My latest Renoise track

Hope you enjoy

http://soundcloud.com/pixellated/pixellated-vs-lisa-deville

There is a video too that I matched with it! I didn’t make the video, it just really suits the song :)

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It doesn’t sound bad btw
I do have the idea that the percussion and bass is overcompressed.

Ahh cool :)

I have a lot of problems getting the low end to sound right because I can’t hear it on my shite speakers. I usually just have to work off the EQ spectrum graph and see if it more or less looks about the right levels :-/

I was actually worried the bass was TOO consuming! You think it needs to be more in front?

Dude, I like it a lot! Sounds great! I do agree with vV about the bass. It sounds a tad thin. But the composition is really good!

Awesome man! I’m happy with how this little track panned out :)

In terms of the bass being thin, I always appreciate advice! Are there any frequencies in particular that I should be looking at? that are missing etc? I’m really new to this sort of thing.

Awesome man! I’m happy with how this little track panned out :)

In terms of the bass being thin, I always appreciate advice! Are there any frequencies in particular that I should be looking at? that are missing etc? I’m really new to this sort of thing.

With overcompressed i actually meant it was being ripped apart in the limited box it got crammed in.
That you can crank up volume while heavily compressing/limiting it, doesn’t mean the fuller sound sounds better. If you stuff a bashed speaker in a flight-case, you don’t hear the ear-tearing noise, but you still hear the speaker is bashed

From a production start-point and not from a compositional start-point.
From about 20 to 60 Hz is where you want to get the correct levels first.
I don’t have the article off hand but I concur with this method.
Because it takes more energy to produce in those ranges, you have to
base other frequency loudness according to that range. Then usually, I
work upwards frequency wise, from bass to mid to high.

http://www.independentrecording.net/irn/resources/freqchart/main_display.htm

Short off topic - I think scores/film soundtracks and effects
to some degree, do quite a lot of sub bass work, because the audience
is literally meant to feel it, adds to the scenes. I suspect some form
sub bass layering to higher frequency instruments. You can definitely
hear or feel a big difference how film scores are mixed compared to others.

Back on topic - I have shitty equipment too plus an environment where its
not suited for mixing. So I have to get it right in other ways.
I use ToneBooosters Loudness meter to do this. In Renoise, I do a pre
multi-band loudness metering to mix everything dry (no effects).
Then send all of it to its own multi-band sections. It gets crazy
during and after the multi-band stage. Lots of keeping things in order
and checking levels, including stereo or mid side levels. A how to use
a loudness meter probably deserves its own thread but surprisingly its
fairly easy to use.

Just to add a tip:
You could also consider the FocusRite VRM box if your equipment doesn’t cut it…

Really cool track. Nice beats, guitars and ideas how to combine it. :walkman: :guitar:

Thanks so much for the useful tips and feedback!!! It’s really appreciated. Making tracks as a new and independent muso is so much harder when you have to try and quasi-master them too :D

I have a new track I just finished too that I’ll put in another thread. Would love feedback on that too.