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Jamie Léon

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Putting Elements in their Place
« on: March 15, 2016, 10:02:10 pm »
Hey my Producer Friends:)

A thing that I'm still heavily struggling with is how to put different elements of my tracks in the right "place". I'm familiar with panning and stereo imaging a little bit, but I also wanted to ask for other useful tips. One thing for example that I read in this forum that I found to be a great tip was to high cut the reverb of a sound in order to put it more in the background of the song. (If that's right^^) As you can see, I'm clearly a beginner and any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Re: Putting Elements in their Place
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2016, 11:52:42 am »
There are EQ, reverb, and delay of course, but the two most important things that affect this are:

1. Sound selection. Some sounds (because of their frequency content, transients, etc.) sound "up front" and some naturally sound more background-ish. (Example: try making a shaker take the "up front" position. It's hard to do since it's a high-frequency sound and it wants to be in the background.)

2. Volume.

I know this sounds simple, but if you can't get a sound *almost* where you want it with just these two, adding tons of processing isn't going to help.
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Re: Putting Elements in their Place
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2016, 12:06:41 pm »
This just takes practice. Mess around with panning, stereo/mono imaging, volume mixing and delays and reverbs and see what works best.
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