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Mixing/Mastering / Re: What are some things you guys do to humanize your tracks?
« on: June 12, 2016, 09:07:06 pm »
The cleanest way to do this is to quantize everything and then manually slightly adjust each midi note to be slightly off. Some might say this is tedious, but since you move each one separately, you're guarenteed to get a "human" feel. Human feel is just slight error, since we aren't capable of keeping rhythm exactly. Do the same with velocity, although there are techniques for certain instruments. EX: You have a snare hit on 2 and 4, making the 4 hit at a less volume will give it a more human feel.

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Mixing/Mastering / Mixing an arp on top of a drop synth
« on: June 12, 2016, 09:01:27 pm »
So I'm working on a track that has a lead arp over a saw synth, and was just curious what methods you guys used to make the Arp sit on top without losing too much of the main synth. I was assuming for sidechain you'd want a quick attack and short release, since the arp will be playing a lot of notes. I'll leave some references and the WIP below, in general it's the same idea as mixing a lead on top of a chord/synth but there's a lot going on which is stumping me.

Ref #1: Time 1:14
https://soundcloud.com/just-a-gent/loaded-feat-melissa-ramsay

Ref #2: 2nd drop 3:10
https://soundcloud.com/dontloveme/hurry-rmx?in=officialjupe/sets/hurry-remixes

WIP:
https://soundcloud.com/biohmusic/bioh-x-blank-new-collabo-new-direction-save/s-X0L5D



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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Record label question!!!! please help
« on: June 12, 2016, 08:34:30 pm »
Quote from: Mussar on May 27, 2016, 04:04:56 pm
Practically everyone, to be quite frank. This is standard operating procedure in the music industry. Every single part of the release that you cannot personally provide, from the songwriting to the mixing/mastering to the cover art, is money that the record label will have to spend on you.

This is the truest thing. A label wants you to be the complete package. Less work for them? Good, big labels are crazy busy. It's all about how much you can do for them, so maybe dabble in graphics and marketing and start learning things over time. You can do a lot for yourself. I was able to gain over 30,000 yt followers from strictly internet marketing when I was 15 y/o making videos about video games.

In short I wouldn't jump the gun and go w this label early on.

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Mixing/Mastering / Mixing and Mastering servies
« on: March 23, 2016, 09:26:09 am »
I've been trying to find a 2nd pair of ears to give my EP a mix/master. Although I could do it myself, I'm not that great at mixing. Most of my experience comes from everything but engineering (although its not really "engineering"). Anyways, I'm not trying to go to monarch or ADG, although I could if I heard some real feedback about them. But preferably a freelancer, something more personal. I know thats tough to find, so really anything at this point helps. Mat linked a website that does this same style of service but it was soooo expensive, looking for like anything under $100 a track. Is that unreasonable?  :-[

If anyone here is a pr0 mixer and wants to make some $$ hmu on sc or twitter, heres an ex of a track:
https://soundcloud.com/biohofficial/ohoh/s-F3ZQf

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Sound Design / quality piano synth's/kontakt libraries
« on: March 05, 2016, 06:37:02 am »
Never posted before but I figured this was the right section for my question.

I've played piano for a long time, I'm trying to get to the point where I can afford to record real piano's w/ a high quality mic....but I'm not exactly there yet. Was just curious what you guys thought were some good piano VST's/patches/kontakt libraries, I know NI did The Giant (which I have) but theres only a handful of good piano's in there. A reference for a dope piano would be this track but I have a feeling the mixing is what really brought out the piano in this one.

https://soundcloud.com/marshmellomusic/bounce

Appreciate any feedback  :)

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Sending stems, i need a lot of help
« on: February 29, 2016, 06:40:17 am »
If you haven't already, try splice. It literally syncs to your computer so that when I save a project I'm working on, it uploads it to Splice Studio and the person I'm collabing with can get the stems directly from there since the project is synced to the web. It makes more sense when you do it yourself, but me and a friend have been working on a track this last week over splice and it works perfectly.

https://splice.com

Ex: of what it looks like
https://gyazo.com/b5f1901471a8dc71800728fe6596d628

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