I appreciate the kind words! Yeah the kick was pretty simple, cant remember the exact samples I used cus i dont have the project open rn, but I'm pretty sure it was out of a STMPD records-style sample pack I found on youtube. grouped two of the kicks from that together and added some staged saturation, and then just some light compression on the drum bus for all the percussion. I usually have all my synths incl. basses in a group that has my final processing and a glue compressor on the end that's just SC'd to the kick. And I group my synths based on what they're doing, so besides just separating basses from my chords, or melodies, I also seperate the parts of my chords into track into stabs, arpeggios, held pads, and then I process them all as one. It's a lot easier to have control over 18 sounds seperated into 4 unified sections than it is to process 18 sounds at once, which is what I did for the track you asked abt (which I'll link down below). and yeah, probably since I was 14-ish, I'm 19 rn, but I took a massive break for a couple years whilst I figured personal stuff out, so I've recently gotten back to producing after about 2 years, of what was pretty much nothing. I guess being a synthesiser and MaxMSP nerd has its upsides in helping keep the cogs alive though hehe
anyways, here's the ole track -->
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