xilenthimself

I bet 50$ on Poland.

I've made enough tracks in the past to be able to tell which ones are my personal varourites when it comes to sound. Whenever I get an idea, I usually open that older project and treat it as a template that contains all my EQs, compressing, bus-ing and channel groups already in place. This reassures me that whatever sound I put into a track that has a certain amount of inserts already in it - will sound very good from the very start. That way I keep the previous mixdown coherent with whatever's coming next (cause you don't wanna end up with an EP or an album that has tracks that sound completely different when it comes to low-end, mid or loudness, etc). I'm also very impatient and I have to hear what the final track will sound like even when I'm still at 5% of making it, that's why the constant tweaking of a mixdown is essential for me as I go. Apart from the effects you mentioned, I also use a lot of spatial/dimentional stuff to widen the sound. Lastly, apart from sidechain comes ducking of certain frequencies, for example when you have a massively synth-packed track, adding a full female vocal line to it will require getting rid of certain frequencies from the group of synths to make the lyrics audible, and so on. Thanks for the question!

I've been a big fan of the Silent Hill franchise since I was 9. My initial idea was to call myself Silent as a tribute to the games, but I realised it's a bit of a broad word, so I just replaced the first letter with whatever was closest on the keyboard. Or at least that's how I remember it...

I love to resample. When it comes to melodic glitches like in Falling Apart, I do a lot of foley and make noises to the microphone myself, then pitch up or down, stretch (Paulstretch - not reverb) and boost, right after I chop it up to harmonic pieces. I enjoy using SugarBytes Tornado mixed with Dblue_Glitch and Vocodex on the inserts of that. This kind of mixture combined with FabFilter Timeless is sometimes tough to control but when done right - produces really good effects!

Unless something comes over to kick 'trap' out of the picture like it itself did to dubstep & glitchhop somewhat, I'd say... Twerk. Twerk everywhere unfortunately. Nah, I don't know really. Worst thing is that there's a lot of artists getting mass produced by huge labels that are only meant to be mascots dancing onstage while they play ghost-produced tracks made by a guy in Netherlands somewhere. If it keeps going like this and people won't create some sort of music revolution fronteer that would start appreciating music as it was appreciated from 60's till 00's, it will keep going into the more and more wrong, I'm talking nicki-minaj_-_Anaconda-wrong. But that's just my opinion.