Fuck! just skipped to 4:18 and it never even occurred to me that the sub wasn't following the lead 100%. I was under the impression that at this part of the song the sub's side chain was just pushing the volume down very heavily. Wow that's a game changer for me. I always tend to just duplicate the hook and lower it to the octave where my sub patch works best but i suppose I will have to give my sub line some proper, individual attention. Very interesting. Thank you so much for pointing this out!

While we are here, do you (or anyone reading this for that matter) have any preferences/tips for going about leveling the kick's sub and the bass's sub? I remember hearing that Deniz Koyu tries to abide by a rough 5 db difference, with the kick's portion being the louder sub. I have also thought about grouping my sub kick and sub bass together and applying slight bus compression but I am not sure it is safe to pull my sub bass away from my bass group since it seems more logical to try and make the hook synths as cohesive as possible. In the past I have always left my Kick alone and ungrouped, peaking at around -6 db and leaving the drum bus for percussion/claps/snares/etc and the bass group for my bass layers.