There wasn't much more room sonically to have the harmonics of the bass reach up in the 300-500Hz range...which is where you'd get that sort of low-mid that would carry on tiny speakers. I realized this, and made a personal decision to allow more of the reverby/atmos mids to carry it a bit more. It's a learning experience for me, as an engineer vs. a composer. Your production mixes are always spot on and for me, I have spent more time on the composition side than the engineering side of production. D&B is a particularly difficult genre to work if you want to have more going on in a track than wobble/drum riff. I listened to a lot of hospital stuff to get the vibe for how they were separating the spaces in the mix, but in the end, I really wanted more atmos... making it more 'mine' than a dancefloor track. In the end, that probably will make the tune sound 'half' finished, or straddling the borders...not certain of where it wants to go. That said, I am going to continue to work on this sort of stuff. I'm really leaning away from the glitchy/dsp/plugin driven "IDM" sounds, or minimal techno etc sounds.
The only reason I go on this tangent here, Michiel, is that I value your opinion higher than most, and we rarely have time to chat about production with each other much anymore.
over and out.
Oh yeah, and I got a little love from Acid Ted this week--which is always nice.
