Hi again glad if that could help Thanks for the kind words. Thank you a lot for the headroom tip! I will definitely remember that when mixing my next track I also just bought sonarworks reference 4 hoping that it would help as well as I don't own any expensive piece of equipment. I never mix with a reference track, I think I should start doing it. It's funny how I created a similiar song without even knowing it! Also, if you take that as reference track I see what you mean now when you say my lead sounds are too loud. Also is interesting because I never listened much to Bodzin and I never heard Singularity, but after listening to it I can see some similiarities in the arpeggio and the lead. I actually don't do any volume automation I'm just automating the cutoff of the filter and the decay time of the envelope to get the fat sound. Just curious hereĮDIT : Ah, OK you're on Ableton, I saw it on your previous track feedback post, can't possibly remember every user's DAW of choice though. hahaha, Lol ) the latest Techno Presets Pack has got some nice BODZIN sounds too BTW, don't know if you own ANA 2 but if you do check the latest Presets Pack Vol.9 Techno.Īnd finally what's your DAW of choice ? Live ? Logic ? FL ? Cubase ?. Good work overall and nice one with Arturia mini v3 ( I wish you were using ANA 2. Talking about Bodzin & "Singularity", listen to his album "Power Of Ten" as well as the remixes album, you can use those tracks to reference them against your Mix to help balancing it better ). Not sure about that percussive sound ( kind of High Tom, you can clearly ear it around 4:04 ) sounding a bit dull to me.įor the rest the progression & arrangement is OK and make the track interesting to listen to.
īut overall it's a nice S.Bodzin like track, might even be too much close to it to retain some originality, reminds me the track "Singularity" a lot, but maybe that was the goal, to kind of replicate this genre & sound.
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You have to pay attention to unwanted frequencies ( both in the Lo-end & also high-end frequency spectrum ) and check the peaks on a FFT analyzer such as the free SPAN from Voxengo, it really helps to make adjustments without letting your ears fool you with perceptive loudness & the way we listen to sound, some visual feedback is really helpful to make tighter & more fine adjustments. Think about it this way, if your Kick & Bass already take a lot of energy & high levels, you haven't got room for the other instruments, so you will have a tendency to raise their levels to compensate and the result is a wrong balanced Mix.
Therefore using lower levels on each tracks ( like starting at -14 dB / - 17 dB for the kick ) and re-adjusting each other track's level from there will help you to achieve more compression & get a more transparent result when pushing the Mix through a limiter. The drums levels sounds right for me now, the sub-synth + drums work together but think that when you add tracks in your DAW the levels stack on top of each other & addition themselves. You also have a quite powerful sub-synth bass taking a lot of energy, so you have to watch out for the level of this one as well. Wondering if you are layering several instances to get that fat & very loud synths or if you just used level automation when adding the reverb. Also when you put those through reverb, you seem to have compensate a lot with increasing the volume to retain the synths very clear & present, but that's a bit too much to my listening. So yep, this is now a much more balanced Mix even if there still some issues, the high frequency arpeggio synth & again the main lead synth are still a bit loud especially during some parts of the tracks. But yep, we all have a tendency to "replace" the previous track when it comes to upload, it can be mandatory to keep some space too sometimes Hi again much better now, too bad you didn't kept the first one & replaced the SoundCloud link, it would have helped to be able to compare again ( but I remember how the mix was sounding with the main synth covering almost everything else ).