This is a track by Mish Mash and myself. Its our first ever attempted tune so tell us what you think. All feedback is welcome.
Also if anybody has any cool ideas as a name for us let us know because we haven't thought of one yet.
Cheers!
I think lackluster is definitely the word, it needs a few extra bits and pieces to give it more character maybe.
With production I've been mucking around with cubase for just under a year now so definitely a bit of production experience in the bag but this is the first full track produced as of yet.
I think your right about the bass needing to be beefier. I think the sub levels about right, I had to turn it down after Mish Mash played it out at Bacchus and the subwoofer was having to work overtime but the bass mids could use some work. Any tips for achieving this? I might put some compression on the bass bus and see what happens.
Cheers for the comments!
personally I would use some more automated/flo'd FX to fill the sound up a bit, boost the midrange to get the detail out, and run thru all the layers with plenty of notch eq, esp around the kick/snare freqz and low mid-range, then add gentle (or not so) compression to each layer till its tight, then more gentle compression on the bass buss.
You could also split the bass off into further channels and give each channel seperate FX for extra beef, space and dirt, if you are feeling adventurous, lots of filters morphing the sound about across the phrases
the sub working over-time...did you hi-pass your bass at 40Hz-ish? (depending on the subs main body) may need a 2-pass on there, do it before you add compression, also put a spec-analyzer on your master out to see whats going on in the sub-sub range, those very low freqz can make it difficult to compress a bass line to perfection and will pull the midrange right back into the mix the more you try to compress
personally I would use some more automated/flo'd FX to fill the sound up a bit, boost the midrange to get the detail out, and run thru all the layers with plenty of notch eq, esp around the kick/snare freqz and low mid-range, then add gentle (or not so) compression to each layer till its tight, then more gentle compression on the bass buss.
You could also split the bass off into further channels and give each channel seperate FX for extra beef, space and dirt, if you are feeling adventurous, lots of filters morphing the sound about across the phrases
the sub working over-time...did you hi-pass your bass at 40Hz-ish? (depending on the subs main body) may need a 2-pass on there, do it before you add compression, also put a spec-analyzer on your master out to see whats going on in the sub-sub range, those very low freqz can make it difficult to compress a bass line to perfection and will pull the midrange right back into the mix the more you try to compress
Cheers for the advice man I'll give that stuff a go! We did put two high passes on the master at about 30Hz and the analyser didn't show anything too wild in the really low end. I might give your technique of high passing the sub before compression though, what's the advantage of this?
Here's the version Mish Mash played out for comparison, I reckon it sounds better than the original version posted, apart from the problem with the bass: