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Beat Fights Fight #346: attila vs. Armani  [Fight Ends: 4 days, 13 hours, 50 minutes left]

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Iron Keys

    Warzone Beat Battle - June 17-21, 2025

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

    Warzone Beat Battle - June 17-21, 2025

    So finally @BiggChev has made a Timbaland style beat
  5. 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.
  6. 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...
  7. 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.
  8. 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)
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. 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...
  14. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    The funny thing was I thought "aren't 2G's snares usually a bit snappier anyway?" So I felt like the mix/snare choice was like a conscious one, ironically it was. Yeah re Dre mixes... apparently my mixes are naturally a bit that way, I've hit engineers with non dre style beats, and they're like...
  15. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    Overall, @2GooD Productions @Iron Keys and @Armani in the top places of a Dre theme... The world makes sense.
  16. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    @Armani good beat young bro. I was a bit like 'hmm y u putting in di Storch strings tho!?' which is also fair, because Dre had the Storch collabs back then too. Beat sounding a lot better than when I initially listened to it during voting.
  17. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    @BiggChev --- oh shit, this was yours!!! Great work, bro. Honestly. I thought this was going to be Delta's potentially. You did really well at getting that old school quality on the kick and the bass --- can you tell me more about how you got that vibe? This is a quality fucking beat, great...
  18. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    @2GooD Productions Congrats on the win, brother. Really love the main piano/orchestral stabs vibe, think you nailed that pretty brilliantly there for that era/style. Knew it was you immediately and said 'this is my competition.' Genuinely enjoyed this beat. Also loved what you did with the...
  19. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

  20. Iron Keys

    Beat This! Competition - June 11-12, 2025

    When you do Storch I will.100% win that because Storch beats are cheesing. And I cheese them hard. Me 1st place Arvin second.
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