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1) Learn the ins and outs of a few synths you think you may like, but not too many so that you can get as good with each one as possible. This will help you think about what sounds fit best together in your own opinion (and objectively to anyone) and what aspects of the sound design of a particular sound needs improvement in your own opinion (and objectively to anyone). 2) Familiarize yourself with DAW shortcut commands so that your workflow isn't hindering your learning speed as much as if you didn't know any DAW shortcut commands. 3) Do A/B comparisons of EQ changes, compression edits, reverb tweaks, etc. until you realize which one you subjectively like better and which one objectively sounds less detrimental to the sound. Make sure you can say that you subjectively like better the one that objectively sounds better. That way you aren't teaching yourself backwards, and you can tell (without explicitly comparing to another similar sound/atmosphere) whether or not your edit will be more universally well-received. This is a form of ear training. Having good audio equipment in the first place will help. 4) Actively listen to tracks you admire the production of, and try to analyze why something works well or why something doesn't work well (subjectively to you or objectively to anyone). 5) Learn at least basic music theory. i.e. What key are you in, is it major or minor, what's the tonic / root note, and what sounds harmonically reasonable.

Have you tried lowering any sort of waveshaping/distortion a bit, or perhaps using an internal EQ module (i.e. VCF-EQ in Zebra2) to EQ down any resonances? Chorus could work, but it working may mostly come from the side effect of adding it. i.e. I think chorus will indirectly help, but the other two things would directly help.

Wait, why can't you just write phonetics? Wouldn't that be more intuitive?

This album is so good. The haters are all wrong.

I'm glad I waited this long to give a proper review to this track. Because back then I wouldn't have given this as much credit as I do now. So good. <3

This is sounding much better. I think the bubbly lead may have too much delay as I can hear the delay, but eh. When this first starts, the drums feel very narrow. The cymbal is typically panned more than it is now. Either left or right is fine; I've heard both. The kick sounds pretty good as it is, but the snare can be more dominant. This might help. The guitars sound great; the bass could use more oomph, but it's not necessary.

C'mon guys, let's get those tracks in! :S

I'd be down for that.

Haha, actually, I was just saying that you had made no votes in any of the topics.

Sounds like frequency modulation synthesis with some detuning, multiple voices, and waveshaping/distortion for the pad (somewhat low upper cutoff frequency), and there's granular synthesis on slightly bitcrushed vocals (saying "space") with automation on the grain width. New Sonic Arts Granite is great for the granular synthesis. The radio FX is done with a white noise generator, some pitch bending, delay, and a little band passing. The bass at 2:50 is a filter envelope saw bass with a really low upper cutoff frequency. ----- Big pads are usually fattened with detuning, scaling the harmonics with light distortion, and widening the stereo image.

He was doing something an hour ago. /stalker moment

Will needs to get going on this; he already got a message with my finished mix. >.>

Recall that I've co-volunteered.

You can checkbox Remember Me and/or just make a new post in the old topic.

You can ask a mod to do so, but you could have updated the original topic.

Please don't make a separate topic for the same song to gather attention. Read the sticky.

And that reviewing on a sugar high amounts to... *drumroll* zero votes!

Happy birthday!

Hey Darke, I dunno if you have sub woofers, but can you check and see if the subs are alright on my mix? It's the only thing I'm concerned about right now with regards to this mix. I can't check that myself until Sunday night, which is obviously past Nov. 30.

Done, named, submitted, and PMed.

I can vouch for the mega-ultra usefulness of all these libraries in general.

Almost done with mine! This is gonna be ridiculous.

Happy birthday bro!

I heard the AKG K240 are great, while I'd recommend the Grado SR-60i. The AKGs are normally $160 and are on sale now for $88. The Grados are $80. I don't know what the AKGs sound like, but the Grados have crisp bass and clear treble. Personally, I feel like the Grados are more balanced once I look at the frequency range comparison (8dB is a lot, 4dB isn't too bad of an overboost). You may want to also get a headphone amp to widen the frequency range of your headphones (last I heard, frequency adjustment knobs on headphone amps adjust the threshold of the frequencies outputted to your headphones, which should give an honest result for you to hear). http://musicgearforall.com/ =393&graphID[]=2611&scale=30"]Frequency Range Comparison

It could, though if it didn't, it would be an obligatory team battle! Two other people could be drawn in to collaborate. But let's get back on topic.