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for the same reason your drums don't hit as hard, your bass doesn't rattle as deep, and your vocals don't sound as crisp: you haven't learned how to write, perform, record, and process sounds to sound as good as the guys who are at the top of the game.

you cannot compare a dry synth patch to a sound in a mix; your perception of the sound in the mix will be completely skewed by everything else that's going on. deep bass, sparkly hats, and lush verb will make the synth sound huge, even though the odds are that if you were in the mix room and hit solo on the other guy's motif track it'd sound tiny and bandpassed.

context is everything. write the song, mix the mix, *then* tell us how your motif sounds.


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