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Elektron boxes are fun, but can they deliver a deep punchy kick and bass that would hold up well during mastering? My dream was always to record live my tracks on dawless setups and then go straight into mastering achieving rich, release-ready sound. It took me years to try and test different techniques and setups to arrive to a sound I am 100% happy with. I now run two setups - one is what you see in the video, and another one is based on the Digi duo. Check it out: So, how does one achieve a pumping kick and bass from Elektron Analog Rytm Mk2? The answer is hidden behind three essential techniques: 1. Avoid Kick and Bass overlaps when programming your sequences. 2. Use proper headphones when dialling in the kick - there's a subtle sweet spot between the TUN and SWT parameters. Took me a day to find it. 3. Use high pass with subtle resonance on the Kick around 40-60hz to both take out the excess sub rumble and accentuate the punch. Gain staging and mastering are important too as a good kick and bass can be ruined by a clipping recording. It's always wise to stay orange at max when recording and have some headroom for the mixing stage. Finally, when mastering, I apply two fun tricks - one is multiband compression of the master where I compress the mid and -expand- the highs and lows. And then, I use subtle parallel OTT multiband compression around 7% on each stem. This, along with eq and limiting, of course. Fell free to ask anything about the dawless station and this take in the comments. Also, hear my tunes here: #elektron #analogrytm #analogfour #mc101 #nord #sidechain #dawless
