The mix is super weird. I cant really tell which parts are yours and which are stems if this is a remix. The drums are super quiet, like absurdly quiet. It makes the track feel really weird with all the sidechain.

I'd suggest balancing the synths and drums.

Alrighty, thanks for the feedback, only stems are the guitar pluck thing & the vocal bit

I realize this song and competition are from a while ago, but I got bored & pulled it into the DAW, so here's where I'm at after today...

Well, my experience has been something like this...

When I first started out I paid no attention to any of that, but the more I got into music the more I read up about proper techniques & all this online. After reading online I began trying to mix, the understanding I was getting from online was to give everything its own space, as you said, I would try to achieve this through EQ and many other ways, but it would still never work right.

I've personally found that my major problem was sound selection. I would choose too many things with strong harmonics in the same place on the frequency spectrum and when I would try to EQ things out on one sound or another it would kill the sound & would sound no good anymore, but just leaving it makes the mix a mess.

My best advice from personal experience is first and foremost make sure the sound selection works. If it doesn't work together no amount of EQ/panning or whatever will help in fixing it. That's my opinion anyways!

Also, depending on what DAW you use, check out splice for some more professional sounding tracks & download them to have a look at the mixing work on them, or google for templates or projects of professionally mixed tracks. Seeing what goes on inside one may help as well!

All the best!

Hey guys in this video starts at 44.24 https://youtu.be/9Q0l9NBFQug Dyro give tips about mess with high frequencies but i didn't understand  Could somebody explain me please ?

He's using low frequencies (the subs of the kick in the vid), he sends the kick to a bus and high cuts it right down to the subs pretty well, then uses this bus to sidechain the highs from my understanding, I don't know the whole theory behind it, but apparently it gives a bit of distortion.

hey fellas, so yeah as the title states I was just wondering if there was a way to make it so the envelope doesn't reset on each keypress (in sylenth). The effect i'm trying to recreate can be found here (the lead synth):

https://soundcloud.com/porter-robinson/porter-robinson-flicker-mat-zo-remix#t=2:12

I realize i can simply layer the main synth with an LFO vst modulating the pitch, but i'd much prefer to be able to do it within the synth. thanks in advance! <3

What exactly are you trying to modulate with the envelope? May help me understand what effect you're going for a little better, or if you're lucky maybe mat will tell you himself.

Quote from: Shew on January 08, 2016, 12:26:23 am

feel free to add this into the OP if you want... just a useful tip for beginners on EQ sweeping to find those pesky frequencies.

Set a bell curve with a high Q and headphones on (so you can hear the frequencies while you sweep) then, when you find the annoying one just flip the gain from really high to really low.

About this EQ sweep. Would you do it moderately slow or fast from 20 to 20 kHz?

Take your time with it, you should notice once you near problematic frequencies, zero in on them a bit better then go to work with it.

Im not to familiar with this genre so i could be wrong but I think your kick needs a little more punch to come out a little more through your mix. everything else sounds really good though.

Yeah its not even layered or sidechained very well, more so just thrown in to get a quick sequence laid down, could be a whole different kick in the end!

dude this is sick! Just try and sidechain your main saws, maybe add some reeverb. Also maybe a more complex drum loop would make it better. other than that, great track bro

Thanks man, appreciate it. Just started it so there's still plenty to be done, saws need to be fixed cause they sound like shit to me yet, amongst other things hah, but anyways, appreciate the feedback!