Here’s a smoov Digitone-only speed garage jam.
Sequenced by Toraiz Squid .
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Hey my people, here’s my new baby, getting habituated to mix on headphones and checking with iem and bluetooth speakers. Hope that’s tasty and cheesy.
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Nice mix and arrangement. Really wide.
Sounds like there are several grace notes in the bassline, with a heavy swing…was that your intention?
Well i always love grace notes in basslines but this time i added 16th swing, then resampled the whole bassline and then tweaked it within ableton audio warp tool (complex pro) to add even more swing and overall unpredictability, because my bassline on the very beginning of the track creation was very boring to my ears, i wanted it to sound more like a funky bass played by a human somehow
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i didn’t see a dedicated mixing thread so good as place as any to bring up getting sufficiently wide stereo mixes for a house track. i’m just getting started tracking my hardware gear into Logic and thought I was getting some reasonable width and separation of various elements. then i’ll go back and listen to, just as one example, some old Farley & Heller or Weatherall mixes from the 90s and feel like i should just chuck it in. short of going into a studio with similar levels of outboard gear, not sure how to get to that level of impeccable production in a current DAW. panning with a purpose and widening plugins help for sure, but my samples are all coming from an MPC, which now seems to have a stereo field the width of a magazine to my ears. what have others done to master discrete placement across a sufficiently wide stereo field? thx!
That’s a good question. There’s plenty that can be said on the topic of width with regards to mixing. Any mix can sound wide and suck, or narrow and rock. In my experience it’s about the balance between wide elements and narrow elements which creates impact.
Having said that, I’m guilty of perhaps not worrying much about width in my mixes. They’re wide alright but I don’t do much to get there. Very few elements get panned at all in my mixes, usually just the ear candy stuff, and even then I try to keep it subtle (mostly fall) yet I don’t think my mixes can be deemed narrow. 
(note to reader who may not have heard it, my music can be found on several posts up thread. Lmk if too narrow 
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One thing I definitely do not do, haven’t done for years, and do not recommend, yet is or used to be a commonly shared tip for those new to mixing, is making the bass mono. That’s the kind of tip that should come with an asterisk.
In my opinion, pad sounds and stereo reverb effects tend to come with enough side information to fill the space. You can also give the free iZotope a go on some buses, and you can then try to do some m/s processing on the side, adding some bite to it, and then you’re probably good to go 
just check the goniometer to make sure you’re not overdoing it too much on the 2bus! 
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Because I’m a nerd and like dissecting how house was made… Check this out.
Just a vocal over a loop. A loop. One of the biggest house jams ever…
Never will I complain about Elektrons program changes or latency or anything like that
A freaking loop over a vocal. And some jammed out mutes and faders. Jam. Huge jam!
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