That's a pretty impressive list of equipment man. I want to eventually get the UAD and powercore too.

About compressing bass and kick together, you need to sidechain. That means the compressor doesn't bother the kick, but the kick's signal triggers compression on the bass. That way when the bass is coming in without the kick it'll still be nice and loud. If you just bus it and run a compressor over the kick and bass you'll lower both of their levels. You want the kick to stick out. Now separately before it goes through the bus channel you can compress and manipulate it to whatever you want. That's just me, though.

Welcome to the forums, and nice to meet ya.

-Aaron

1176SE is a reduced version of 1176LN. First of all, I suggest using the full version to preserve the sound quality. Second, for drums I usually use LA2A leveling amplifier that can be set as a compressor. It will give your drums smooth yet punchy sound. 1176 you can use for your leads, since there will be no pumping effect during the compression but the sound will all of a sudden jump out of a mix and become more prominent and polished. Just play with the atack, release and ratio values to achieve the desired effect. Listen to the end result for the best sound. Both of these compressors are very well suited for dance music since they're easy to set up but have a great sound. When combining kick and bass together use a sidechain as explained earlier and then apply a separate LA2A just to the drum part.
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I have some question to you uad-1 users. First of all are you happy with it and how much processing power does it have? How many reverb plugins can you run simultaniously to reach maximum capacity of the card? Can you post a dry sample and one with the uad reverb applied on it?

Thanx.

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Just the other day, I finished mixing my latest song. I used three instances of Dreamverb, and 1 instance of 1176LN compressor to process some of the elements. This took about 70% DSP power of my card. I could have run possibly another instance of Dreamverb and 2 of 1176 without touching any of the native processing power. My CPU load was close to 0%. The card rocks and if you know anything about setting up reverbs, this is a dream come true. For examples check out the music on my website. All of it was run through UAD-1 card.

Thanks for the info, you're site is offline at the moment, but I'll check that out later. I'm looking for some extra dsp power, preferably integrated in my DAW. So the UAD-1 seems a good choice instead of hardware fx-units, but I'm still in a bit of a doubt.

Red Room.

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Thanks for your replies guys! Sorry I didn't get a chance to say "thank you" earlier

-REMIDI