AKProductions wrote:thanks for ur comment dude. i think we've been over this ten million times abt mixing in fl studio. so it's pointless for me to talk abt it all over again. regarding other genre as i just said in couple posts above....if it comes...it'll come naturally and i've tried myself and didn't have much luck. if it doesn't flow in, no way i'm gonna force it. if i dont enjoy making the beat, there's no point in making it in the first place since i dont care abt making it big or anything cheers.
btw, Octa and Wafi: can u plz point out wat exactly is wrong with the 'mixing'? I haven't mixed anything yet, but it sounds pretty clean to me so far. can u specify what i need to focus on? sound equalizing and compression? octa, u r using FL studio everyday now so u shd know that u can't 'mix' a beat to a studio quality level in fl studio. or if u actually can, can u please teach me??
I'll tell you what...when you mix vocals over rap beats...it's another story...it's way more simple...
buuut when your actually blending a whole composition there's a lot more to think about...I bet you mix your stuff in your room which is not big at all... you hear stuffs through your speakers...and then in your room it sounds good...buuut outside it sounds a bit muddy...that's why monitoring systems I.E. the speakers you hear through your mixes are important and so is the environment you're working within...
that's becouse of the reflection of the frequencies coused by the wall...I think you know all that stuff already if you don't search something on the internet...
my suggestion here is to get yourself at least some studio monitors headphone like some of those that you can find at 20 bucks...if you can't do that...try to mix your stuff in the studio you got in the college...
if you can't even do that... well compare your works with other professional stuffs...
like stuffs you hear on the Mp3 and shit...
remember only when you really think that you're mix is nearly perfect as the pro stuffs you're compaaring with it you'll know it sounds good...buuut remember... you won't be able to hear the difference that much if you're not using good monitoring system plus environmental shitt...
now sorry for this loong ass lecture...as I think you pretty much know all this stuffs...
BTW other then that I can say try to make the output of the whole mix as low as possible then concetrate on the mastering phase...one of the most common error that people do is actually to get their mixes volume to a too high output so that when they're mastering that shit it becomes a loooooot more muddy..
other then that the mix sounds unclear...many frequencies are like fighting with each other...aand most importantly...try to improve your equalizing shit...buut as I told you before...monitoring system is needed since we're talking about making beats...
is like you're putting reading glasses and you can actually see what you paint or draw or write...so you know how it looks like outside...when you're using normal monitors with normal home enviroment is like you're actually writing with half blinded eyes...very few people will be able to write something CLEAR in that conditions...those are the god gifted...
other then that try to improve your equalizing...as you can't hear with monitors you won't be able to realize how much of equalizing is actually helping or how much is actually damaging the mix...
and another trick is to hear your mixes from ten feet of distance...which sometimes helps a lot...play it in you car...in your mp3 and many other sources...compare it with pro stuffs...
I heard people that make beats outta FL studio and they sound PRETTY good...of course softwares like reason are way better buut...ty to make the most of what you already have...
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