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| quote: | Originally posted by spolitta
Nothing should ever sound good on it's own but rather it should sound good within the arrangement. You can always duplicate a track and redo the processing differently for the different sections, only if you feel that will solve your problem, usually it's just the EQ & reverb that needs tweaking for different parts.
Some who are trying to produce minimal get frustrated only because the way minimal works, there isn't any place to hide any mistakes, compared to a other busy dance tunes. Every music needs good EQing, good compression, good arrangement and so on but in minimal you ought to do your best and nail everything right in the head. It's so easy to make boring tracks since there is not much going on at one time.
It's true they say minimal is the easiest of the dance music just to start out and get something going, but in reality it's one of the hardest to get everything just right.
IMHO, it's the lack of programming skills & creativity that results boring tracks. |
This seems to sound most like what I'm trying to describe...
Layered, busy mixes usually sound great but cover up a lot of the weaknesses of the original timbres. In trying to make minimal tracks, I find my individual "micro"-plucked leads don't sound as good as they should compared to other minimal tracks...
Stuff accessed from samples from drum kits usually sound better, I'm sure by virtue of the source material's preprocessing.
Making plucks, glitches, from raw synth waveforms isn't always perfect. When I compare mine to professional, mine feel pretty weak.
The options I have to play with on reverb (in this case Cubase 5) are intial delay, reverb decay time, room size, diffusion, width, bass and treble EQ/boost. Playing with these I know that smaller rooms with the treble taken down a bit and the bass boosted gives all sounds a bit more body, like the timbre is actually there and not in outer space somewhere. Still not close to what the pro's offer.
Maybe, if with the tools I have its just plain impossible unless I had access to a superior reverb/mastering plugin 
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