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ive uploaded a couple of wips you can check them in my thread on the first page. cheers bro

You should post some stuff you working on mate would love to check it out.

such a hard thing to get right ae. It can definitely make or break a mix in some cases. totally depends on the tune. Some things to try: limit yourself to two main hat sounds get them working its all a real drummer would really be capable of doing if you cant get them working maybe different samples are needed.

Dont have them the driving force ie too loud in the mix just a little sizzle on top of the drums, or the total opposite have them very direct and clear need to be very nice samples and complement everything else for this, in this case they can sometimes help the whole transient of the kick/snare providing the top end and sharpness to them. Removing the attack of them can help them sound smoother in the mix and not jump out or hurt your ears so much. side chaining them can help them groove with the drums so much better most of the time.

changing the samples pitch ever so slightly threw out the sequence. sending to a buss and also some kind of sub bass to the same buss distorting until the sub makes the hihat break up then eqing out the sub sound is a cool effect to get that broken up hihat sound some of pspn2o distortions work well for this.

Some ideas hope that might help but yea something i struggle with too.

cheers mate

I would guess its just sound selection man. He is just using the right sounds that give it that vibe. If i was going for that sound i would probably avoid synths as much as possible.

For the drums just dig around for old school breaks chop them up in a sampler re program them. so much you can do once you have these hits in kontakt.

You could try messing around with multiband distortion on the drums i can hear some nice low mid distortion on some of the kick drums which i think helps with that old school sound.

so making a tight band and moving that around and ruffing up some of the mid kick frequencies could work, its so easy for things to sound too clean with all the technology we have today.

for the bass i would be making really simple sounds in a synth then bounce and load into kontakt then adding layers of filtering/distortion/ tape emulation. just bit by bit trying to mould them into something that sounds a bit ruff and old school.

Im not sure if this helps at all you are probably well aware of all these things. I would suggest checking some of fanus tutorials he is a break master and tends to have that oldschool vibe in his tracks.

Cheers

awesome stuff dude a lot of attention to detail! keen as for a collab if your up for it man 🙂