"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"
How do you get your high end sounds to sound so close to the front of the mix like that? I always run into a clipping issue when trying to make things loud
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.
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.
My bass is going to be mono, and quite loud (which i want) So i need to make my highs really count. I think panning more things instead of just using a ping pong delay.
The ping pong delay gets washed out in the drop and the track loses stereo info, because the wet delay signal is like -18 db. If things were hard panned it would still sound stereo with a fuller mix. I think that super saw takes up a lot of treble space and sounds very narrow.