wow u have had a lot of replies since yesterday lol. what i meant by tone balanced basses is that each bass roughly needs the same kind of frequencies (i just use my ears and check if it all sounds right). i like to put the same kind of impact on each bass by making sure if 1 of the basses are phat/loud/punchy in the low end, then i cant have any other basses in the song that lack that feel to it. it doesnt have to be that way but i normally tweak/layer basses to get each sound to compliment each other if they dont sit together too well. also i try to EQ most individual sounds seperately! (i didnt do it so much with sinful minds, i rushed the song as its a WIP).acrap wrote:excellent advice but quick question what does it mean for the basses to be "tone balanced?" i've heard from plenty of people to just consider making a song straight from one bass patch and small alterations to it in order for me to get the hang of it before i start introducing new sounds. You did a really great job on "sinful minds" you have alot of sounds that compliment eachother extremely well on the drop that's more or less the feeling or character that i want my drops to have but it seems like it takes alot of work for all the sounds to work in unison like that. Another side note is that i feel the rhythm in which the sounds are played helps the compliment of sounds and thats something i havent gotten down packed yet. If you could get into more detail on how you constructed that tune it'd be appreciated thanks
making my song was easy on the bass side, its actually very repetitive. how i made it sound less repetitive is with foreground sounds like little arpeggios playing at different parts as the basses are playing AND plenty of white noise whooshes and sweeps, square waves pitch bending in the back and all reverbed/delayed plenty, also spooky ambient (drone) sounds, which were done by timestretching and reverbing unusual sounds.
theres nothing else worth noting to how i did the song apart from having a catchy melody. the melody structure is what makes the song sound somewhat listenable, the sounds aren't brilliant and are kind of crap at some parts
its all about the little details in the back that makes things more enjoyable.try to listen to songs more in depth and pick out all the little sounds you can hear! id say its REALLY important to have these little details in songs so hope u can learn from this! its dead simple to do, takes a while sometimes but its a good way of sounding more "pro" lets say.
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The vocal part has some terrible dc offset!
