What's up people,
Today i'm struggling with a new tune I'm working on. The drums are pretty simple, a old sampled break with a fat kick and clap layers. The drum in solo sounds exactly as i want them to sound.
I got a pretty distorted bass for this tune, made in massive -> Two detuned saws and just a lot of effects. It just plays long notes with some variations. Underneath a Triangle sub and on top some FX stuff (white noise, and a top end bass layer).
The whole tune is in Eminor and i'm pretty sure all the Drum hits hit on an EMinor chord. The problem is, when i play the reece together with the drums the whole drum set sounds kind of compressed, the bass doesn't give the drums air to breath. I tried sidechaining it heavily to kick & snare. The straightness of the bass gets lost and it doesn't sound good at all. I also tried to cut out some frequencies where the kick and snare hits, also without success (the bass sounds weak afterwards).
Seems like i can't fix the problem with volumes either. If i put the bass back the whole tune leaks pressure, if i put it up, again the drums starting to sound bad. How can i manage to get air between heavy reeces and drums? If i compare to other tunes you can clearly say that kick and snare have a certain region where they can do whatever they want, aswell as the bass that sits on top of it.
I'm starting to get desperate
Today i'm struggling with a new tune I'm working on. The drums are pretty simple, a old sampled break with a fat kick and clap layers. The drum in solo sounds exactly as i want them to sound.
I got a pretty distorted bass for this tune, made in massive -> Two detuned saws and just a lot of effects. It just plays long notes with some variations. Underneath a Triangle sub and on top some FX stuff (white noise, and a top end bass layer).
The whole tune is in Eminor and i'm pretty sure all the Drum hits hit on an EMinor chord. The problem is, when i play the reece together with the drums the whole drum set sounds kind of compressed, the bass doesn't give the drums air to breath. I tried sidechaining it heavily to kick & snare. The straightness of the bass gets lost and it doesn't sound good at all. I also tried to cut out some frequencies where the kick and snare hits, also without success (the bass sounds weak afterwards).
Seems like i can't fix the problem with volumes either. If i put the bass back the whole tune leaks pressure, if i put it up, again the drums starting to sound bad. How can i manage to get air between heavy reeces and drums? If i compare to other tunes you can clearly say that kick and snare have a certain region where they can do whatever they want, aswell as the bass that sits on top of it.
I'm starting to get desperate