be careful having that bass synth on the 1 beat its covering the kick up use a bit more sidechain or delay the attack so the kick isnt being covered up. then add a high percussion layer on the 1 beat to makeup for the attack delay

killer track regardless.

this is really cool. i think there are some minor mixing changes you could do - but honestly its really nice sounding. it reminded me of his live show 

What do you think of the remix for What So Not? We got to show this to him in Sacramento during his sound check, he said he loved it 

if you really like it you can always leave a <3 on HypeM

http://hypem.com/track/2fn1f/Joyzu+-+Like+A+Melody+feat.+Olivia+Reid+(Original

hey man! i really dig the first one in my opinion, the bass synth during the drop on the 1st beat's is a little too harsh/loud for compared to the softness of the response synths, but thats really just my opinion and dont think it makes the song bad, i still like it a lot.

hey guys!

As a part of my sound engineering courses at school, my professor has asked us to create a 10 song portfolio by the end of the year which displays the knowledge we have learned over the course of the class in regards to mixing and mastering.

This is where you all come in

Feel free to send me songs of yours that you would like to have mixed and mastered. I have been doing it for 5 years now and am taking upper level education courses so this wont be a waste of your time!

I would prefer to receive full length songs (no WIP's/demos/idea reels) so I could potentially use it in my portfolio.

Dont worry - I am not posting these songs online anywhere. The only location these songs will be held is on a thumb drive that me and my professor can listen to together so you dont have to worry about any pre-release leaks (if you are worried about that).

Anyways .. I am really excited to get working on some of your guys' stuff!

Send your content here: joyzucontact@gmail.com
 -- -- -- SUBJECT: Portfolio Submission -- -- -- if it is not titled as such, i may end up deleting it because i receive a lot of spam promo emails.
 -- send a .zip with your stems inside
** send me a little bit about the song, what sort of sound are you going for? anything you want me to make the focus of the song? etc.

ps - i will send mixed/mastered tracks back to you for you to upload if you end up releasing it

I'm sure you've gotten a good answer by now, most of them are hitting it right on the nail.. but heres my explanation anyways. I've learned the most dumb-downed version of the basic compression functions and it helped me to understand it very well.

Say you have a drum loop you want to compress (they are usually really dynamic [kick,snare,percussion all at different volume levels])... compression will help to level all of them out to a common dB level.

1. drag the threshold level down to the point where you would like the compressor to start compressing (reducing the volume) the input signal (drum loop).

2. set your ratio according to how hard or soft you would like your compression to act (obviously.. the larger the ratio.. the more compression will happen and thus sound bad)

3. you can now play with attack and release setting to help clean up your compression. Say you dont want to compress the kick drum impact, increase the attack so the compressor will have a small delay before starting its functions, so it will "skip" over the kick drum hit. The release is simply how long you want the compressor to reduce volume for. If you have the release all the way up, it will compress basically the entire kick drum signal. The short the release, the fast the compression stops.

^^ if you are compressing a drum loop, ideally you wouldnt want a super long release time because it will start compressing every instrument in the drum loop and create a piece of shit drum loop lol.

heres a visial example...lol

           |\   |\
input: |  \_| \_

*compress*

output: |\_|\_

it reduced dynamic range of a signal to create a more uniform volume level