cowbells/bass are not in pitch in any part, the vocal also seems to clash in those terms, the mix isn't good, sidechain seems to be a little too strong on that kick. This could work if you took more care of the bass and cowbells correlating more. Perhaps it could also just be the mix though. The bass has these higher hiss frequencies, but they're really in the way, it would make more sense if the bass had more power in the low end - more like a sub. The structure is a little weird and could use more melodic variation.
WHY DOES THIS GO SO F-ING HARD
oh my god this mixing is atrocious thats literally all i have to say about this track if u fix the mixing and shit itll be good