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as planet hemp used to sing... "não compre, plante!" "don't buy it, grow!"
and i just can't concentrate on production while on weed.. it starts ok, but after some minutes i catch myself doing things i shouldn't.

I usually work 1 to 2 hours a day on music, so it's kind difficult to get tired. On weekends when i'm inspired or able to work the whole morning and afternoon i take quick breaks at every 2 hours or so.

Well for good reference you want good production. Those tracks you linked are pretty amateurish. I wouldn't use them as a reference at all. What you do with referencing is first, you work out what a well produced song sounds like in you monitoring environment. Then you use that as a guide for mix b...

I have a question that might be silly, don't make sense being asked for being obvious or i may not be able to explain myself correctly. When listening to a reference track, i tend to think it is a bit flattened in that good sense of already being compressed, mastered, etc. So, when taking as referen...

Keep other elements toned down, not so bright, like leads, pads, anything that is meant to be more mid range. This doesn't have to be so harsh, just enough. They might not sound as nice (as the original "full' sound) but it will help the top end of other sounds to stand out. You need to decide what...

Lost to the Void wrote:As I mentioned above, don`t go overboard with mid-side. this is soundsystem music and if you overdo mid-side you can end up with a weak mix.

Alright! I will just mess around with it in a sketch to "listen" how it works.

Thank you for the advise and all your contribution to this forum.

if you are wondering about if it's actually getting lower in volume or if it's just your brain playing a trick on you (which happens all the time btw), just look at the frequency spectrum of your EQ. and for most pads, just use mid/side on your EQ (and leave some fundamental parts of your pad at li...

This is a nice track. The hiss is a bit too loud.. Lower the volume and it will become more pleasant to hear. I like the synth melodies, but it starts to slightly bore me, after listening to 3 or 4 minutes. The drums helps keeping the energy. This is a track that would be good to listen while on the...

Hey, I hope you don't take this too hard and i'm being brutally honest here, but I think you should spend some more time working on your tracks before you post more stuff. There's a lot of work to do, the track has no real low end, the kick is overly clicky and plastic, the drums are thin and all o...

yes, really good this one! catchy and chilli. maybe you could open wide the the high end a little more

nice track! it is simple and driving at the same time. love the groove!

I'm training my ears to work with the passive monitors and amp i have at the moment, so feedback mostly regarding eq and mix for this track is much appreciated. Of course inputs about arrangements, effects, compressors, etc are welcome too! :) This is the furthest i could go on this particular track...

Yes! this is real good and reminded me Atrium Carceri. Keep going with this atmosphere!
I feel like diving into the SEISHINBYOUIN album now..

ahh... and of course there is also Catatonic Despair and Celsung !!

Well, using the beastie boys for example. This has still been produced properly. The skills on display there are still above thst of average bedroom techno producer land. They recorded and engineered that, and it sounds great, but it wasn't thrown together in ableton in a day with a "that will do, ...

I worked more on it since the day i posted the previous clip.
this is how it is sounding now. For sure it still needs the mid and high range work.

I think it starts out a bit too slow, when you can start hearing the synth come in around 30 seconds and builds up over the next minute and continues on for the rest of the song, it doesn't really feel right, maybe you should introduce it with a filter sweep or other form of modulation. I'm not get...

some examples of people who like to sound as if they didn't shape much their work were the beastie boys on their last album and swedish forest psychedelic trance acts ka-sol and battle of the future buddhas.

Their music are cutting edge and in a good way don´t sound thaaaat polished.

This thread reminded me when an uncle said that michael jackson's and madonna's music were the best to test soundsystems.. This was said some 15 to 20 yers ago. Anyone agree with that? and yes.. i think reference tracks really helps to improve the mix. I will try to use some non techno tracks, like ...

The master channel is the single main channel that all your audio comes out of. In other words, if you mute that channel then all your audio stops. This may depend on your DAW, but in Ableton, if you resample your channel it won't include the bus. You need to resample the master channel with only t...