First impression: I thought two tracks were playing at once. That's not really good
You have multiple loops stacked which don't play together nicely. The main culprit is the hihat loop which doesn't roll with the kick and snare.
You also have set up the master compression badly. It is causing heavy pumping on the drums, making everything sound even less defined. You can hear this very well at 2:57 when the compressor 'opens up' and everything suddenly sounds 10x better.
Also between 4:20-4:24 this is very apparent, you can hear the drums squashing the life out of the bass and lead.
My advice is to kill the master compressor completely until you know how to properly set it up. You will learn this eventually, don't worry too much about it.
You need to work on your balance first. Your drums are way too loud in comparison to your bass and lead. You just can't hear it because of the compressor messing things up
Melodies are nice, and the bass and lead sound nice and full when they play on their own. You have good ideas but lack some mixing experience, you'll get there sooner than later!
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There is to much delay or reverb on main makes it sounds very strange or there is something wrong with stereo in this one. Hihats sounds not clear, to much mid-freq ? Some of the sounds are pretty cool, but quality and repetivness dragging all down.
Originally posted by thechronic
First impression: I thought two tracks were playing at once. That's not really good
You have multiple loops stacked which don't play together nicely. The main culprit is the hihat loop which doesn't roll with the kick and snare.
You also have set up the master compression badly. It is causing heavy pumping on the drums, making everything sound even less defined. You can hear this very well at 2:57 when the compressor 'opens up' and everything suddenly sounds 10x better.
Also between 4:20-4:24 this is very apparent, you can hear the drums squashing the life out of the bass and lead.
My advice is to kill the master compressor completely until you know how to properly set it up. You will learn this eventually, don't worry too much about it.
You need to work on your balance first. Your drums are way too loud in comparison to your bass and lead. You just can't hear it because of the compressor messing things up
Melodies are nice, and the bass and lead sound nice and full when they play on their own. You have good ideas but lack some mixing experience, you'll get there sooner than later!