by Codeum » 22 Mar 2012 16:35
Wow okay, I'm not good at this kind of music, so I'm not going to comment on your composition, but your mix needs a TON of work. First off, the general mix is way too muddy. Put an eq on the master and take the mid low to mid high down a tad, secondly that kick is really bad. idk if it was the sample or your mixing of it. I know you were trying to get it to punch harder, but increasing the mid-high range so much didn't help. part of a kicks punch comes from the low end, so turn the mid high way down because it's jarring my skull. If you want the kick to stand out nice and hard, use sidechaining. it doesn't have to be really powerful sidechaining, it just has to be enough to separate the bass and pads from the kick. If you don't know what sidechaining is, its really easy to do and you will end up using it in everything. Basically, whatever you sidechain to the kick to goes down in volume (or compresses) every time the kick hits. this way, you can have a really heavy bassline and a really powerful kick without raping your headroom and clipping. If you want to know how to sidechain, just look it up on youtube. I'm sure there is a plethora of tutorials on the subject. Next, everything is way too in your face. experiment with panning, use a stereorizer on the more high endy instruments and make the master around 60-75% stereo and the kick should be full mono because it helps it hit harder, especially in a club scene. you should bring up the snare and increase the high frequencies and the mid just a tad, to make it hit harder. I'm also not really a fan of the vocals. I know you must have worked hard to glitch them like that but it really hurts my head :/
I think thats about it ^^