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[didi]

work in progress, don't watch the mixdown lol

[finji]

weres the drop

[finji]

old one from me

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this is hard

[didi]

weres the drop

i like to push boundaries with my music

[particle-jim]

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This is SICK

[Jizz]

ray that artwork's amazing

[dickman69]

Lol yea

Teach them young

[Sexual_Chocolate]

your producs definitely gwarn up levels mayne

[esfandyar]

the term neurotrap was received with cringe here so i made some.

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[nowaysj]

ok

so I think you've got the bit down, where everytime you sit down you make something that is worth continuing and that is the most important aspect in producing/composing at all times.

You should be more aware of the highs and how they behave when compressed.
Particularly the attack transients 'coz they are 'pearcing'.
I've never figured that aspect out properly myself - but instead I've just got really comfortable with using the same lowpassfilter and the tone it's resonance has, so I can sort of recognise how it will sound before, if i lowpass the highs a bit.
It's obviously a tradeoff when you want a lot of definition in the highs, but I think we just assume we need a lot of definition there - reality is we only need to catch a bit of a transients' highend to realise where the sound is heading/comming from physically - so that atleast leaves room to experiment more than what the tradition of for example the loudness wars, and the way that sounds, suggests we should produce.
I have ear fatigue though, so I'm probably more sensitive than the average listener to that particular aspect. But I figured you responded positively to some of my tracks and in that aspect, its actually a concious effort on my part to 'put it all in a cave and cut the ceiling down'
Another thing, when we put something on the master and most of the sounds are quantised hard, it means that a lot of the sounds' transients will end up sitting right on top of each other and therefor cause for example compressors, to react to two sounds at once instead of just one properly. So you just move the attack of one of the sounds a tiny bit, like an increment tiny. And the compressor becomes gentle again. Hope this makes sence and helps a bit. Oh and lets do a track sometime

lol no offence but that was really confusing to read i get the part about quantising and compression though, i think maybe the compression on this tune could be done a bit better
sort of get what you said in the first half of the text but not sure what youre saying i did wrong/should change >.< also didnt get the cave analogy
but yes i will do a track with you sometime!

I don't know here fellas. I think we need to get our monitoring down. Listening on my krk's, which in my opinion are overly bright and cause me to mix dark, this doesn't sound as if there is too much high. It sounds about right, a little dark. This suggests to me that it is really dark. I don't know if you've changed this after hearing from hubb, whose advice I would really consider. Though only consider, and test against other information. I recommend really checking reference tracks during your mastering phase.

Just bring in WAVs into your daw, like three or four tracks you like the whole tonal balance of, right in your genre/feel. And A/B you track against them with your mastering chain on your track. This can make things in balances so much easier to spot. You can go back to mix from there or if it is minor, do it in the master. This is so powerful it is like cheating.

I think this track sounds good. I thought a little dark.

[kaili]

thats a good idea noways, i never tend to reference tracks like that but its definitely something i should be doin. and nah i havent changed the tune at all dark is what i was going for so i guess thats good lol

[hubb]

Great advice.
I was trying to put forth the idea that we all tend to put too much 'stress' on the highend when it comes to drum/perc transients - because it can be so effective in how it cuts through a mix - but not so much the tone of that whole mixdown.
But it was more a 'philosophical' notion than advice for Kaili, so I hope it doesn't seem as if I'm only referencing his music.

[hubb]

Sorry guys I think my english has been used up for the dae.

[kaili]

its ok man aha, i did understand most of your main points tbh

[nowaysj]

yeah brub, i got u 100%

kai li there is dark and there is dark. if you had to reference what tracks would they be? id like to hear, my monitoring situation is a moving target as well.

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[kaili]

yeah brub, i got u 100%

kai li there is dark and there is dark. if you had to reference what tracks would they be? id like to hear, my monitoring situation is a moving target as well.

not sure really tbh right now, but probably somethin like an untold or objekt tune

[kaili]

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check out this remix vectu did of one of my tunes guys

[ehbes]

i made trap, don't h8 m8

private link so just click the URL

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[didi]

/ban