Sidechaining an 808 makes sense to preserve headroom but it's not prevalent in hip hop. Depends upon the 808 and kick, context, etc. Entirely subjective

You can multiband sidechain with Trash 2 and TDR Nova.

unfinished but made this real quick clyp.it/edxjwnln

I fw this. That one perc u have (not the cowbell) pan it to the left with the reverb. Will give the snare and kick a little room in the middle

thanks bro

This is hard f*** bro, sounds like u spent extra time on it, the structure is perfect. I really like the saturation and soft clipping!

Everything sounds great here king

I’ll try it out

I spent some time on it yeah thank you!

What do you think about the vocals? I thought maybe they should be more in the background

This beat sounds nice and fun like s*** Lil Yachty would jump on back in the day

I do it with fruity limiter and all it did is make it sound better when the kicks and 808 hit together what's wrong with it?

I think they're fine, the theremin type synth is a little goofy for me tho

it was semi inspired by Rich $ex

The melody and pad sound real cute like a video game music

I think it needs to sound fuller and take more place in the mix, I mostly hear the kick and 808 whichsound clean, it's just that I'd want more of the synths

I really forgot the beat is all synthy and melodic

Future really make all these songs his own

Synths on that song provided by Frank Dukes

Every time I see the name Frank Dukes it's GOAT s***

I wouldn't have been surprised to see him on After Hours (but he wasn't)

He helped produce Alone Again, but that was it

Anyone use sample library previews for references?

listen...to..oth..how they sound

I really try and use as much as I can in my arsenal, you can create interesting sound palettes if the drums compliment each other in a dark/light sort of dichotomy

Like u can have a really ugly snare with a smooth kick, kind of a taste thing really

You indeed need to listen to other songs lol

KAYTRANADA always have sick drums patterns

Oh ur strictly loops, idk just find a loop put a high pass filter effect on it. Add some lo fi tape saturation, and yeah

Downloads every drum kit you can find

How to place the drums? Listne to the song and try to copy that into the program

Look into YouTube videos about your DAW to figure out automations and drum mixing

I only knew FL Studio had cool options like velocity, reversing and stuff from watching videos

clyp.it/wegmdrjj I kinda did something like that here. What I did was output the loop to a WAVES J37 plugin, and put the tape speed at 7.5 ips. I put it on send/return and just drove the f*** out of the output

Turned the lowpass to about 4199.5hz and this was the result