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Congratulations dude!!!

You're gonna love it!

Is it a version 2?

The sound is the same of both, but the version 1 doesn't have enough voices to do everything you might want at once. If you do one thing at a time and then bounce, there will be no difference, but it's handy to have the polyphony :)

:)

I'm not sure if it's version 2... apparently version 2's have an orange stripe along the bottom of the front panel - I asked the guy I'm buying it from and he says there's an orange stripe along the top... No idea then :)

Mine's got an orange stripe along the top. You'll be sweet dude :)

siiiiiik

It's coming today, can't wait to perforate those eardrums...

ahhhhh

the elusive perfect kick drum is mine...

Drumstation 909 Kick > Valve Compressor + Exciter = Bliss

Thanks for the encouragement Gopal...

You're most welcome dude.

The kick is perfect straight outta the box, but what did it for me even more is the hihats. Fuck they sound awesome with no effects at all, just eq.

I just wish I had a valve compressor to run things through. What one have you got and what do you think of it?

you're right, it is a perfectly round kick straight out of the box, but I'm going for that 'www.1.fm -> club' / 'EDR Club' compressed kick sound where the kick is almost invisible, but still with plenty of bounce and impact - it's hard to describe - it's like a rubber bubble with no thump whatsoever...

the valve I use is a TL Audio Ivory 5021. I love it.

http://www.tlaudio.co.uk/tlaudio/doc...ew/5021rev.htm

It makes my sounds smoother than a baby's backside. When they're coming from the Virus to begin with... it's pure silk dude :) Highly recommended!

that's so weird - I've put a drumstation kick into the track I've been working on - it registers much more strongly on the master bus compressor - resonates really nicely in my ears on headphones, and has that nice balloon sound in pro records, and suddenly my mix is completely out of whack... Everything is too loud. It's like the old kick was stealing a load of bandwidth...

has anyone else had this?

Re: getting a track ready for mastering - my first time...

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Originally Posted by pseudonym

Hey,

What's the best practice for getting your track ready for mastering in terms of the levels of sound etc...

I've been using vintage warmer, UAD plugs and an outboard exciter on my track to make it sound as big as possible, but will that spoil the job the professional mastering dudes will do?

is it best to just deliver a clean sounding mix without beefing up the bottom end and making the high end polished with excitement?

or is anything I do to make the sound richer and warmer just going to add to the quality of master?

I'm getting myself hyped about having a track that's good enough to be mastered (after about 8 years of practice - damn I'm slow...)

so, in my heightened state of hype, I'd love to hear from anyone who's been though this process and can tell me what it's like to send and receive from a pro mastering studio...

cheers,

pseudo

I think you should also ask this question on the sound on sound forum..Them guys have an answer for everything :D good forum!!