it subjective I guess.

the lowcut of around 20 - 30hz is because producing in a bedroom you don't know what is going on down here - your speakers / space will not give an accurate representation and also humans cant really hear below 20hz - a lot below 30hz depending on ones hearing. the only time you will ever feel these sub frequencies is on huge systems.

The high cut personally I do between 18Khz and 20Khz just to get rid of the super super sharp sounds up the top end. This cutoff point is subjective again because everyone hears different but anything from say 18Khz and up is really sharp to the ear and you have to decide if the range is actually adding anything. Information this high up the spectrum can often be more of an annoyance than actually sonically adding anything to your track.

there is no set points that you 'should' be cutting but it gives a good guideline.

Hello gang!!

I made this track which is a bit of a change from what I normally make. I usually make progressive music but more club focused stuff. This is slightly more 'song' focused - with regards to the vocals and lyrics. For that reason I released it independently rather than put it out on beatport or the labels I normally release on.   



It is actually available to download for 50p via my Bandcamp page:

https://midgeofficial.bandcamp.com/track/the-fire-of-your-soul-vocal-mix-feat-incanta

i wrote a blog post about this ageeees ago you may find useful. Well It isn't edited so there are some gaps and mistakes in there but the informational stuff should still be there:
http://www.midgeofficial.com/blog/the-all-important-kick-drum

And absolutely anything by Andre Sobota!!!  That guy is a magician!

thanks for the replies guys!
yeh I don't really produce stuff of this style very often so wasn't sure on it! Might look at getting some vocals in there.

Thanks Fellas.

I listened to the adams in the shop and they were bang on!!! 

didn't have them in stock at the time though so I was depressed!!

Definitely next set of monitors I buy for sure.

Izotopes Stereo imager -  pretty amazing plugin. You can split your frequency bands wherever you like and make your signal narrower or wider for each frequency band. It will also show you I you are keeping in phase and you can solo each band to see the effect.

TP Basslane - great for something like basslines - you basically set your cutoff point then everything under that cutoff point will be sent to mono. So there is no need to split your basses and send them to different channels just slap on a basslane and send your subs to mono.

Sonalksis Stereo tools - Good from 'spreading' sounds. I might use this on something like my hats or percussion buss to slightly spread out the upper mids and high frequencies.

also open your projects in your 'extended memory'.exe      -  it may be called something different in 12 but there is always a version of FL in your image-line programs folder that is equipped with a few extra gig of memory.


-----also make sure your laptops plugged into the power source haha - if its anything like mine if I don't have it plugged in I get the same!