Your Mom loves your mixes, but are they really up to scratch? Post your tracks here and get the community's feedback to help with the spit and polish. Impress us! We don't bite.
JD01 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 6:38 pm
No worries, miner. Cheers for the tips.
Just making sure you don't take it the wrong way dude...thick skin is a must for a musician who records at home...
JD01 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 6:38 pmI've actually got all of the reverb and ambience off in EZD and everything is sent to the track reverb. I think they're just very familiar EZD samples that everyone has heard before. Been thinking of upgrading to SD for a little while now. Might have to take the plunge before too long.
I like Superior 1,000,000 times better than EZD, I've never used EZD2, but Superior is more like mixing a real kit to me...
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JD01 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 6:38 pm
No worries, miner. Cheers for the tips.
Just making sure you don't take it the wrong way dude...thick skin is a must for a musician who records at home...
JD01 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 6:38 pmI've actually got all of the reverb and ambience off in EZD and everything is sent to the track reverb. I think they're just very familiar EZD samples that everyone has heard before. Been thinking of upgrading to SD for a little while now. Might have to take the plunge before too long.
I like Superior 1,000,000 times better than EZD, I've never used EZD2, but Superior is more like mixing a real kit to me...
haha, I've been posting shit up for critique to learn about recording long enough to know that, mate!
Yeah - I'll just get SD and have a good browse of the packs available to find one that I really like. I'm pretty sure that I won't have to re-programme all of my existing MIDI. Just re-mix it. Now I've got quite a few projects together I've got quite a big crib sheet of drums to draw from without using any stock EZ Drummer beats.
JD01 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:48 am
haha, I've been posting shit up for critique to learn about recording long enough to know that, mate!
JD01 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:48 amYeah - I'll just get SD and have a good browse of the packs available to find one that I really like. I'm pretty sure that I won't have to re-programme all of my existing MIDI. Just re-mix it. Now I've got quite a few projects together I've got quite a big crib sheet of drums to draw from without using any stock EZ Drummer beats.
Superior is good man, but you will have to re-program certain articulations/midi notes when you switch...That's a big gripe I have with all the drum vsti's, they each have their own mappings & it's never 100% plug-n-play...
Another thing is each drum vsti (Superior, Addictive, Slate, etc) react differently to the velocities you feed 'em...IE: the snare will sound great using a kit from Slate, but feeding the same midi to a Toontrack kit, the snare will sound soft/wimpy...
You'll figure it out though dude, you just have to roll up your sleeves & dig into it...
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Ido sent me some more vocal files that he's improved a touch more and also Ali has been listening to it and kept saying that I had the vocal singing behind the beat so I've moved all of the vocal forward by a few ms and it actually makes a big difference - makes it sound less lazy!
I get that you want the drums to sound human and you're using velocity variance to achive that, but you might be over-doing it. The difference between the loud snare hits and the soft ones might be too large. Like, I "notice" it too much, and I wasn't listening for it. Maybe make the softer hits just a little louder but still keep them lower than the hard hits.
Yes - the slight shift makes a difference - good one!
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rammer24 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:03 pm
That sounds pretty good.
I get that you want the drums to sound human and you're using velocity variance to achive that, but you might be over-doing it. The difference between the loud snare hits and the soft ones might be too large. Like, I "notice" it too much, and I wasn't listening for it. Maybe make the softer hits just a little louder but still keep them lower than the hard hits.
Cheers, rami. The programming on this pre-dates "The Fascist Tangerine" that you gave me so much help with. Other older songs that I'm redoing at the moment are getting totally new projects based on my latest template so I'm taking the time to re-fresh the drum programming. I didn't do that with this one. Cheers. Some of the minerman tips make this really easy to fix!
ido1957 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:05 pm Yes - the slight shift makes a difference - good one!
Yeah, she's been bugging me about it for a while and I just wasn't hearing it. As soon as I moved everything forward a bit it just sounded more urgent.
She doesn't have an interface so she can't just time align her files with my track so I have to line it up manually.
Yes - the slight shift makes a difference - good one!