New Tune: Muteqx - Game Grid

[Dave S]

On Monday 11 February 2008, Mikael Hansson wrote:
> Now the snare has the impact I missed before! How did you do it? It
> sounds as the old one is still there, maybe mixed with another one or
> maybe just some eq and fx?

Hi Micke,

You're correct!  It's the original snare sound but with another harder, deeper 
snare mixed in underneath it.  The original snare is still quite spaced out 
over the stereo image, but the new one is panned more centrally.  I 
occasionally use each in isolation for a tiny bit of variety.

I've done a similar thing with the kick.  The original is still there but I 
mixed two samples together to add in a kick from a Kawai XD-5 that had a 
really hard attack and quite a lot of sub as it's tail-off.  It actually 
clipped very slightly when I did this (only a little) but this sounded better 
than when I mixed them together again without the clipping, so I decided to 
leave it in as it added to the impact.

I've put some harder multiband compression on the kicks and snares to make 
them quite solid and punchy, and a touch of reverb too just to help them sit 
better in the mix.

Cheers,

~Dave (Starting another track today!)