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Something I am working on~
Again, just Garageband and a simple Midi-Keyboard, everything is original. Uh, yeah! Not quite done, needs a bit of equalization, cutting down and mixing but it is meant to sound kinda dirty and raw.
This choon is about being stuck without a way out, and being uncertain whether you even want to pray for a miracle. Unable to do anything you try to keep going despite the lack of a way out, just to get into that light thats outside. Then the miracle comes, you are saved, and you are overjoyed to be out... before you remember that you got yourself into this in the first place, and your freedom isn't due to your own efforts... you keep moving, and try not to look back.
Again, just Garageband and a simple Midi-Keyboard, everything is original. Uh, yeah! Not quite done, needs a bit of equalization, cutting down and mixing but it is meant to sound kinda dirty and raw.
This choon is about being stuck without a way out, and being uncertain whether you even want to pray for a miracle. Unable to do anything you try to keep going despite the lack of a way out, just to get into that light thats outside. Then the miracle comes, you are saved, and you are overjoyed to be out... before you remember that you got yourself into this in the first place, and your freedom isn't due to your own efforts... you keep moving, and try not to look back.
Category Music / All
Species Rabbit / Hare
Size 120 x 90px
File Size 4.79 MB
Okay, I really, really like this peice, a lot. It's got a lot of mood and it's pretty unique sounding. Pleeease don't change it too much, you got the "dirty and raw" sound down pat. That being said, there are some things worth changing.
I love the growl of those synths, but man... You gotta drop their relative volume - the percussion gets lost waaaay back.
Or, alternatively, bring the drums up and/or overcompress them (6/1 ratio, low threshold, longer attack time to emphasize the attack on the drums) until they make your balls go numb.
Oh, and that bass near the end sounds nice but it's so loud in the mix it overloaded my sub and makes my desk rattle at a very low volume. Bring that waaay down - besides, the mood of that bass there makes it seem like it might work better as a softer part rather than a loud part.
It's possible your speaker system is not very good at accurately producing the lower frequencies, so you push it up to mix well, but on other systems it will be overbassy and super loud. I actually had the opposite, so none of my early work had any bass because the cheaper, inaccurate PC speakrer/sub combo emphasized the bass so much I only needed a teeny bit to seem full. Sort of like being in a car and trying to mix with a ten inch subwoofer flapping about behind your head.
I love the growl of those synths, but man... You gotta drop their relative volume - the percussion gets lost waaaay back.
Or, alternatively, bring the drums up and/or overcompress them (6/1 ratio, low threshold, longer attack time to emphasize the attack on the drums) until they make your balls go numb.
Oh, and that bass near the end sounds nice but it's so loud in the mix it overloaded my sub and makes my desk rattle at a very low volume. Bring that waaay down - besides, the mood of that bass there makes it seem like it might work better as a softer part rather than a loud part.
It's possible your speaker system is not very good at accurately producing the lower frequencies, so you push it up to mix well, but on other systems it will be overbassy and super loud. I actually had the opposite, so none of my early work had any bass because the cheaper, inaccurate PC speakrer/sub combo emphasized the bass so much I only needed a teeny bit to seem full. Sort of like being in a car and trying to mix with a ten inch subwoofer flapping about behind your head.
Thanks a tonne~!
I'll definitely take all that into consideration (as I have no idea what I'm doing ^.^;;) with the next mix.
I think my speakers are _very_ inaccurate tbh. They are Bose Companion 2s (£100 worth of 2.1 x_x;) and they are great, apart from they have some sort of built in normalizer which doesn't help much when I'm composing and eats allot of music :.
Will it work better if I use my Sennheiser PMX 60 headphones?
Again thanks allot #^---^#
I'll definitely take all that into consideration (as I have no idea what I'm doing ^.^;;) with the next mix.
I think my speakers are _very_ inaccurate tbh. They are Bose Companion 2s (£100 worth of 2.1 x_x;) and they are great, apart from they have some sort of built in normalizer which doesn't help much when I'm composing and eats allot of music :.
Will it work better if I use my Sennheiser PMX 60 headphones?
Again thanks allot #^---^#
Well, probably in terms of accuracy - I like using my sennheiser HD 280s. The only problem is that headphones are not what you'd use in final mixing, and the reverse will likely happen - IE my problem, the bass buildup. Unavoidable unless you have a really really fine-tuned (and typically expensive) set.
And the biggest issue with headphone mixing is spacial accuracy, as well as phase issues that would be hidden. I mixzed one song down with headphones (being that my laptop wasn't able to hook up to my studio monitors at the time) and then finally brought them over to my school's desk, and yuck... one really, really rich synth became instantly weak and hollow because I hadn't fiddled with it having stereo space in mind, that is without my head in the way.
However, it's your best bet. If you're really serious, look into getting some really good monitors. Obviously we're not talking Genelec here, $20k is a bit much. However, look into KRK's lineup: I use KRK rp5s, which are better than most monitors three times their price range, and can be found from $100-200 each used (or $300-350 new) and are self-powered so no need to worry about an additional amp to run them. Saving up $200 shouldn't be too terribly hard, but even if it is it's worth it.
And the biggest issue with headphone mixing is spacial accuracy, as well as phase issues that would be hidden. I mixzed one song down with headphones (being that my laptop wasn't able to hook up to my studio monitors at the time) and then finally brought them over to my school's desk, and yuck... one really, really rich synth became instantly weak and hollow because I hadn't fiddled with it having stereo space in mind, that is without my head in the way.
However, it's your best bet. If you're really serious, look into getting some really good monitors. Obviously we're not talking Genelec here, $20k is a bit much. However, look into KRK's lineup: I use KRK rp5s, which are better than most monitors three times their price range, and can be found from $100-200 each used (or $300-350 new) and are self-powered so no need to worry about an additional amp to run them. Saving up $200 shouldn't be too terribly hard, but even if it is it's worth it.
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