Spent a while on the sound engineering. Please let me know what you think!
VinteK99
Track sounds great man, good work.
TheFrown
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Originally posted by VinteK99
Track sounds great man, good work.
:D
EddieZilker
Nice work on this. The lead sounds a little shrill and its level obscures the bass-line a bit. That bass-line is doing some cool , too.
This part is pure subjectivity - take it with a grain of salt: Not so sure on the drop out of the break. It's not really doing much that wasn't happening before the break and the kick and crash, throughout, seems a little overdone.
Honestly, I enjoyed listening to it. I really do think that lead needs to come down, though.
TheFrown
Thanks man I really appreciate you showing me that!
I agree with the lead sounding shrill. I love the sound but it over takes the mix around the 4k region. I need to eq it down just a bit to get rid of those peaks. I still want it to stick out as its the lead for the track but it does sound a little to obnoxious as is.
As for the crashes I was going for an arty style big room feel. Your not the first person to say that though so I might have to adjust my plan with those. Well see for now.
Again thank you for your comment. very helpful!
EddieZilker
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Originally posted by TheFrown
Thanks man I really appreciate you showing me that!
I agree with the lead sounding shrill. I love the sound but it over takes the mix around the 4k region. I need to eq it down just a bit to get rid of those peaks. I still want it to stick out as its the lead for the track but it does sound a little to obnoxious as is.
As for the crashes I was going for an arty style big room feel. Your not the first person to say that though so I might have to adjust my plan with those. Well see for now.
Again thank you for your comment. very helpful!
After reading about how certain frequencies tend to be over-amplified, I've been finding that cutting a wide bell, from the 2 kHz to 5 kHz region, can take a lot of harshness out of tracks and make it a lot less oppressive to listen to. You may just need to notch that 4 kHz gremlin out of there but, after you've done that, you might try a larger bell to see, if just by lowering the volume on the wider bandwidth (maybe not more than 1-2 dB - too much and it will start sounding thin), suggested above, you still can't achieve the same result you want to with the lead and clear up some space for the bass-line's mids to kind of peak through.
For my subjectivity, you might try lowering the velocity/volume on the crashes to a curve, sloping successively downward, then back up again - nothing too apparent - just to give it more of a feel for what's going on with the phrasing on the rest of your tracks. In general, cymbals and hi-hats seem to take up a lot of space in the mix. Another method, suggested to me by a couple of different producers, is to lower the volume completely on your hats and cymbals and slowly reintroduce them for the desired effect. It may be possible to achieve the desired result but at a much lower volume.
Regardless, I'd still love to hear any revision you put up.
