I worked on this one earlier today. Does the bass sound too heavy (like a lot of static)?

Fyyn3stSymphoni said:

I worked on this one earlier today. Does the bass sound too heavy (like a lot of static)?

Fyyn3stSymphoni - "Troubles"

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I think you have 2 many lower-end sounds in the same frequency. move the kick and bass away from each other. this is a nice beat man.

stcbeats said:

I think you have 2 many lower-end sounds in the same frequency. move the kick and bass away from each other. this is a nice beat man.

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Thanks. I'll work on that n repost.. I appreciate the listen n advice bro

Revised this..

stcbeats said:

I think you have 2 many lower-end sounds in the same frequency. move the kick and bass away from each other. this is a nice beat man.

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Did what u suggested & it sounds a lot better.. thanks again

Fyyn3stSymphoni said:

Fyyn3stSymphoni - "Power"

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this beat is nice! the snare snaps ab it loud but when all the elements of the track come together it blends in better. nice work

skidflow said:

this beat is nice! the snare snaps ab it loud but when all the elements of the track come together it blends in better. nice work

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Thanks.. I'll lower the volume of the snare & repost. I appreciate the listen & advice

Fyyn3stSymphoni said:

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I revised it again.

The guitar sample sounds a bit loud in the mix and is jumping out at me a little, its sort of drowning out the drums and everything else. There are some things going on being masked by that guitar sample, I think just turning the guitar sample down a little will help let some of the quieter samples shine through. Kick seems almost non existent, like it needs some EQ work in cutting unnecessary frequencies and boosting the sweet spot. Personally I like my snares loud, but thats a boom bap thing more than a trap thing.

A couple questions, how long have you been making music, and for how long have you been learning the mixing side of things?
Also, what is your monitoring setup? What monitors/headphones are you using?

2GooD Productions said:

A couple questions, how long have you been making music, and for how long have you been learning the mixing side of things?
Also, what is your monitoring setup? What monitors/headphones are you using?

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I been making music for a year now. But have little knowledge on mixing techniques..

My setup is very simple, just a Windows laptop and regular headphones. Nothing special. I been looking to upgrade tho, so let me know if you have suggestions & I'll look into it...

Fyyn3stSymphoni said:

I been making music for a year now. But have little EQ knowledge..

My setup is simple, just a Windows laptop and regular headphones. Nothing special. I been looking to upgrade tho, so let me know if you have suggestions & I'll look into it...

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Okay, based on that I would suggest that you dont concentrate too much on mixing at this point, given your monitoring setup. Im assuming you have an audio interface? If not I think you should start investing in an audio interface, for low latency music creation, a decent pair of flat response studio headphones, or entry level studio monitors to get an accurate representation of what is actually going on so that your decisions are based on an accurate representation of what is going on. Personally headphones might be a better option than studio monitors as an untreated room can ruin an accurate representation that comes from the speakers, EQ is a great starting point to start to learn mixing, you will use EQ's a LOT, EQ's are used to remove harsh frequencies, or to lower a frequency that might be clashing or masking the same frequency on another instrument, it can boost a sweet spot of a sound and make it a bit more present, EQ's is one of the most powerful and fundamental tools of mixing.

If I was you and when I was you I would just worry about putting more beats together, build your toolset of techniques and methods to chop up samples or arrange and compose or even better, both. Try not to get tied down by past beats and try to keep it moving, if something isnt working then move on.
I see you often keep posting the same amended beats, I think you are getting a bit bogged down into the minute details instead of just having fun making beats, for me personally if I had kept going back to beats so much to improve them then Id have gotten bored of making music. Give it a couple years, then do a review, go back and listen to what you made and maybe then make changes and improve them with your new upgraded abilites, and then you will see how far you have come. I have always taken feedback as fuel for my next beat, it let me know where maybe I hadnt paid enough attention to something, or maybe some things that I should look up and start learning to improve an aspect or skill.
Try to keep it moving, have fun and dont take the opinions of others or too seriously and dont take yourself too seriously, you can take the artform as seriously as you like, no limits on that.

I'll look into those headphones and monitors.

After I get EQ's down, I'm start chopping samples & work on diff methods to get it right for sure.

The techniques are still new to me tho, so I dont take criticism too harshly if its not constructive.

& It might just be me, but I enjoy working on the same beats. I want it to sound right. So I repost to get advice on how to do that, to improve my skills and the track & take what I learned into the next beat. But I have fun making new beats and fixing old ones..



- Thanks for the advice

Does this sound better?

Fyyn3stSymphoni said:

& It might just be me, but I enjoy working on the same beats. I want it to sound right. So I repost to get advice on how to do that, to improve my skills and the track & take what I learned into the next beat. But I have fun making new beats and fixing old ones..

- Thanks for the advice

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If it works for you, just keep doing what you do. I can only talk from my own personal experience. When I go back to touch up old beats its usually after a few years have gone by and my skillset has grown and I can hear things I couldn't hear at the time.
Now from a listeners perspective, I dont really want to be giving feedback on the same song 20 times, Id get bored hahahaha. Just joking bro. You do you.

2GooD Productions said:

If it works for you, just keep doing what you do. I can only talk from my own personal experience. When I go back to touch up old beats its usually after a few years have gone by and my skillset has grown and I can hear things I couldn't hear at the time.
Now from a listeners perspective, I dont really want to be giving feedback on the same song 20 times, Id get bored hahahaha. Just joking bro. You do you.

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Learning techniques, then going back to an old track to improve it is a good method... But I repost to get feedback because its helpful.