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[Crossing]

I'm working on a remix, and I'm trying to make is quite serine- the kind of music you would meditate to. I've got a flute in the mix, which I like, but it sounds a little "harsh." Is there any way to make it taking "the edge off," instead of just making it quieter?

[SonicThHedgog]

I'm working on a remix, and I'm trying to make is quite serine- the kind of music you would meditate to. I've got a flute in the mix, which I like, but it sounds a little "harsh." Is there any way to make it taking "the edge off," instead of just making it quieter?

Drop the high end?

you need to post the song.

[Crossing]

Drop the high end?

you need to post the song.

Dropping the High ends worked, thanks:-D

I will post the song in a day or two, it's for the

Texas Microphone Massacre Remix Contest

At Acidplanet.com

[Rozovian]

Yeah post it. We can't tell what you mean by harsh, so it's difficult to offer a good solution.

Some possible solutions are, as hedgog already suggested, to reduce the high frequencies with and equalizer. You could also use reverb to push it back a bit, or the sampler's filter to make the softening respond to the note pitch some. There could also be specific frequencies that are harsh, and those would probably need some specific EQ-ing to get rid of. If the flute is created by a synth (as in, not in a sampler/sampled/recorded/real/audio file(s) etc) you could screw with the synth patch to find and reduce whatever's making it harsh.

And making it quieter might also be a good idea. There's the possibility that the harshness comes from it just being too loud. If the whole mix is too loud, there could be clipping... which is harsh. If the flute is the only thin too loud, any frequencies that would otherwise just blend in might just be too loud in comparison to the rest of the mix.

Or it could just be a bad sound, and you can't tell yet. Post it.