Not bad.

Everything sounds like it has it's own space.
My own personal taste: after the saws hit, you have a reverb trail that sounds weird. I'd cut that.

Woof.

I know you don't need to always stay in key and can use borrowed notes but my ears are so confused as to what they are listening to. I feel...disoriented.

Isn't that process just called 'eq'ing' and 'stereowidth manipulation'? What IO'm trying to say is that the description of the problem is half of the solution.

I don't know which samples you are talking about, there's no audio file but you can describe what's the problem, so use some tools to get rid of that problem; cut the lows with an eq and make it less wide with M/S processing.

Toms are bassy indeed and will always fight with the bassline. But it's better to deal with it in the mix than starting with thin samples.

If eq doesn't work to get rid of too much bass on the toms, try a multiband compressor; bracket the bassy sound in one band and lower it, like a volume slider.

Well...I wouldn't have created this thread if I didn't already try EQing and lowering the stereo width haha.

But I can always try again!

Whenever I want to use toms, they sound terrible. Either too bassy or just too wide.

Is it just bad sample selection or is there certain processing to get them to sound punchy and centered rather than boomy and wide?

Quote from: Xan on January 20, 2016, 03:38:06 pm

Quote from: JayDBe on January 20, 2016, 03:19:42 pm

It's actually very good for a first song, I really love the style your going to. The "Woodblock pluck" (or how you wanna call it) starting at 2:00 is a bit off place in my opinion, it doesn't have to be there for me. Just like the downpart, it's not in style with the rest of your track.

My advice: listen to some tracks from Fehrplay, Grum, Capa,... to get some inspiration to finish it. Don't worry about the mixdown too much, it will come later

I completely disagree with the 'not in style'. MY advice: never try and conform your songs to a style. Be experimental and try different things. I think the down tempo actually works very well as a nice change of pace.

Fair enough, everyone has his own opinion As long as he's happy with the downpart, I'm good 

Yes they do. But since he's new, I wouldn't want to say: do it this way or that way!
Give him/her time to figure out what style they like. For example: I cannot stay put on one idea in a song for too long because it bores me. All my tracks have multiple  ideas and that's how I like it. Others hate it. But that's just a taste thing.

Your bass on the down tempo part really lacks clarity/bite. In my opinion: If you strip out some layers layer and make it less legato, you can get a good groove going. Just a thought. The rhythm in that part is pretty straight forward. I like the glitching though.
But I like your arrangement there, nice change of pace.

For a noob, it's not bad. But a lot of these things will come in time, to be honest.

I have to edit the mix still of course, I only started it today

How could I add more power/bang to it?, also, I don't have sausage fattener

Hehe Sausage fattener.

Well, your bass sound is completely rolled off at the top end. It's all mids and lows. In order to give it more punch and power, it needs some high end.

Compression would help in crunching everything too. Your wav form is very dynamic. Give it some compression and it will sound tighter.