I’m a little confused as to what you’re asking here. Are you referring to an Instrument rack device or an EQ8 device? I’m assuming it’s one of the racks since there’s no way to delete part of one of Live’s built-in native plugins, but I don’t want to make assumptions before getting clarification.

Accidentally misplaced a component of the EQ Eight device. Drums, Formant, and Instrument remain within the device. How can I reset this device and recover what I misplaced/lost if I forgot what it was called. I also have a great deal of samples I fear I might lose if I try to reset something.

Thanks

cheers,

Pieter

I export the sound to a wav file and import it into Live for further mangling.

That’s a really nice, lush track. Just FYI: The traditional advice is to keep kicks and bass sounds as mono as possible (straight down the middle of the mix) for a number of reasons such as compatibility with cutting to vinyl and club sound systems. If neither of these are likely to be issues for you (they never are for me), go for it

There are all kinds of techniques for achieving a wide kick sound, so here are 2 hints that you can mix and match until you get something that sounds nice:

1) Use two identical kick sounds, both panned the same amount to the left and right, respectively. Lower the gain on both kicks until they meld into a nice overall sound that comes across as one gigantic, wide kick. For extra fun times, try subtly detuning them from one another, or try messing with their phase interactions by shifting one of the copies a few ms. forward or backward from the other kick on the timeline. Be careful with this technique, because even a ms. or 2 can make the difference between a really cool, wide sound that sits well in the mix and sonic mud.

2) Since you are clearly going for a very atmospheric kick sound, don’t be afraid to experiment with reverb on one or both kicks. Start with the same settings on both reverb units, but then try differentiating their decay times from one another.

There are plenty of other ways to go about this, and most traditional mixing engineers would tell you to steer well clear of these techniques. I’m not one of those guys. That being said, be sure to read up on phase cancellation so you’re aware of the downsides!

I was wondering what kind of stereo effect is used on this kick:
http://soundcloud.com/vvv/beautiful-life-vvv-remix

I’ve been trying to make sounds like that, with a great sound of depth, but been unable to do so…

Thanks for your time!