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WIPs / Old tune I found on my computer
« on: June 20, 2016, 01:37:17 am »
https://soundcloud.com/notsobad/yezzur

Think I might still have the project file somewhere...

Any suggestions how I should finish it? Or change stuff?

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Levels
« on: June 10, 2016, 04:53:31 pm »
Cool, thanks for the feedback guys.

Just read over my question/query/confusion, wasn't the clearest Marrow Machines I agree haha.

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Mixing/Mastering / Levels
« on: June 09, 2016, 06:02:35 pm »
Hi guys, have a question regarding the volume of tracks.

I've seen some "how to mix" tutorials from all over the internet and a lot of them start their mixdowns with the whole 'faders down' approach (sorting the levels out at the start) which is fair enough. Whatever suits.

And in more than one occasion I've seen people start to use the EQ after they have said that they sorted out the levels. I know the levels is a flexible kind of tool that you always seem to touch throughout the mix but some of these people think the volumes or levels of the tracks are done and dusted thanks to the old 'faders down' method. I've seen these people not touching the levels after adjusting the EQ which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me since you are changing the volume of the signal when EQ'ing.

Unfortunately I can't think of a source that takes this approach but I remember learning this approach from some tutorial videos and living by it for a while and then realizing it doesn't make much sense.

Am I just confused or am I making some sort of sense?








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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: F**k S**t Up plug-ins
« on: January 29, 2016, 07:28:27 pm »
Valhalla UberMod is ridiculously flexible for messing shit up.

Twisted Tools do some really good stuff.

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WIPs / Re: WIP 90s style house track
« on: January 26, 2016, 03:09:55 pm »
I really like this! Just my sort of style really. Really like the vocal it sounds great!  One thing though, I found that the bass is quite unclear, maybe throw it up one octave, and if it sounds too high, through a nice sine sub under it and turn it down a bit. And making sure it's in mono can really help.

Maybe try syncopating the bass notes more to the original chords? Adding some variation within the bassline can really add more groove.

Here is a great article that I'd highly recommend for bassline grooves:
https://www.attackmagazine.com/technique/passing-notes/passing-notes-disco-house-basslines/

Other than that I like it the way it is.

Keep it up man. :)

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Quick trick to make your track louder.
« on: January 26, 2016, 02:40:33 pm »
nice, I've struggled with this for a while and got close to it a few weeks ago.

I wonder if adding an exciter, eq, before this would work?

Or is the idea just to make the MIX and only THE MIX, louder?

Every context is different so I couldn't really say. I generally only use an EQ as a scanner on my master, say if I cut away like 6dB of the mids and it sounds cleaner, I would adjust the instruments within the mix to fit/balance better, you know what I mean? Rather than effecting the whole signal.

Well the idea behind that video is to make the mix louder as a whole yes. And as djparted recently stated, maybe that is where multiband comes in, to zoom in on specific bands in terms of loudness.

Getting sick of the word 'loudness' already, currently telling myself to be quiet. Ironic

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Quick trick to make your track louder.
« on: January 26, 2016, 02:30:10 pm »
Well whether you're the best mixing/mastering engineer in the world, this still has it's uses. Perhaps I could have rephrased the title a bit better, outlining that it's compression and not much of a trick.

I agree that you wouldn't do this before sending it off to a professional mastering engineer. This is however a handy method of getting a loud mix if your not going to send it off for mastering. Just putting this chain on the master may be far less destructive than you fiddling around with EQ's and other things.

I'll experiment tonight with some multiband to try and achieve the same effect, thanks for the tip! :)


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Mixing/Mastering / Quick trick to make your track louder.
« on: January 25, 2016, 11:18:39 pm »
Hi guys, stumbled across this trick by Bobby Owsinski called the 'Hot and Loud trick'. I reckon a lot of people here could benefit from this for a quick type of master.

This trick might cover the common goal of loudness and competing with other tracks in terms of loudness, while retaining some sort of dynamics.

Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J7ABfkfKC4

Note: Check out Bobby Owsinski's 101 mixing tricks, very helpful. :)

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You Might Like... / Re: What producer blows your mind
« on: January 25, 2016, 12:19:57 am »
Boards of Canada, Kiasmos, Justice, Jon Hopkins, Tycho. There are so many!

One I haven't seen here is Quantic, look up 'Time is the Enemy' and 'Not So Blue'.

Oh and Djrum!!!! Holy shit his sampling is just crazy. Mixed so well, personal favourites of mine is Watermark and Plantain.
He has like mad textures and really interesting rhythmic motifs.

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Reverb Processing
« on: January 25, 2016, 12:05:34 am »
Thanks for the reply!

The tip about the width control seems to make a lot of sense, I remember constantly putting really wide tracks into the reverb buss and then making the reverb wider than the original synth and it sounded like absolute muck most of the time.

I've always wondered about adding too much reverbs that are different to one another, would this not create an unrealistic space? I know it can work in favour of depth but other than that, what difference does it present?

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Mixing/Mastering / Reverb Processing
« on: January 24, 2016, 11:25:43 pm »
Hi guys, first post here.

Since there is a lot of EDM heads around here, do you guys think reverb plays a big part in the drop? I feel like when I'm flicking through presets, when I remove the internal reverb from the plugin, a lot of the power is lost in some cases. So I've started to experiment with reverb on a send channel and I am getting great results. Does anybody have any tips when processing reverb separately? I've been applying it in Mid/side mode and it's sounding pretty cool in some contexts. Also I've recently discovered that scooping out some of the mids and having it on the sides can be helpful mix wise. (Probably a very basic tip but whatever!)

I've always wondered about the reverb in this tune also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG2Fm-7kgTQ

The reverb is like sidechained to the synth I know, but it almost has a more distinct pitch to it?

So if anyone has any tips/tricks on reverb processing/manipulation whatever, do share!



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