The WIP thread - work In progress

[TNT]

A subfolder? Why not? I think a simple thread is adequate. But a subfolder would be nice, too.

@lilith

side chain some of the elements that not everything is in the front.

That’s too basic and self-evident. Of course there are sidechains all over the place, as well as panning of instruments.

@lilith

The track reminds me on a track of a German synth band (Alphaville maybe?)

Alphaville? I don’t think so. Their music is usually pretty soft. Big In Japan and so on, you know?

@lilith

sounds much better!

Thanks! But there’s still some work to do. Especially the synths and the lead need more clarity and the mix needs some small adjustments in terms of volume. I’ll deal with it after finishing the composition. Who knows what will be added and how the song will develop.

@joule

new version too bass heavy, right? mid clarity would have improved the mix instead of going for the alluring smiley-curve hype. Just my guess. Sounds cool in headphones and all, but…

Yeah, kinda. But not really bass heavy, it rather lacks clarity imho. My mixes usually don’t have the “classic” smiley-curve, there are also mids. Here’s the curve of the mix in its current state:

But I wonder what exactly you mean if you’re talking about “mid clarity”. What’s your method?

@ffx

At 1:00 and 1:25, that short last chord, some note seems wrong to me, harmonically. New version sounds better to me, but lacks of brightness now?

Hm, idk, there’s a long chord, but it sounds good to me and the notes are definitely right. Also the notes of the synths playing in parallel. It’s C, D# and G#. And there’s no mismatch. But you’re right about the brightness. The synths and the lead need to be “finetuned” regarding brightness. It doesn’t take much to restore clartiy, but it could be overdone pretty easily. I will post the next mix when it’s done.

@ffx

As a rule of thumb, maybe, decide, if the bright sounds should be mono or more the bassy stuff. Here, the bass seems to be wide already, so maybe make it even more wide using a multiband above 400hz spread/chorus/whatever

As usual everything below 200 Hz is mono. And some chosen instruments are treated mid/side, and the sides of mid and high frequencies of these chosen instruments are stereo expanded. That’s common.

@ffx

The chords starting at 0:49 seem to be too steeply lowpassed, maybe only -12dB? but maybe its my shitty 39 eur headphones.

It’s -8 dB lowpassed. Yeah, this is one of the instruments that lack clarity. Will be fixed,

@error.eyes

Nice. This has action sequence and training montage written all over it

Thanks! Yeah, I want to keep this kind of feeling for the whole song. But that’s one of the difficulties I think.

Edit:
The song is driving me crazy, I’m still stuck with the composition. Currently I’m trying several things, but it’s like running in circles. To get a little further I improved the mix instead and increased clarity (or clearness).
https://soundcloud.com/tnt-ffm/wip-v3/s-0KHgq9ujF5M?si=d6882751a77849e295b5f837fabd0429&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing