09-02-2015, 01:27 AM
I understand going overboard on doing something. The thing you have to learn, or at least I had to learn, was to figure out how to back off and learn how to split your hearing up from subjective and objective. Learning to do that can help you to balance what kind of processing you have to do versus what is too much processing.
Space is one of those things that I cannot put into words on how to accomplish at all. You just have to fiddle with it and get better at recognizing it. But definitely something to start working on now because it will be something that will separate mixes about is how the utilization of space comes into place.
O rly? Ignoring the volume of the signal the first thing I did was to HPF it with a gentle 6dB/Oct filter at about 50Hz. For a good chunk of the mix this is how I was listening to it. Then at a point I felt it needed a more aggressive feeling. So, I dialed up a compressor with very aggressive set of timings and quite a bit of GR (~10dB). Then I applied the age old Pultec EQ trick on the low end. I also added a very generous amount of high shelving with the pultec as well. This really helped it come out and be "big" sounding. Other than that I've got the sidechain and a HPF for the one section in the track where I filtered it out. Not complicated.
Space is one of those things that I cannot put into words on how to accomplish at all. You just have to fiddle with it and get better at recognizing it. But definitely something to start working on now because it will be something that will separate mixes about is how the utilization of space comes into place.
Quote:I'd really like to know how you got the bass synth so huge on your version.
O rly? Ignoring the volume of the signal the first thing I did was to HPF it with a gentle 6dB/Oct filter at about 50Hz. For a good chunk of the mix this is how I was listening to it. Then at a point I felt it needed a more aggressive feeling. So, I dialed up a compressor with very aggressive set of timings and quite a bit of GR (~10dB). Then I applied the age old Pultec EQ trick on the low end. I also added a very generous amount of high shelving with the pultec as well. This really helped it come out and be "big" sounding. Other than that I've got the sidechain and a HPF for the one section in the track where I filtered it out. Not complicated.