The WIP thread - work In progress

I don’t know how you mix and I don’t know what you want to achieve with the sound of the current project.
But what I hear without having any information about the project is the following:

  1. the song starts with a kick that is very bassy but doesn’t have any punch at all, and it’s at least 2-3 times louder than the second kick that comes in later at the 2 minute mark (the snare that also appears at 2 minutes is as soft as the second kick - both need to be louder and more in front)
  2. the zap from the beginning beat is even louder than the bassy kick
  3. the arpeggiated synth dominates the whole song because of its loudness in comparison to everything else
  4. all the “background stuff” is pretty soft and needs to get louder

So what kind of tips are you looking for? I can only repeat the same as always:

  1. Mix in mono (put a stereo expander in your master and set it to mono)
  2. Do your filtering etc. as recommended (more details here)
  3. Check your mix through several outputs (speakers, headphones, monitors)

You won’t need Ozone or whatever if you’re doing your mixing right. Ozone can’t fix a messed up mix. And if the mix isn’t right, we shouldn’t think of mastering at this point. The mastering is just limiting and stuff, but the mix is way more important than the mastering. If you’d fix the mix, you won’t have to do much in terms of mastering. Save your money, Renoise is all you need for mixing - and mastering as well.

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