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[Rock Chalk]

Ok, this is literally the first time I have ever tried to record and post anything with drums and bass, and is just me strumming a couple chords over a beat.

Just curious as to what other people think of the mix.....is it a jumbled up mess? Does it sound like something you could work with? Is anything glaringly overdone?

Again, just strumming a couple chords, but you gotta start somewhere.....right? Thanks

 

[PLX]

To my ears, sounds like you need a compressor on the bass track.

 

[fretworn]

Nice toanz!

Awesome to put it out there. Congrats

I got bit hard by the write/record/engineer/production bug. So much to learn for me.

My key suggestion would be to bring the drum mix up a bit.

 

[fretworn]

To my ears, sounds like you need a compressor on the bass track.

+1

I think there’s a lot of things you can do in there for fun, along with sidechaining to the kick (and some harmonics/saturation to get some >350hz on the bass).

Make both of those instruments pop out of the mix a bit more.

 

[Rock Chalk]

To my ears, sounds like you need a compressor on the bass track.

So. if I'm using Reaper, is that something that's included...or a plug-in that you buy?

 

[fretworn]

So. if I'm using Reaper, is that something that's included...or a plug-in that you buy?

I don’t know reaper at all … Go look in the provided f/x or strip inserts?

I would imagine EQ and compression would be common/incl but I know it has a little bit different business model versus Logic (which comes loaded with great native plugs).

Just keep doing this whole process over and over. Let go of tunes after a while, and do another. Don’t spend a month mixing something.

I like the challenges because they are only one week long.

Practice comp to mix/master has really helped me a lot in the last nine months. Learned a ton. Still learning

 

[Rock Chalk]

I don’t know reaper at all … Go look in the provided f/x or strip inserts?

I would imagine EQ and compression would be common/incl but I know it has a little bit different business model versus Logic (which comes loaded with great native plugs).

Just keep doing this whole process over and over. Let go of tunes after a while, and do another. Don’t spend a month mixing something.

I like the challenges because they are only one week long.

Practice comp to mix/master has really helped me a lot in the last nine months. Learned a ton. Still learning

I will have a look.......learning this DAW stuff is another whole world.....and they say the Fractal is hard to learn!

Thanks for the feedback!

 

[PLX]

So. if I'm using Reaper, is that something that's included...or a plug-in that you buy?

You can use ReaComp, which comes with Reaper.

I like the UA-1176, myself.

 

[fretworn]

So the thing that really helped me learn was finding DAW/mixer guys on YouTube, that I trusted to teach me Logic and how to use things like EQ and compression on tracks.

This is a deep hole with lots of goofy information, but if you stick with it, you’ll figure it out some value.