Oxx - Exos - Acid 2 - (Bring the Beat Back)

Another pick from deepsid that caught my attention.

Bring the beat back is ripped from the song justified and ancient, from the album the white room by The KLF, one of my favorite bands from the 90's. I strongly recommend listening to the album if you've never done before (but am also sure that you all did 😊 )

This remix has added the following experiments to my learning journey:

1. Direct the outputs of the tracks that together form the melody or bass or drums to a dedicated bus first, instead of sending them directly to the master. I can't believe I have been missing this from the start, because I benefited so much from it.

2. The sub bass. (Awareness of the low end. I still don't know if it is good enough or not.)
3. Side chaining & ducking (kick and bass bus), which I was aware of and did for one of my remixes before but neglected till this one afterward. This time I also experimented with the attack and release.

4. Amp envelope ADSR adjustments for certain parts of the remix. I had been doing some alterations for all kinds of parameters but never programmed any automation for amp envelope ADSR, and it was a great help especially for the bass to be heard clearer in the second part of the remix where it plays more aggressively. Yes you can clone the track and change these values there but..

and more and more.

This is my learning journey and I am grateful to all of you for giving your time and having patience listening to my work and mostly for your valuable feedback.

DAW: Cakewalk by BandLab

Synths: Vital, Surge XT, Decent Sampler ( the synths sample pack by Matthew: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/the-synths/ )

Drums: Mostly with samples ripped from a free demo by WA Productions (SoundCloud)

Tempo: 125 BPM

Base: Am

Best regards.

Oxx