From Rough Mix to Polished: Bus Rider + Channel Surfer for Techno

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"How I use Bus Rider and Channel Surfer on a rolling techno patch. I start from a rough mix, zero out Bus Rider, and build the mastering chain step by step: limiter, multiband compression, crossovers, release for pumping, and saturation. Then I go through what each Channel Surfer is doing on the drone, vocal, and noise layers, including EQ, filtering, drive, delay, reverb, and kick-triggered sidechain ducking.

Bus Rider is a 4HP stereo end-of-chain mastering module with an isolator EQ, multiband compression, a lookahead limiter, and saturation. Channel Surfer is a 4HP stereo channel strip with a 3-band EQ, performance filters with drive, 9 effects, and a sidechain ducker. Both are $299, in stock and shipping now.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:36 The patch
0:54 Bus Rider: bypass vs. on
1:39 Balancing the raw mix
2:21 Zeroing out Bus Rider
2:53 Setting limiter gain
3:29 Multiband compression: lows
4:08 Multiband compression: mids and highs
4:56 Setting the high crossover
5:52 Limiter release and pumping
6:58 Saturation
7:49 Gluing the mix together
8:30 Limiting for techno: listen to the kick
9:11 Channel Surfer on each voice
9:39 Drone: filtering, delay, and sidechain ducking
11:34 Vocal sample: filtering, drive, and delay
13:06 Noise sample: CV into the low-pass filter, plus reverb
14:47 Full mix
15:09 Outro

Gear in this video
WMD Bus Rider: [link]
WMD Channel Surfer (x3): https://wmdevices.com/products/channe...
WMD Voltera: [link]
Battering Ram: [link]
Cosmic Debris: [link]
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