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here is my mix. hope you like.

Any input??

From Argentina

Sergio

Hi Sergio!

I think you have to look back to your mix, it don't sound like drum&bass, the snare could be more aggressive and also kick.
Probably you are not much inside the genre but you need more drums and more bass
Try stuff like parallel compression for ex: 1176, ratio 20:1, push your input and decrease your out a bit, play with attack and release you will ear more substain or less on depending how you set your release and attack, then move your fader down and push it back until you got more punch, you could use any compressor for the work.

All best my friend

Jacques

I think you're approaching the low end incorrectly here. You've boosted the low end of kick and bass like crazy. Sometimes more low end doesn't equal punchier low end. Instead of turning something up loud it might be wise to compress it in order to get more attack out of it. That's why lot of people are compressing the basses and kicks a lot, especially in this kind of music.

Also in general this type of music doesn't hurt from some extra compression everywhere: be it vocals, drum or the mix bus. Modern is modern.

I really didn't understand what you're trying to convey with that vocal delay. Using an out-of-time delay is a very risky thing but can be cool if you can make it work. Here I feel it doesn't work at all. I think it's better first to master the in-time delays before one starts to experiment with the daring off-time delays.

I see, this style is not my thing, definitely ....... lol

(04-03-2014, 05:35 PM)flyrecords Wrote: [ -> ]I see, this style is not my thing, definitely ....... lol

lol... but don't get down for that, get into it, to get good also on this kind of music...we don't have limits

All best

I'm not familiar with this style either, as we're from the west side of the pond, so I feel you. There are good elements to your mix, though. The cheap sounding piano part has been transformed into something much easier on the ears by the blend with the surrounding pads.

Honestly, I think if you nixed the peaking boosts on the kick and instead used the bass synth as the primary source of low frequency energy, reduce the highs (especially on the noise track) and turn down the vocals while enahcning the bottom end instruments, everything would come together much better. You're not too far off, you're just going for sonics more suited to your prefered genre. We ALL fall in that trap sometimes!

Hey Sergio,
from my perspective, the mix seems to have some balance issues, mainly with the drums.
the hi-hat seems pulled very far to the right-speaker and has a very high volume compared to the rest.
The first thing I would do to fix the balance: Pull down the hi-hat, give the snare and kick some more, the bass as well,
then I'd pull down the vocals a bit, probably adding a compressor to the trio, to get the main vocal up when the rest is not singing.

But what is really surprising is the very deep subwoofer on the end "human"-line. It nearly knocked me of the chair, very creative and unexpected!
Keep it up, some beef, a bit more balancing and you're off to go!

(06-03-2014, 09:22 PM)Skelpolu Wrote: [ -> ]Hey Sergio,
from my perspective, the mix seems to have some balance issues, mainly with the drums.
the hi-hat seems pulled very far to the right-speaker and has a very high volume compared to the rest.
The first thing I would do to fix the balance: Pull down the hi-hat, give the snare and kick some more, the bass as well,
then I'd pull down the vocals a bit, probably adding a compressor to the trio, to get the main vocal up when the rest is not singing.

But what is really surprising is the very deep subwoofer on the end "human"-line. It nearly knocked me of the chair, very creative and unexpected!
Keep it up, some beef, a bit more balancing and you're off to go!

Corrected some aspects of the kick and snare emphasizing and bass mix, combining the voices change and some keys.
hope you like my second attempt.
Skelpolu thanks for your criticism, I hope you like this new attempt, I think I understood that this style is about.

from Argentina

Sergio

Sounds better now, just a few things that need to be said:
The Delay is not in sync with the beat, it is disorienting sometimes.
Except for that, the Synth-Lead and the Piano sound like they are drowing a bit.

You certainly got a lot more sub-frequencies going on, which sounds great on subwoofers.
This might be only a mixing choice, but I personally prefer to keep some higher frequencies of the bass
audible so that people with smaller speakers can still distinguish where the bass is located at.

It sounds better than before, just some tweaks and you're off to go!

Thanks for your concepts Skelpolu, it will improve shortly, understanding what it takes to make it sound like you really have to be.

Greetings from Argentina

Sergio

PS: thanks for your time ...