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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: Song structure & arrangement
« on: January 06, 2016, 07:55:14 pm »
As quickly as you can, build out the arrangement. Even if you have sounds that you arent fond of, make sure to finish the idea of the track and then go back in and fix the sounds. Like JPJed above me said, it always helps if you have a reference track where you can mark where each of the sections of the song are. This allows you to not dilly dally around where these 8 bars should go or not etc. Each genre has general guidelines for these elements, it is now our job to push the boundaries and find interesting and engaging variations of them

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WIPs / Re: My bass is always muddy and sloppy
« on: January 06, 2016, 06:34:49 pm »
Quote from: mcgold on January 06, 2016, 04:14:19 pm
Quote from: Miles Dominic on January 06, 2016, 04:00:16 pm
Using a dedicated sub to play under 100-120 hz will clean up your low end a lot. Eq'ing your leads and chords properly so the mid-bass can sit between the sub and leads/chords is super important too!

I've been wondering about this a lot with my recent productions....is this the general school of thought? I find that it's definitely easier to control low-end dynamics when I have just my simple sine or triangle wave cutoff around 100hz and nothing else but the kick is allowed down there, and then the energy of the "bass" in the track comes from a mid-bass around 100-500hz which has the sub either cut out of it or didnt exist originally.

Is this how most people do their bass or is there some merit to the alternative: having just one bass patch that has a sub oscillator carrying the low end?

This is what I do. A simple sine sub bass to sit below 100Hz and have only the kick down there with it. I cut the frequencies of the mid/main bass above that and even HP at 100-125Hz to ensure nothing else goes down there. It makes it pretty clean and youre able to isolate the sub to manipulate it much easier

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