[Free Instrumental] Rap Rock Beat with Live Guitar and Bass; How is the mix??
Posted Jan 17, 2019, 1:52 AM UTC
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Beat is nice but the mix needs some work. The ride cymbal is a bit too loud and seems to move around in the stereo field. Maybe take some of the low end out of it and pan it away a bit, it should be background, not forefront.
Are you using busses to to process everything together in the mix? Everything could be glued together a bit more if it shared the same reverb/eq/compression.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm pretty amateur so everything has it's own channel and there are no buses. I played with the panning for the ride to make it alternate. I was going for a spacey feeling. How would you fix the panning?
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Ah ok, definitely look into using busses, it helps a lot with making everything sit well together while also having its own space. Yeah I get the spacey feeling, but drums are one thing I personally wouldn't do it with. Drums and bass are supposed to be the foundation that everything else is based off of. If you imagine a drumkit playing in front of you or in your head, just try to pan each drum/cymbal to where you think it would be.
I just posted my track on the sub which uses reverb, panning and delays to create a spacey feel if you want to give it a listen. Listen through headphones to get the proper feel.
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Mix sounds clean on my monitors m8. Very punchy very tight.
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Watch where you pan your "staples" I.E. hats kick snare cymbals or anything that's keeping a repetitive groove. I'll always keep my kick and snare centered and maybe move the hat a little to the side and the cymbal a little to the other side. there's another way I've been doing it lately with M Audio Spectral Pan. this lets you choose which frequencies hit which speaker. you get all of the width without having anything poke out from the mix.
Nice arrangement and I hope to see more of your stuff.
that is a cool vst. Thanks for listening