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RE: Electron recalibration

in #dsound7 years ago

This is great!

I’m no sound engineer, just used to do some stuff for fun back when 4 tracks were in and you had to futz around with the mic positioning a lot more, but I think the whole thing is a really great starting point.

If I can be a contrarian, you might get a lot of people that might suggest you start doing a lot of tinkering around with the low-end by, like, using a low shelf filter and boosting the frequencies underneath there, to make the bass sound “fatter.”

But, like you said, you’re a composer/arranger, not an audio engineer, so unlike a lot of people who have most of their background in EDM, you can (I think) appreciate (1) that pretty much the most important and wonky stuff happens at the mid-range which is where most of the important mixing is going to happen, and (2) you can cut out a lot of mixing work by arranging the piece properly, with the right amount of tracks for separate instruments/sounds.

It seems pretty popular to just throw down tracks and then fix them during mixing (“just fix it in post” kind of attitude) which definitely works for a lot of people.

But I like formally trained musicians who start working with music edm type music because you guys know how to arrange a song that’s already, in a sense, pre-mixed by virtue of your planning.

If you keep putting out music like this, I’d say that in about a years time you’ll be making songs that could legitimately “take-off” and get a fan base.

Thanks for the good tunes!

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This was an awesome and very helpful comment. Thank you @hauntology. I definitely think if I sit down seriously with some tutorials and start to apply techniques hands on I could get some decent mixes goes. Right now, I really do nothing but compress (no EQ'ing to speak of) so it's super rudimentary. Just using my ears. I appreciate the suggestion on the low end and definitely agree the midrange is what gets super cluttered and muddy. Thanks again for checking out my stuff and adding your insight! Cheers

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