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Hey! I just did a new instrumental. If someone wants to listen: https://soundcloud.com/mikkoorbit/sat-i ... bay-lights

Thoughts? Thanks

Nice! It sounds a bit like Autechre, Orbital etc. Good work there Mikko.

Have to say I really like this, it has a very immediate 80’s feeling to it, and what I mean by that is not just the sounds, it has that kind of sound like there’s subtle story about to be told, something to be revealed, but you have to try hard to figure it out....

Does that make any sense to anyone?

Mikko wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 19, 2019 7:43 pm

Hey! I just did a new instrumental. If someone wants to listen: https://soundcloud.com/mikkoorbit/sat-i ... bay-lights

Thoughts? Thanks

Sounds good! Reminds me Miami vice theme

Thanks you all for the comments!!

I would like to ask you what do you do to improve the mixing and the mastering. I'm working in some instrumentals right now and I would like to improve. I level, pan some of the tracks and use eq fx to remove very high and low frequencies. Then I add a little bit of stereo enchancer fx and a loud max compressor to the master track. Still, I feel that's not enough and sounds low. Am i missing any tip?

Mikko wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 19, 2019 7:43 pm

Hey! I just did a new instrumental. If someone wants to listen: https://soundcloud.com/mikkoorbit/sat-i ... bay-lights

Thoughts? Thanks

Now this sounds cool.

Tip: Okay. I think the entire track, sounds a bit too compressed. Too much compression, or turning too much of a dial on a compressor, can make a tune sound a bit dullish, and make it sound less bright and colourful.

brandystarbrite wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 29, 2019 3:12 am

Mikko wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 19, 2019 7:43 pm

Hey! I just did a new instrumental. If someone wants to listen: https://soundcloud.com/mikkoorbit/sat-i ... bay-lights

Thoughts? Thanks

Now this sounds cool.

Tip: Okay. I think the entire track, sounds a bit too compressed. Too much compression, or turning too much of a dial on a compressor, can make a tune sound a bit dullish, and make it sound less bright and colourful.

This is good advice,

I find that if your compressing anywhere above an added 3.5db the levels in the mix are wrong.

What i found the most helpful tool when finishing a track is 'Voxengo SPAN', apply it to each instrument as an effect (But dont leave them all turned on as it will drain your processor of brain power), then when at the end of a project when you feel you are finished mixing, look at your levels of each track one by one as the song is playing and make note of them, SPAN will show you where your sound has peaked on a meter on the side and at the bottom of its GUI, you can then see if one instrument that you thought was ok is actually a lot weaker thany you think and needs to be adjusted with either volume or at the fader on the mixer to bring the level up before you export or 'Bounce' your track out.

That way any compression that you do have to use at the very very end will be minimal, and hopefully only in around a change of 2db to 3db

Is that any help?

thank you so much, gonna try these tips!!

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