This.antman wrote:I would tell myself to stop you tubing and googling and just read the manual.
Also, it would be; don't think that because you transposed your bassline in 4 octaves, it's going to sound huge and awesome. Some of my biggest basslines have come from sounds made from just 1 or 2 oscillators and just one octave, or a few oscillators carefully layered together (and a sub). I used to just try to use as many oscillators as possible thinking that would give me a huge sound, when all it really ever gave me was a huge wall of shit that cluttered the mix.
Also, it would be to learn the basics of EQing, and use it to have things sit proper in the mix, as opposed to getting into a loudness war where you turn the bassline up, and the lead drowns out, so you turn the lead up, then the pad drowns out, etc. etc. Learn to focus as much as possible on the track as a whole. That lead you just made may sound very sick on its own, but if it cludders the mix, what are the most vital frequency ranges that need to come through, and what can you notch out to make headroom for other things?
And the final tidbit, don't frequency split just because you heard that's what the pros do. Obviously experiment, but I fell into the trap of always trying to frequency split my reeses and they just turned out thin sounding and just genuinely god awful because I was just doing it to do it; because I heard it was a good thing. I sometimes frequency split my basslines with good results, but usually for my reeses I just split of the sub and then everything above it. Basically, stay away from the trap of doing something you don't know how to do just because you heard it was good to do. That being said, take some time every now and again to completely negate what I just said and experiment with things you know nothing about (and learn as much as you can about at the same time).
