I've been working my way through ableton live for a few days now. Got this tune set up but i'm just messing around with the levels and can't get it to sound right.
The bass in the main beat is too soft on the mid but it still sounds like it's eating too much frequency or sumthing.
Overall the drum don't sound too right either imho...
Now i'm anything but a master at EQing/frequencies and the whole mess around it, so can u guys give me some tips on making the different instruments sound better.
+ any good free vst's for EQing?
Other option is: it's not the levels/frequencies, it's just shitty samples/effects, in other words shitty producing
any ways lemme know what you think.
When mixing down your track start with all the faders at 0 and slowly move them up so you have a lot of room to go louder. Then master it with a limiter to boost the volume to a normal level.
With EQ, try to cut frequencies, not boost them- you're trying to carve away the excess rather than accentuate the desired frequencies. Generally for DnB it goes like this:
Sub bass- sine wave, 60 Hz.
Kick- 90 Hz.
Snare- 200 Hz.
Reese- Usually sits above the snare- over 200 Hz.
Fill out the mids with your pads, and the hihats fill out the high frequencies.
When your kickdrum is eating other instruments and the drum itself still doesn't sound like you want it, this means that you try to bring out frequencies that aren't there by turning up the volume.
You could highpass the kick and layer another kick (which has enough bass) with a lowpass filter underneath that way the result sounds like you want it and the low end of the layered kicks doesn't result in phasing or sound canceling.
The lame way of solving this (don't tell anyone about it
) is cloning the instrument so you have 2 identical kicks and then low pass one of them so only the low end remains, this way you have more low end and an equal amount of mids. But this isn't a guarantee for success because you can't double anything if it isn't there and you might get a tiny delay because of the low pass filter which can cause nasty phasing on your kick.
The easier thing to do is to use a different kick drum which has everything you want it to have.
You can't polish a turd (unless you want a shiny turd)
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it's not really the kick i'm worried about it's the reece, but it all needs some work so thx for the advice, i'll dig my way through some articles this weekend.
and btw, is the google bot the only female around?
Originally posted by Mythix
it's not really the kick i'm worried about it's the reece, but it all needs some work so thx for the advice, i'll dig my way through some articles this weekend.
You could use sidechain compression to make the bass go down when the kick hits. That way you avoid conflicts between the two.
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If its the reece that's causing the problems then maybe a broad scoop of eq cutting out the frequencies anywhere between 200-500Hz
To find out what you want rid, boost a narrow band of eq and sweep around and hopefully you'll be able to tell what frequencies are causing the probs. once found make this boost into a cut and then decrease the Q to a wider band. hopefully that should make the reece sit better with the drums
Oh and dont worry about the lack of women, nearly all production forums are sausage fests
any ways lemme know what you think.
) is cloning the instrument so you have 2 identical kicks and then low pass one of them so only the low end remains, this way you have more low end and an equal amount of mids. But this isn't a guarantee for success because you can't double anything if it isn't there and you might get a tiny delay because of the low pass filter which can cause nasty phasing on your kick.
i know! soz