Zvukoborod: After a dense forest, the desert plain seems endless.
Shuffling voice: Water will be gone, food too,
and only hunger and thirst will remain.
Zvukoborod: I need to cheer up, or else strange thoughts
climb into my head. Wow! What is it here?
LoFi in the HiFi paradigm
When creating a modern dance sound,
sometimes we have to resort to rather unobvious decisions,
such as aging the sound of individual components of the mix.
In what situations it may be necessary
today we will consider.
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Let's get started.
Listen to the sound of a snare drum.
It is too bright, too active.
Jumping out of the mix a little.
We will use the LoFi plugin
to dampen the sound of the snare drum a bit.
LoFi by Nembrini Audio.
Let’s listen to it.
Increasing the value of the Distortion parameter.
The snare drum gets louder 
and falls out of the mix even more.
This is the opposite of what I'm trying to achieve.
Adding saturation.
I like the sound, but the volume of the snare is too high.
And now the sound seems appropriate.
Let's listen to before processing.
The snare drum is too bright and lacks density.
After processing, the sound is softer,
but at the same time more full-bodied.
Great.
While listening, I noticed
that the hats also fall out of the mix.
Let's listen again and pay attention to the hats.
Really slightly fall out of the mix.
To dampen their sound, we will use the help of a bit crasher.
Let’s take Decimort from D16.
It is available in two versions
as a regular VST, AU, AAX plugin
and as a Rack Extension.
We are in Reason, so we'll use the version for Reason.
Right. This is closer to what I need.
Adding jitter.
The sound became crispier.
I will leave the 6-bit resolution.
Reducing the frequency deviation
so that the sound is not too aggressive.
Adding dithering
so that the filling of the high-frequency spectrum
is stronger.
It seems like the truth, but, of course,
I will not leave the sound in this form.
We will mix the processed signal with the unprocessed one.
No processing.
With the processing.
I decided to cut off the extra low frequencies.
No processing.
With the processing.
The sound is more muffled and grainier.
Listen to the mix.
Hats rhythm sounds good,
but at the same time it doesn't sound too annoying.
No processing.
And with the processing.
Sounds more suitable for the mix.
Let’s consider another device
exclusive to Reason.
It is Audiomatic Retro Transformer.
I will add it to the synthesizer track.
Choosing a HiFi mode.
In this mode, Audiomatic adds
such a light sizzle at high frequencies.
Before processing.
After.
Less bass,
rustling sound.
Listen to the mix. 
Let's turn off all three plugins 
and listen to where we started and where we came to.
It turns out an interesting situation,
that as if worsening the sound of several elements of the mix,
we made the sound of the mix better overall.
More contrast, more separation of the individual components
of the mix between each other and thereby more interesting,
more atmospheric and more complete
sound of the mix as a whole.
This is exactly what we sought.
Friends, do you use any degraders in your work?
If so, which ones? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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