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nowaysj wrote:Have massive open working in the background as we speak, so to speak, it is easy to see if it is clipping just look at the master, if the little meters go into the red, its clipping. Avoid this with massive.

I think all plugs should have meters, and most don't. The better do.

How did you split the freq's with the bass? With fruity's peq2? If you use this eq split, click the HQ button in the middle bottom of the interface to turn it off. If u use it in hq mode the type of processing will introduce subtle delay which can cause phasing problems between the split channels. I'm betting this might be 5% of your larger problem.

indeed EQ2, never heard of HQ button damn, still 6 hours work today, i want to go home, and FIX it! DAMMIT!

Thought I'd shove my 2p's worth in tho not sure if it'll be any help.

I use Fruity...just Fruity and like plug ins and the usual shizzles.

I tend to mix down as I go, and I generally resample all of the samples using Edison before they go in my beat...even ifs its just a declick in declick out business to stop the sample clicking and causing a clip. Generally cut all the bottom end out of hats, and roll everything off in any samples using the Edison EQ thing below 40Hz (this doesn't seem to be too accurate tho).

Then when I'm chucking everything in my tune, I read a post on here somewhere if someone would be kind enough to link it...where I'm sure it was Macc saying something along the lines of... try get your kick and your snare hitting at -8dB and the bass around -10 to -12 and the hats around -18 to -22 ish??

But yeah get your mix downs as tight as you can...read as much as you can about mixing down. I learnt pretty much everything I know about making tunes through using this forum and various other places on the internet. The Bible is really actually very useful if you do some digging.

Basically your tune is like a jigsaw dude, there's only so many pieces that will fit together to make the whole picture (tune). Its like a super ultimate game of musical Tetris innit. All the frequencies are pieces that fit together...and the space gels it all in.

I would imagine any DAW would be able to produce tight mix downs, based on the ability of its user...you just gotta take the time to learn how innit. It's a massive learning curve I'm still on!!

Good luck dude!!

more simple advice if things are sound lifeless and you can't 'hear' every element in the tune:

don't use the solo button. eq stuff in context. and always subtractively eq first--- where can you take something away to make it sound right, rather than put something in?