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[DART - DARK MATTER]

its cool! for future projects i would turn down the sidechain compression a bit tho

Dart-Music responds:

Got it!

[Victory vs. Boss]

this is dope but if you're putting this in a game you need to normalize all the music before putting it in, then adjusting music volume in game.

Ragchomp responds:

Volume adjusted, should see it updated in a bit

[WhirlWind]

throw that bass through fruity waveshaper, and put a compressor on after that (multiband, like maximus), you'll make it sound way better

509Plague responds:

thanks for the tip

[An Expression]

its weird and i dig it. i would turn the drums down just a tad, and throw a multiband compressor on the master channel and increase the pregain to normalize the volume as much as you can. very nice!

Covetous responds:

yo i appreciate the feedback greatly, glad you liked! and yknow i was also thinking the drums could be a little more quiet ngl but i kept second guessing

[Hunts Ketchup (Old)]

hunts ketchup > heinz

I dig chiptune stuff. One of the genres I could never figure out how to make, so mad respect.

I would experiment with panning. That will make your mix sound more wide, and you could even have different instruments play against each other (which always sounds cool). Other thing I think the pregain on the master is a tad high.

I dig it dude. Keep it up.

Veenomn responds:

Thank you :)

[Proton]

yes sir this sounds mau5 influenced. he's one of my favorite artists.
if you want a more mau5 song, for that pluck, instead of automating an ADSR to the volume, set the ADSR to the filter cutoff.

throw some delay onto the pluck as well, and reverb on that piano synth sound would be great.

I saw mobile was in the tags, I'm assuming you made this on a DAW like FL Mobile? I recommend buying a version on a PC, you have way more possibilities.

Don't stop making music!

FirechompGD responds:

Yes, I made this on mobile with caustic 3, a synthesizer based daw, There are some limitations of my DAW since the max tracks it can handle is only 14 and I'm still learning. Thanks you for your feedback!!

[Inside the Storm]

Mix sounds dope, I would turn the pregain on the master channel. Love the production! You got some skills man

TSRBand responds:

Thanks for tuning in! ♪ ♫

[S.H.D.T.Y.A.P.]

I don't listen to metal a lot, but I thought this was really cool. For future reference, I think your mix would sound much better with a few tweaks:
On the master channel, I would add more compression on the low band of the multiband compressor (just a hair!). Also on the master channel, I would turn the pregain down a bit. In some parts of the songs, I heard the music hitting the ceiling of the limit too hard.

A tad more high end on the kick would be cool, with a tad less low end (this may be fixed with the more compression on the low end of the multiband compressor mentioned earlier).

Less distortion on the vocals would be good, just mix it in a little less.

These are just some things I would change if I was behind the mix! Overall the mix sounds good! And if a mix sounds good, it is good (but there is always room for improvement).

Great work!

FourTHat3 responds:

Whoa, I never thought I would get a response for my mix haha, well I would like to reply to your concern on the mix.

I purposefully amplified the master volume by about 20% more than the average because I thought that it wasn't loud enough, I usually don't do this on some of my other songs and I would never mess with the master channel unless I have to. But I also noticed that it's going over the limit in about 2.0 decibels higher so I think I might've crapped on the mix a bit lol. I also haven't touched the bass boost on the izotope mastering essentials so I pretty much effed up the mix and the low-end might've dominated the mix than being balanced with the other frequencies.

Regarding the kick, I actually do not know how to fix the high-end on the bass since I put it all of the drum channels on only one channel and not seperate them because I think it sounds fine on it's own. I guess I also effed up there didn't I? Hahaha, Maybe I'll set up the kick-trigger channel more and seperate it to another channel so I can modify it later on to boost it's high-end. Alternatively, I can put 3 kick channels together and modify it on that, but I'm pretty afraid that it would sound more muddy and messy hahaha, thanks for the tip though, I really appreciate it and I'll try to incorporate that into my future songs.

As for vocals, I just used a preset (Vocal - Studio) and used the in-app distortion, (Acoustica Distortion) lowered the pre-gain a bit, have a little more distortion and set the post-gain to almost none, all while ignoring the presets on their own.

Gotta admit I'm quite lazy sometimes, but at the end of the day, I want to produce a song that's well-mixed and more sensible rather than just being loud and ignoring the mix altogether and relying on presets rather than adjusting them a little bit. I was in a pretty bad state since I wrote this song haha, but I'll try my best to improve my producing skills rather than relying on what the mixcraft has handed me and just rely on presets rather than adjusting to my liking. I'm an amateur musician and producer after all and I wanted to learn more than what I currently have, it's why I'm very thankful that I have this kind of comment, reminds me a bit of my composition teacher lol, but yeah thank you for the suggestions and wonderful comment!