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Mixing Help/Thoughts - Trap/Bass Music/Vocal WIP
« on: December 17, 2016, 07:05:42 am »
Hey guys,

I'm starting a side project - and i'm trying to wrap up my first track under the moniker, but i'm having a hell of a time with this mixdown.
Mixing has always been a huge struggle to me, it sounds great as I go and then the sound degrades after awhile and I realize how bad my mixdown is so I go to fix it and then the whole process repeats again while I change things and then change them back.

Can someone give me some suggestions on what they hear in this WIP and give me a breakdown of where they would start to tackle this? I'm not asking someone to mix my track for me, I just work better of insight and example.

Thanks so much in advance, guys.

LINK: https://soundcloud.com/iamouza/totoro-v2-3/s-ojVKK

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Re: Mixing Help/Thoughts - Trap/Bass Music/Vocal WIP
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2016, 02:22:45 am »
woahhhhhh this is crazy. i love the panning you have going with the growls a LOT. also did you do the vocals??

i think the snare could use a little more high end/ sparkle - during the drop it gets kinda lost. also some of the FX sounds a bit loud (:40) but that's more personal taste.

this is seriously cool, i hope you finish it!! also you should join this place's slack channel! we've got a few ppl who talk there and it's fun. there are links in my bio:
check out the chat!! you can join here.

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Re: Mixing Help/Thoughts - Trap/Bass Music/Vocal WIP
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2016, 02:28:28 am »
I dig it! This is a sick tune. Very clean, and overall your mixdown sounds fine. I think what you're missing right now is a sense of space - That lead in the drop is screaming for some reverb, and as far as I can tell it's pretty much playing nonstop outside of the bass growls.

Consider pulling out the lead synth right when the first snare hits on every four or eight bar phrase, and letting the reverb fill up that area to give the listener's ears a quick reprieve before you load it back in. I'm super excited to hear the finished product!

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Re: Mixing Help/Thoughts - Trap/Bass Music/Vocal WIP
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2016, 05:22:51 pm »
Thank you guys for the kind words - I'm glad you guys are digging it, and yes the vocals are mine, but they're heavily edited, haha.

I'll definitely add some brightness to the snare and play with the reverb on the drop lead, I'm having a hard time having it come in exactly when I want, I think I may just need to manually automate it rather than trying to get it right with a compressor.

Thanks for the specifics with the timestamps and stuff too, I really appreciate it!

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Re: Mixing Help/Thoughts - Trap/Bass Music/Vocal WIP
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2016, 11:04:24 pm »
Dude this is pretty sick.  I love the drums.  For the lead in the first drop, it sounds a bit harsh in the high end.  It's probably the reverb.  You might want to reduce the high end in that synth, or if the reverb is a bus, you could reduce the high end of the bus.  I hear a bit of the same thing in the lead in the second drop as well.

For that snare, I honestly don't think you need to add much (or any) high end.  One trick you can use to assess the loudness of an element is to turn the volume of your speakers down so that it's really quiet, and then listen to the song.  If the element (the snare for instance) sounds lost while it's quiet, it will probably be the same when it's loud.  The snare sounds great to me.  I might increase the snare volume slightly (1 or 2 db), but I like it.

I know this doesn't have to do with mixing but: I would add some variation in the first drop.  The main lead plays the same melody a lot.

Hope this helps.  Song sounds great btw