[Dsompa - Shinan (Sangoma Records) out Oct 13th]

I made a 10 mins preview mix of all tracks from my new EP 'Shinan'.

Release date is 13th October, 3 days left!!

 

http://www.soundcloud.com/dsompa/shinan

[Final Mixdown Tips.]

Well this is how i usually do it..This is just a rough guideline the main idea is to use your ears, if it sounds good its good..

 

First i make sure the kick is peaking at -8db and both the kick & the bass around -6db..

 

As for the rest of the elements i usually have a group with my high hats..Another with my snare & other percussion sounds & one for the synth sounds..

 

Another important thing is to make sure that you're highpassing everything except the kick & the bass..This can vary from 100Hz to 300Hz, again it depends on each sound..

 

The rest just comes with time, a good idea is to make sure that when you're setting levels & eq'ing your synth sounds you don't solo them but listen to them with all the other elements..Otherwise you might spend ages making it perfect on its own & then when you put the sound with the rest you'll notice it getting drowned out in the mix..

 

Finally its really important to have good monitoring, my mixing skills really improved once i got a good set of monitors..Before that it was just hit & miss, i had to listen to lots of other sources & go back & correct the mix..With a good set of monitors i pretty much nail the mix the first time round..

 

Hope this helps..

 

 

Read this one, cause this guy knows his stuff.

I could also add, use a high pass filter on kick and bass so that it filters out frequencies below ~ 35 Hz. It might sound less good on your system, but for larger sound systems its better to keep away from them lower freq's.

 

Getafix does it properly and good addition from Franklin. Not so much to add, this is how I'm doing it:

 

Kick & Bass

I am using for the kick fabfilter pro-q. I always set a lowcut (shape 48) to ~ 35hz and a highcut (same shape) to ~ 6000hz. And I'm doing the same stuff on the bass. On the bass eq I always set some bells (very slim band) and pull it up to detect the disharmonics. After muting the disharmonic frequencies down a bit with the gain of the bell band. You will hear that the bass sound comes alot smoother. Finally you can add fabfilter saturn (a good setting to start you'll find in the presets calles -> mastering ->bass) and then mess around a bit. The level peaks I leave like -11db bass, -10.5db kick. I'm using a fx bus with sugarbytes turnado in Cubase as send bus for kick and bass to automate beatmanipulation and lowcut / highcut filter.

 

EQ

http://www.fabfilter.com/products/pro-q-2-equalizer-plug-in

 

Multiband Distortion

http://www.fabfilter.com/products/saturn-multiband-distortion-saturation-plug-in

 

Beat Manipulation

http://www.sugar-bytes.de/content/products/Turnado/index.php?lang=en

 

 

Drums

I leave the peaks around -15db, depending on the drumsound, also with fabfilter proq on the snare I leave more sub freqs (~ 180hz) then on the other drums (~ 400hz). And I'm routing them into a drums bus for several effects on the drums. Eddie kramer drumchannel from waves is nice for hihats.

 

Waves Drumchannel

http://www.waves.com/plugins/eddie-kramer-drum-channel

 

 

FX & Leads

Also here I'm using fabfilter to eq (at least ~ 280hz lowcut), the levels around -15 to -18db, depending on which sound it is. Reverbs are nice for putting a room answer, for example Trueverb or Roomworks from Cubase. With the predelay you set how 'far away' the sound is, from 5ms - 30ms it sounds far away and everything above 30ms will be recognized as delay.

 

Trueverb

http://www.waves.com/plugins/trueverb

 

Roomworks

https://cdn.tutsplus.com/audio/uploads/legacy/15_thickandcrunchy/add%20roomworks%20to%20group.jpg

 

 

Very useful to have an fx channel (to use it as send) for a nice delay (Dubstation f.e.) to use it on several channels.

http://www.audiodamage.com/effects/product.php?pid=AD006

 

Before exporting make sure you removed all effects (limiter, compression, mulitband etc) from the master!!!