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[Totoro75]

Isturite, on 15 October 2010 - 06:53 AM, said:

I came up with a new track... it's been a while since I've posted here... but this is how far my sound improvement have come in that time... I'm still frustrated and wish I had better sound quality but I feel as though I've come a long way... Now it's mainly just a matter of compression and being more careful with my levels...

If anybody has any more mixing feedback for me I would be very grateful, here's my most recent track... I really could use an engineers advice here
Listen on Soundcloud.com

You are clearly way ahead of me on the mixing, so I've not got any criticism. I do have some praise, though. I love the rich but dry sounds like the glitchy high-hat sound at about 0:08. The theme carries throughout the track, and then the really beautifully fat bass at the very end is tasty.

I'm just starting in on tracking and mixing my first record, so I'm really on the first part of the learning curve. Great work, though. It keeps me inspired.

[Isturite]

UPDATE: I've made a few more new tracks and they are getting better in sound quality though could still use some more feedback, and also add what has been giving me the improvement...
soundcloud.com/isturite -if you want to hear my three newest ones

On the master track I've been adding some bus tracks... mainly an exciter to help clarify the highs... this really helped bring my song forward so it sounds more up in your face and not so muffled... My issue mainly is that my mids are muddy, lows are too loud, and highs are not clear enough... I used an exciter I built with ableton's effect rack, with an 8band EQ, a saturator, and a sidechained compressor. The EQ cuts everything below 1-2kHz, saturator add some harmonics and richness, and the compressor keeps the cracking highs under control... this is used as a bus track and played at 8-10dB lower volume than the unprocessed signal. The hi's and mid-hi frequencies sound much better and my music sounds more "present" but is still lacking warmth...

Mainly I have an issue with my mids, not on all speakers just on some... (usually ones with small heads and a sub).... my guess is that my mids are just not beefy enough and therefor my music only sounds good on tiny speakers or fatty speakers.... anything in between seems to have a dominant frequency response in the area that my song is missing : (

If anybody has any ideas on beefing up my mid range so it still has some low end without a 12"+ speaker cone, please give some of my tracks a listen and let me know what I could improve... I've come a LONG way from when I started production... but I feel I still have a very long road ahead of me when it comes to mixdowns