Very nice
Thanks for putting this together, it’s already come in super handy.
As good as finished track, but as usually I have no clue about if the balance works outside my system
Does it sound well on your speakers, headphones, car/jeep/hoovercraft stereo etc?
And also this one is hopefully about to closed. Same mixing question. Does it work well at your sound systems?
Started with da Dub track and turned out quite poppy in the end:
Boring?
Yes, it sounds pretty balanced, but it’s absolutely not my style this time
In the second track the synths sometimes sound a bit harsh. (For example at 1:14)
If your mono mix works fine, it will work on every system “outside your system”, too.
Both songs work imho, the second one is just twice as loud as the first one. I wonder why.
No, but quite poppy in the end imho.
Not sure about that “Trance synth” starting at 1:55. Maybe a little too “playful” for intended Dub sound?
Yes, I agree. It sounds nice, but originally I wanted to go more into the dub direction.
It works even without that sound.
Dub…Warm and round bass
And Filtered delay…Wah wah…If I remember
I removed the “poppiness”
Not yet finished, but that’s the right direction I think.
Thanks for your comments and for taking your time
TNT: yes, that mono trick is a good test. But still unexpected things can happen, especially on Ipad speakers, that seems to auto compress things at high volume. (My andoid phone seems not to do it :P)
The second track is twice as loud. Is it too loud, or is the first track too low?
I think I have found out why my mixing often get muddy. Some VST’s and especially Korg M1 is too low. When I raise the output before any mixing or effects added, the mixing gets alot better. Even with effects on.
And then in the end I use a slight Eq and a Ceiling on the Master. Something I found in one of the tutorial modules.
Simple tricks, and it works really
Lilith:
Thanks :). Glad to know that the balance is good. I will use these settings in further projects.
There are songs on this forum for every taste
Mabye it is that ‘too loud’ thing, TNT mentions, that makes it harsh?
Depends on what you want to achieve, but imho the first one is too soft. What’s the LUFS value?
Don’t your tracks always have the same loudness? You could easily achieve that. All you need is a loudness meter in your master track to measure the loudness and adjust your mix according to the shown values. You could adjust your loudness to always the same value, for example -9 LUFS (side effect: if you would like to release an album one day, you don’t have to “normalize” your songs, because they all have the same loudness and hence they are already normalized). To avoid distortions and stuff put a maximizer or a limiter in your master track (the native Renoise one does the job) and make sure that you’ve also activated auto gain:
Effects like reverb and/or unnecessary low ends are causing muddiness. And in case you’ve got many instruments within the same frequency spectrum. Do you filter your instruments and effects?