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  1. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 25-26, 2025

    It's about finding a balance. Sometimes it depends on my mood. After all, a dope beat is a dope beat and it's about making that dope fucking record. However, it is a battle, so if it comes down to me choosing between two beats, I'll typically lean towards the one that took more "skill" or...
  2. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 25-26, 2025

  3. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 25-26, 2025

    This was what I went for (vote cast) :guillotine:
  4. Iron Keys

    Lord Finesse - The SP1200 Project: Sounds & Frequencies In Technicolor ('25)

    Wait, what's going on here... *grabs headphones*
  5. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 25-26, 2025

    Studio One it seems...
  6. Iron Keys

    Warzone Beat Battle - June 17-21, 2025

    Wow. Thankyou, gentlemen. Monitoring switched up a little so wasn't sure how this mix would translate. Glad to hear it slapped in the ways I hoped it would. Think I could have gotten it even better still
  7. Iron Keys

    Warzone Beat Battle - June 17-21, 2025

    Congrats brother @BiggChev I thought that was 2G's beat! Deffo not giving Timbo vibes tho.
  8. Iron Keys

    Warzone Beat Battle - June 17-21, 2025

    Great compliments. And that'd be a hell of a fucking gauntlet to battle through. That's when you have your illmuzik on the EXTREME difficulty setting.
  9. Iron Keys

    Warzone Beat Battle - June 17-21, 2025

    Unlucky, but, you can still make it to the bronze placement. Sounds like a relatively tuff battle, a few good beats in there.
  10. Iron Keys

    Warzone Beat Battle - June 17-21, 2025

    When your tea's gone cold and you're wondering why
  11. Iron Keys

    Warzone Beat Battle - June 17-21, 2025

    So finally @BiggChev has made a Timbaland style beat
  12. Iron Keys

    15 years ago....

    I saw your name yesterday in the chat and went away and did a double take! You best not just be teasing us and sticking the tip in. Be back and be making beats! Hope life is good brother. Welcome back, good to be seeing the illOG circle regrouping! Fade's elite army of henchmen.
  13. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    This sometimes... but, sometimes despite it bringing the velocities closer, sometimes there still remains character differences in the hits that still give it a distinct quality, especially if the hats are live or from velocity layered drums. But in all cases, it's still very worth paying...
  14. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    Fucking expert. This is where I really think you nailed it - the decision to approach your mix etc from this perspective, is why your record really shone. Everything you detailed before this, ultimately arrives at/from that specific decision. Big.
  15. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    Yeah, if I get to the end of my mix and it's still sounding too polite or clinical, Softube tape is coming out. (Fade usually compliments my low end when I used that historically)
  16. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    You hit your 2bus hot like me then ha. Yeah, often my master meter is hitting +5dB, I check the lufs, it's like close to where i want it, just gotta put on my master clipper/whatever, which sometimes introduces a bit of nasties, but then you can usually do some subtle adjustments or drop a...
  17. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    :facts::this: Pretty similar to what I be doing. I get to my master bus now and get upset that I don't need to put my saturation on it... 'cause I've usually achieved that all in the mix now. But I do miss slapping my tape/tubes etc and all this clevel mid/side shit and whatever the fuck else I...
  18. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    I do love a bit of crunch. Only place I don't accept it on is my ... strings, piano, vocals. (unless intentional buzz on vocal). Yeah, compression for me is a very specific intention now. I'm using it more for controlling depth/rhythm. Which is some real subtle shit, which, I'm still learning...
  19. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    I think it also might be due to how advanced/experienced we are now - I think that referencing back when I was shit probably would have helped a lot more hahah 'cause take for example some guys here, I feel like if they just bumped a record next to theres when mixing, they'd be like 'shit, my...
  20. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    Yeah I'm a sucker for not doing so too... I did it a few times when I upgraded my monitoring, and I think that helped me understand how my monitoring should sound or how my mix should sound, so since then I often just be going straight at it, as I know what I'm expecting to hear during my cross...
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