I would like to hear your music made with Renoise or other Daws

[TNT]

@ffx

I really like your mixes, so clear and on the point. Nice that you have a strong middle but it still sounds solid. Do you have any general mixing rules? I only have one rule: No rules Ok, good base sounds, fixing issues in the synths. But my old unfinished projects have tons of eq, compressors etc. Also I always tend to do anything wide.

Thanks. I still haven’t found the holy grale of mixing, but of course I adopted some techniques.

1. Put a VU-Meter on the kick and adjust the volume, it has to be 0 vu when the kick hits
2. Delete all unnecessary frequencies of every single instrument by filter (for example a hihat doesn’t need frequiencies within the low end section, needs to be “hipassed”)
3. Set the lower frequencies (everything under 200 Hz) to mono
4. Use compressors in your single audio tracks to regulate the volume peaks of the respective instruments (not every instrument needs to be compressed)
5. Set the whole song to mono and adjust the volume of all the other instruments, so that everything is clearly audible
6. If you’re executing point 5, make sure to adjust by using studio headphones/studio monitors AND common Hifi speakers, switch as often as necessary until it sounds good everywhere
7. Switch back to stereo and repeat the procedure for finetuning
8. Use sends and busses for some parallel processing to get more “whoomp” and “depth”

You’re not the first one telling me that the mids are strong in my tracks. I don’t know why exactly, the EQ in my master channel always pushes the highs and lows twice as much as the mids. I just push the mids when it comes to arps, plucks or other similar small and short “background instruments”, because for me it sounds much better, it’s thicker, deeper and clearer and most importantly you get a better audibility even if your song would be flooded with loudness and bass. Generally I’m pushing single frequencies for some instruments. The kick or bassdrum for example always gets a push around 1000 Hz. Usually some frequencies need to be tamed, others to be pushed, depends on the instrument and its sound. What I also do sometimes is to cut the highs by LP filter (hihats, snares, other drums and if necessary also other instrument types), but of course only if it’s stringently required (which my ears are telling me). And when it comes to the final mix and mastering, I also use mastering techniques like the rear bus technique, parallel drum compression (for example the so called New York compression), parallel bass compression or else. But I can’t say “it always has to be done like that”, depends on the song and the type of sound you’re creating.

All right, now it’s time for you to answer my question I asked 3 months ago.

@TNT

But you have to tell me how you did that specific note sliding at 0:51, 0:54, 0:57 and so on. That’s exactly what’s missing in my VST world, I only can do this with samples via pattern effect commands, but I don’t use any samples except the drums. And portamento isn’t the right thing to get it into practice that way. How did you do it?

Your song I’m referring to is called “Urlaub3d - C-nu4 Transi Nu2c” and you posted it in November 2020.