Just a stab in the dark, OP, but try making your automations by hand while the whole mix is playing. Maybe you are geting too into one track, and details are getting lost, sounds masked, etc and you are ending up spending too much time per track, wasting time, and more importantly energy, where it ...

I feel like you got it, somewhere in you. I see the pieces I think you're looking for in your post.
Figure out your method, and run with it.
I keep it simple, and accept my mistakes. When I am trying to come up with a riff, or drum rhythm, and find one, I find more often than not when I hit the ...

well, if you want to get really in depth with synthesis and what's at play when you're turning the knobs, filters and creating sounds in a synth...
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

Otherwise, the only advice I have to offer is to experiment, and learn about phase cancellation ...

I can relate to your struggle, as I live in Utah currently, where people are even less perceptive to any music outside top 40, trending hip hop or alternative/indie/hipster rock type shit...

I don't try to play anything out because I'm not trying to make it big or anything right now, but even just ...

BRING ON THE HANGOVER!!!


Oh, and happy new year.
So...does this mean the holidays are finally over, and the stnuc responsible for keeping the stores packed non stop can go home so I can get beer in peace, without lines at the store?

Nice n deep. I like it. You might want to try letting some high frequencies bleed through every now and then, like use it as a way to give some tension and release.
Just food for thought/later tunes. Good work!

Quality work here man. Really feeling the subtle stop-and-go vibe in the drums, and those vocals fill in the gaps real nice.

Been getting into layering synths with reverb, like recording a track twice, once without reverb, and again with it, throwing the tracks in audacity, inverting the reverberated track followed by a slight delay 100% wet to nudge the waveform, to align the phases to taste, then turning that inverted ...

Careful m8...

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Merry Christmas all!
First day we get snow in the city, and the storm starts shortly after midnight. How fitting. Might even wake up to snow on the ground

Have an awesome day erryone!

You know what? Challenge accepted. I need to make some new tunes anyways.

I like the contrast in foreground/background here. I think the strings could benefit with a bit of reverb, but I can see why you would choose to not do so.
Musically, I felt something was missing. The drums were nice and busy, the bass comes in good, and the strings weren't too redundant, but ...

Good remix dude.
Drums have nice impact, and that intro is killer imo. I really like what you did there.

Take this with a good grain of salt, because I'm a bit hungover and the heating unit is loud as shit.

I like the ideas you've got going here. Good vibe, good rhythm, and good sounds.
However, I think the hi hats/shakers in the beginning (first minute or so) are too loud, and the rain is a touch too ...

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Been digging the rhythm roulette lately. Pun only slightly intended.

lol some of those comments though...

Was that supposed to be serious?

Been thinking of making a pdf of a lot of the content of this thread because the search keeps bringing me back here, which causes firefox to slow the fuck down for like five minutes depending on the page. I've already copy/pasted bits of it anyways.
I'll actually do it though, if anyone is interested.

OGLemon wrote:Our country wastes so much money, it's almost unbelievable.

Maybe this is why so many people don't care to do anything about it?


All I know, is I wanna find the trash can the gov't throws the extra money in

Wolves in the Throne Room, Coldworld, Burzum, Xasthur and Darkthrone is usually what I rinse autumn thru winter.
I find I remember/discover a lot of bands every time I get into the mood to dive back into black metal.

Not as depressive, and some might argue it's not "tru blackmetal" because it's ...