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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks Dave. That's good info.</DIV></DIV>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:dave.silvester@gmail.com">Dave S</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">01/03/2014 23:31</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org">Music-bar</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Re: New Muteqx on Soundcloud</SPAN><BR><BR></DIV>
<P dir=ltr>Hi Declan,</P>
<P dir=ltr>On 25 Feb 2014 10:06, <<A href="mailto:declan@degomusic.net">declan@degomusic.net</A>> wrote:<BR>><BR>> Very nice Dave. I am really into this sort of sound and it's good to hear it coming from somebody on the music-bar.</P>
<P dir=ltr>Thanks! Glad you like it! I don't quite know what to call this style but it's sort of dub-tech-step ish I guess?</P>
<P dir=ltr>> You managed to keep the bass under control in the mix while still giving it a lot of balls. Do you fancy sharing what you did to achieved this?</P>
<P dir=ltr>I have a very calculated approach to my mix and it all starts with the kick and the bass levels (kick to -10dB max, bass to -12dB max). After that, the rest is a bit more arbitrary but uses lots of EQ to keep the bottom end clear under about 200Hz. I compress my kicks pretty hard, and the bass is rolled off to be mostly sub, and then compressed a bit. Roll off everything under about 20Hz.</P>
<P dir=ltr>Add a tiny bit of slow-release sidechaining from the kicks to the pad levels and that helps add to the impact slightly.</P>
<P dir=ltr>Reckon that's it! :-)</P>
<P dir=ltr>Cheers, Dave</P></BODY></HTML>