Quote from: RxD on February 11, 2016, 04:50:37 am

Why dont you believe in urself? just because its getting a little tough you're going to start doubting urself?  this world is full of people who give up be one of the very few who doesnt .understand that in order for you to have anything of great value you must suffer and endore

It's just real hard to listen to guys like Madeon, Seven Lions, and Virtual Riot and then listen to my own music. How can you expect someone to not doubt themselves when they're going up against these guys? You can understand that can't you? Don't get me wrong I know that these things take time but if you enjoy what you do should there really be any sort of suffering involved? It's not that I'm suffering but I just feel regret because I've spent all this time on music without much to show for it because none of my tracks sound professional enough yet to release.

That's a sign dude. 6 years is quite enough to get nearly as good at music as some Madeon or Seven Lions or VR.  Especially with how technology and internet developed recently.
You should reconsider what you're doing wrong in music production and find more efficient ways to get better. It's hard though. Many people improve slower than they could because they make lots of mistakes and they don't know actually what to do to improve their skill.

Also each year it gets harder to quit this.
Also I feel the same way as you sometimes but I can't quit anymore because it's too late

I'm trying to bring my mixes to the next level, I understand the basics of setting my faders and using EQ as tools to level out my mix but I find it really hard to grasp the concept of placing my sounds in a room, more specifically bigger rooms. From my understanding, using reverb not only places a sound in the mix further in the back but also the reverb should create a "room" that the sound bounces in.

To place your sounds "in a room" you need to think like they are in some space. Use EQ to cut unnecessary highs, especially for some distant sounds with long reverbs. Panning might be useful too.
Don't add reverb to the sound if that reverb is masked in the mix. You can use the noise gate to get rid of masked reverb tails.

You can use reverb creatively and try to compress, filter, distort it and resample and layer with your samples. In case you have some complex arrangement.

I think it's important to lowpass sounds in the mix (if you think that sound doesn't really need that bright high end). Because leaving all tops on all sounds as they were might make the top end cluttered and the mix would lack clarity.

IMO, boosting frequencies is fine if that's necessary. Of course that would add color to the sound but it's all good if it works for the mix. 

Good skill in EQing comes with a lot of practice. If you're beginner it's hard to distinguish and find those problem frequencies you need to cut. But frequency analysers might help