Primal Drive

Getting heavy nostalgia from early 2000's. Man this is a vibe.

Of course!

Thanks for the comment! This definitely made my day when I read it

"Roland Corporation... 1982 they call it the TV 303.. it was suppost to be substitute for a bass player... little did the japanese know what their product would become"

Or most popular track, according to my profile

Thanks!

My master chain is pretty simple. I just had some final EQing, some multiband compression to create a few dBs of headroom and a waveshaper. I like using the waveshaper as a hard ceiling limiter. So in a way, I am inducing clipping on the transient peaks, but in a way that makes them brighter in the mix.

This project is remixable, so feel free to take a look around if you like.

Grouping my high end sounds together also helps me hear how they work together. My drums channel is for high frequency sound with transients, things like claps, snares, and percs. My synths channel has higher frequency sounds that are more sustained, like my arps and 303.

I think it's a combination of how I group my mixes and sound design. In this project, the only things that were allowed to have energy below 200 hz were the kick and bass, everything else was high passed hard. On my master bus, I was feeding it the kick, bass, synths, and drums. Synths and drums were high passed and contained most of the high end.