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That free MFB‑522 sample pack is only around until Sunday, and it’s the kind of round, dusty drum sound that instantly glues a lo‑fi house groove. Pair it tonight with a clean FM bass patch from the ANA 2 tutorial — the one where you deliberately tune the kick away from the bass note — and your low end will breathe instead of smearing.
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Flame Sound Analogue Drums (free)
A 233 MB sample pack of the MFB‑522 drum machine, recorded through tape and tube preamps. Contains kits for Kontakt, Geist, and Poise — dusty, round, and dry. If you’re tired of brittle 808 samples, this is a solid palette swap.
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▶ FM Bass in ANA 2: Clean Bottom, Wide Top
Build a clean FM bass in ANA 2 with a Moog‑style filter wobble, parallel saturation, and a counterintuitive move: tune the kick away from the bass note for tighter low end. You’ll also see how to high‑pass a chorus at 250 Hz to keep the sub mono‑friendly and layer a top end with Erosion for width without mud.
gold at 05:05, 03:50, 06:20 — Uses Saturn 2 tape mode for drive · watch →
Gates & Expanders: Beyond Noise Removal
Distilling the manual: gate threshold as noise‑floor sniffer, range/floor to let a little bleed through, attack tweaks to keep the snap, and the old trick of duplicating a track and advancing it as an external side‑chain key so the gate opens before the transient hits. Also covers when to skip the gate entirely and grab a fingerprint denoiser like RX.
FRCTL Audio Aura ($24,99)
A new paid reverb with a clever 1.6 kHz 'Fuse' dip that carves a pocket for leads without thinning the tail, plus automatic ducking by a precise dB amount to keep the mix from swimming. A Lite version — same engine, fewer modes — is free, so you can audition the clarity before committing.
▶ Softube Weiss DS1 Gets a Multiband Deep‑Dive
Mixing With Mike walks through Softube’s Weiss DS1 multiband compressor, showing why scaled attack and release times across bands sound more natural than identical settings, how a hardened knee rounds transients without crushing them, and the trade‑off between static and linear phase. If you’ve been guessing at multiband, this video will sharpen your intuition.
— LarryLuxe's pick
Fastest riser: Hector Couto, KIRIK — Day By Day (Original Mix)
"Day By Day (Original Mix)" by Hector Couto, KIRIK (Cecille) — a ~50-spot leap in 7 days on the Deep House chart, into the thick of the pack.
Producers: A ~50-spot leap in a week is buyer demand, not editorial placement — the release behind it and Cecille's current slate are worth studying. DJs: Now in the thick of the pack and still moving.
Back on the board: Raise (ofc), Manoo — Lost (Manoo Remix)
"Lost (Manoo Remix)" by Raise (ofc), Manoo (Rythmica) has re-entered the Afro House chart in the deep end after dropping off — a comeback worth noting.
Producers: Coming back after dropping off is rarer than debuting — demand here has a second wind. DJs: A returner — re-entered straight into the deep end.
Remix outperforming: Mylo, Claptone, Purple Disco Machine — Drop The Pressure (Purple Disco Machine Remix)
"Drop The Pressure (Purple Disco Machine Remix)" by Mylo, Claptone, Purple Disco Machine (Different), a remix, is charting in the front of the board on the Nu Disco / Indie Dance chart — a rework outrunning the field.
Producers: When the rework outruns the field, the source material has more room in it — worth noting if you remix. DJs: The rework is the one moving — sitting in the front of the board tonight.
Robin S – Show Me Love (StoneBridge mix) · early '90s
The Korg M1 organ bass that still clears a floor. No fluff—just a perfect groove, a vocal that cuts, and a sidechain that made the whole thing breathe.
- synth: Korg M1 Organ 2 — The preset is Organ 2. Monophonic, no chorus, no reverb. Play the two-note intervals dead straight, no velocity—just the raw tone. That’s the whole sound.
- technique: Sidechain pump — StoneBridge’s mix ducks the bassline under the kick. Compressor on the organ channel, sidechain input from the kick, fast attack, release around 50ms. Makes the track lunge without losing the low end.
- artist: Robin S — A New York vocalist who delivered a performance so airtight it’s been sampled, remixed, and re-sung for three decades. The tone sits in a pocket that still cuts through a busy mix.
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🔮 Producer Horoscope (for fun) — Your snare will think it’s the lead tonight. Let it solo for a minute, then bring it back down. The mix will survive. Now drop that 522 kick under your FM bass and let it thump.
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