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tell me what the fuck to do???? with compressor on the main track it achieves the punchy effect i'm going for. however, the track is made thin like a cardboard tube.. and trying to pull the details with EQ ontop of the compressor makes it sound worse then, with compressor on only the kick track with the sidechain EQ , the kick is indeed louder but it's not... i dont know.. it doesn't punch. its just literally "ontop" and it sounds bad. where do i find the middle ground? |
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Don't use a compressor. |
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Your finding some problems with what you mix sounds like, so you add compression to it, finding that you are less satisfyed, so you are adding more compression to it, so on and so forth? The answer? Stop using compression. |
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Try some shelving EQ to keep the kick and the other elements from stepping on each other's toes. Also try a shorter decay on the kick and a tiny bit of drum room reverb on it to make it stand out more. I guess it depends on what you want. I like a kick that's like a short little *THUCK* kicking you in the lower back. |
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im just getting rid of it ... i think its just that im doing all of this shit on one software interface and its fucking me up. i get into these corners and its like, 'wow, there is so much shit going on, and it sounds like fucking shit', then i boot up the hardware and i have like the opposite experience, i think i need to take a class on using music software or something before i make anymore |
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you know I've told you this a milion times by now. stop thinking that a compressor will magically make your badly mixed track good. remove all the compression. start by mixing all the volumes and eq-ing. cut the low frequencies of everything that doesn't need it. so your kick can have all the room it needs. NO COMPRESSION anywhere whatsover. only eq. and instead of boosting feq all the time. think about what freq you can cut so that other freq may get more room. |
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Totally agree, stay off compression untill you got the filtering right. A good way to get a really good start with your mix is to keep things as "mono" as possible, if you get your frequencies right in mono it's gonna turn out sounding allot better after panning it out + in mono it's easyer to hear troublesome frequencies and peaks will be more noticeable. |
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