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Hey everyone, I've been lurking around the site for over a year, this site has pretty much taught me most of what I know about production. So thanks for this amazing resource

Finally decided to start posting, and I have a question that I can't seem to figure out the answer to. As a general guideline, how would one suggest I mix in effect samples? for example, I'm putting together a short House tune, and am using a couple of Vengeance FX samples. Mostly downsweeps to transition from one block of a song to another. I have most of my instruments set where I want them (following the guidelines Macc posted in the "Moneyshot" thread). With the kick at -8 Db and the rest of the instruments below that. However, I cant seem to find a good place to sit these types of FX transition sounds in my mix. are they suppose to overpower and drown out everything temporarily on impact? I guess I just don't fully understand how to work with these types of sounds. Maybe someone could give me some advice or put me in the right direction?

Looking forward to continuing to post here. Cheers

Extremely vague question here man. Try EQing out some of the high frequencies to make the FX sit in the background more or just simply turn down the volume. EQ out some of the frequencies where your other instruments sit because you don't want it covering up their sound.

OfficialDAPT wrote:Extremely vague question here man. Try EQing out some of the high frequencies to make the FX sit in the background more or just simply turn down the volume. EQ out some of the frequencies where your other instruments sit because you don't want it covering up their sound.

Thanks!

Follow your ears is the best advice I can give. After all, it is your music at the end of the day.

Cheers!

I find these sounds to be the hardest to mix..I think you should try to find sounds that fit your tune so they can be louder, like in some tunes those risers etc are quite loud but it just sounds like its a part of the midbass etc so they dont take all the attention but you can hear that there is somekind of riser without thinking it too much if you know what im trying to say

EQing. It's a long and hard process but you'll get better at it. There are times you will have to sacrifice one frequency or another. You simply cannot have two of the same frequencies clashing with each other. Just do your best and take your time.

just automate volume "ride the faders", when that fx is rising up, bring other stuff down, it can create the illusion of the rise getting louder with it actaully not

What I've start doing is ducking them right down in the mix so they are too quiet. Then getting an EQ putting a big boost in (10-15db or so) and sweeping to find where it sits best in the mix. After that bring that extreme setting down a bit, HP and LP filter and then bring the sound in till it fits in nicely.