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Re: Dealing with "emptiness"
« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2016, 07:39:41 am »
Honestly it's good to leave in some empty space.
That way your song will sound more dynamic and if there's too much empty space, you can take care of it by mastering properly to fill those gaps.
More layers like pads, extra leads or sound effects like white noise or other fx can always fill up the song.
I like to think of the song as a big bottle. All your instruments are big rocks that fill up the bottle nicely but there are a lot of gaps left in between.
These additional layers and effects are like sand that smoothly fills up those gaps and makes it a full bottle aka a full song.
That's how I see it =D
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Re: Dealing with "emptiness"
« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2016, 10:25:22 am »
Quote from: Holder on January 07, 2016, 07:39:41 am
Honestly it's good to leave in some empty space.
That way your song will sound more dynamic and if there's too much empty space, you can take care of it by mastering properly to fill those gaps.
More layers like pads, extra leads or sound effects like white noise or other fx can always fill up the song.
I like to think of the song as a big bottle. All your instruments are big rocks that fill up the bottle nicely but there are a lot of gaps left in between.
These additional layers and effects are like sand that smoothly fills up those gaps and makes it a full bottle aka a full song.
That's how I see it =D

I agree it can be great but there's always that feeling, when your listening to your mix, that something is missing but you don't know what can fill the gaps
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Re: Dealing with "emptiness"
« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2016, 11:23:13 am »
I like to think the piano roll as a pentagram properly (even if I don't write music on pentagrams), where notes are like frequencies. So, speaking in non-minimalistic terms, try to imagine your composition as a sort of "orchestral unicum" where you have to fill all the gaps :)
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Re: Dealing with "emptiness"
« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2016, 04:14:19 pm »
add lots of foley/ASMR-y sounding samples within crucial parts of your song. send them to a reverb buss. sidechain that reverb buss to the drums.
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Re: Dealing with "emptiness"
« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2016, 04:31:26 pm »
Quote from: Mat_Zo on January 06, 2016, 11:36:40 pm
idk man, sometimes empty space can be a good thing when you use it correctly. Theres a quote from a famous jazz musician, either miles davis or john coltrane i cant remember, but he basically says his solos aren't about the notes he plays, its about the space in between them. I think this mindset can be applied to mixdowns too

I think that most people consider emptiness when comparing tracks against heavy hitters like Lange. The way his atmospheres sit; they're huge. It takes a lot of time, a lot of dedication, and some serious creative energy to get to that level of production value.
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