The Official "Please Check Out My Mix/ Music" Thread

[Pair-A-Dyce]

Someone tell me how the vocals sound on this pls evil kind sirs...

[wwjd]

my first rap mix ever. so I'm laying it out here for you to tear me a new one.
please ignore all performance errors and focus on the mix and what sucks and how to improve it. This project was meant to be completed in 2 hours from initial concept to final master. Ended up taking 6 :(

Yes, I'm new here and have a low post count. I've usually over at HC but they have no "RAP" area. I'm happy to give back when the opportunity presents itself. Thanks!

[wwjd]

hmmmm.... I listened to a few posts, and many sound very good and commercial, but I have no comments because I lack experience in this style of music. Sorry! I tried.

[Mr. Wise]

I made this track about 30 songs ago and really liked... now something is off to me and I can't figure it out.

Can anyone help me out?

[Storyville]

Originally Posted by Pair-A-Dyce

Someone tell me how the vocals sound on this pls evil kind sirs...

Stevie Wonder sample out of nowhere! Vocals are just a notch loud for my taste.

[Storyville]

Originally Posted by wwjd

my first rap mix ever. so I'm laying it out here for you to tear me a new one.
please ignore all performance errors and focus on the mix and what sucks and how to improve it. This project was meant to be completed in 2 hours from initial concept to final master. Ended up taking 6 :(

Yes, I'm new here and have a low post count. I've usually over at HC but they have no "RAP" area. I'm happy to give back when the opportunity presents itself. Thanks!

This song is awesome! I was cracking up.

[Storyville]

Originally Posted by Mr. Wise

I made this track about 30 songs ago and really liked... now something is off to me and I can't figure it out.

Can anyone help me out?

It has less high end that many commercial releases, and less volume, but turning it up - it really has a nice sense of space and texture. It does lack something - but it might not lack anything once vocals are in. I like it though. Some of the tones all around could have some more mid/upper mid happening (snare and kick in particular).

[wwjd]

Originally Posted by Storyville

This song is awesome! I was cracking up.

Thanks! Any MIX feedback? trying to get better.
It didn't start out to be funny... more of a SPEED WRITING/MIXING experiment. Just ended up more funny somehow. Anyway, I'm more concerned with mixing it Genre correct. needs more low end, less compression is what I hear so far.
Thanks for listening.

[Shiz]

Just a mix i did recently and would like as much feedback as possible....whether negative or positive.....just looking for feedback....please send it in a message so i cant be sure to get it....Thanx....


No Ceremony.mp3



Sorry I cant figure out how to just make it play like everyone else so you have to download it...lol...sorry again....

[Mr. Wise]

Originally Posted by Storyville

It has less high end that many commercial releases, and less volume, but turning it up - it really has a nice sense of space and texture. It does lack something - but it might not lack anything once vocals are in. I like it though. Some of the tones all around could have some more mid/upper mid happening (snare and kick in particular).

Thank you. I trying to re-mix it now and bring the hats out and clean up the low end. But its hard because all I have is headphones. I keep running back and forth to the car lol.

[Starshine]

Originally Posted by Pair-A-Dyce

Someone tell me how the vocals sound on this pls evil kind sirs...

I liked the overall song but it really lacks excitement.
I mean the hook sound a lil bit flat when you expect it to go wild.
Imo if you 're gonna keep the "LCR mixing" you should at least stack harmonies for the hook to make it sound different from the verse.

like I said I liked it tho.

[MysticRecording]

Hey Guys, any opinions are welcome...Thanks!

Nathan.

p.s., same song, first mp3 has more compression.

[sblicious]

may I have feedback from you guys on this one beat?

[Pair-A-Dyce]

Originally Posted by Starshine

I liked the overall song but it really lacks excitement.
I mean the hook sound a lil bit flat when you expect it to go wild.
Imo if you 're gonna keep the "LCR mixing" you should at least stack harmonies for the hook to make it sound different from the verse.

like I said I liked it tho.

cool, thanks. yeah I was considering having a male singer do some layers on the hooks to enhance it a bit.

[kac123ige]

hey wassup yall im jus postin a beat im makin here this is maybe my 15th beat lolz but to get u guys opinion about it would be great so thanks for ANY responsees =]

[Kryptik]

My other post was closed, cause I guess it belonged in here... so here's the short version.

We were robbed, can't afford my regular album engineer or studio for my mixtape. Reserved for album work only.

I grabbed some gear to throw together reference tracks. Now I'm hoping it will be good enough for tracking my mixtape.

here's a link to some stems, and what I would normally supply as a reference.
http://www.trackstash.com/swan/sample.zip

Curious if I was to supply a package like that could someone mix it into something mixtape worthy? For $50-$100 per song? Or am I dreaming? I would supply the beats multi-tracks. NOT stereo mp3 like in this package.


I've attached my attempt at mixing it.


Verse wise, how's the mixing? Could engineers that work for under $100 get it considerably better?

On my myspace:
Hempire Records on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos

there's 2 songs I've had professionally mixed. One ft crooked I, mixed by Roger Swan, and mixed and recorded at Green House in Vancouver (pro studio), and other by Daniel Elmes at Dub Vibes (basement studio).

I'd like the mixtape songs to sit comfortable beside those tracks if possible, but obviously do not expect the same calibre. It is a mixtape and low budget after all.

[kac123ige]

i have another beat to post this is my first attempt at some sort of club beat lolz its incomplete but here is this sample of it

PLEASE TELL ME WUT U THINK ABOUT THIS ONE AND THE ONE I POSTED RIGHT ABOVE LMAO

[Equiv_Exchange]

E-40 is having a remix contest for his latest single "The Server" and I recently finished my submission. Feedback would be greatly appreciated:



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[FredYeah]

Hey all!

Just wondering what you guys think about this kind of stuff.

[fooloof]

Originally Posted by Equiv_Exchange

E-40 is having a remix contest for his latest single "The Server" and I recently finished my submission. Feedback would be greatly appreciated:



Listen here: LimeLinx - File Preview - Free File Hosting and Sharing - Audio, Video, Image




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i think it's pretty good. i am more familiar with old 40 (Federal and In a Major Way, stuff like that). of the more recent stuff, i've heard the "snap ya fangaz" song with lil jon and the hyphy song. anyway, this beat suits his style in my opinion. i don't know if it's hot enough to win the contest, but i like it. the only thing i would recommend is to try and fatten up the main synth stab...meaning the one you use as your bass line. it sounds a little thin to me.

[excLOUsiv]

This is a mix of beats I did last year while going through some records I had for ages (some for about a decade) but never got around to sampling them.

excLOUsiv - AS ONE - excLOUsiv/1Eight Productions - SoundCloud

There is also a quick remix of a song that was posted in a thread here on gearsluts.

Getting a raw, nasty '70s funk sound in the box Post #71

If you don't like my shit fuuck

I get better on my own time regardless, and I stick to making the kinda shit I like to hear.

[Equiv_Exchange]

Originally Posted by fooloof

i think it's pretty good. i am more familiar with old 40 (Federal and In a Major Way, stuff like that). of the more recent stuff, i've heard the "snap ya fangaz" song with lil jon and the hyphy song. anyway, this beat suits his style in my opinion. i don't know if it's hot enough to win the contest, but i like it. the only thing i would recommend is to try and fatten up the main synth stab...meaning the one you use as your bass line. it sounds a little thin to me.

Thank you for the feedback man! Yeah, I may have cut too much of the lows out of the supersaw. D'oh! I already submitted it though. I probably should have posted it here before I submitted. Ah. Live and learn

[kac123ige]

anybody have any thoughts about my beats above?

[bluntslide]

Hey you guys, Ive been lurking on these forums for a long time, just recently decided to sign up. I just wanna say theres alot of great stuff on this forum and it has really helped me learn alot.
That being said Id like to post up the latest instrumental I made, finished it yesterday. Ive only been producing music for a couple years but I like o think Ive made some huge strides so far. Recently I spent about a couple weeks straight reading up on mixing, and trying some diffrent plugins and what not, not even making anything new, just experimenting, and I think my production has really improved because of it. Still tho comparing my song to a commercial song still doesnt feel right, I was hoping you guys could check it out and let me know what you think, where I can try to focus my efforts to get better!

[CRACKPIPE]

I got it mastered, not that you can tell from the youtube. I don't know, can you?

It's amazing what a little love from an experienced mastering engineer will do for your song. Wow!!!!! Like night and day. So warm.

And the waveform isn't completely brickwalled. It's loud, but there's still dynamics. I'm just blown away. 1st legit mastering job.

[Q.Back]

Hi everyone,
important to say, my first language is french. I've been reading and listening to a lot stuff in there, and seems like I still got lots of work to do before I can say I really know hip-hop mixing and mastering. So much good music, and can't wait to know how to handle this myself.

One of my major problem I guess is EQ. I try to read the more that I can about mixing and mastering, and I could say EQ 1 - me 0. Do I change the frequencie range too much? I feel like the song misses some bass, but my frequencies analyst seems ok, slightly higher for the low freq range.
This is amateur, and hope to get the best to upgrade my production level. ANy tip on trick are welcome.
The song is in french

Question by the way, how many hours can you approximatively spend on mixing?

Thanks

[kac123ige]

Originally Posted by CRACKPIPE

I got it mastered, not that you can tell from the youtube. I don't know, can you?

It's amazing what a little love from an experienced mastering engineer will do for your song. Wow!!!!! Like night and day. So warm.

And the waveform isn't completely brickwalled. It's loud, but there's still dynamics. I'm just blown away. 1st legit mastering job.

ey that shit stupid mad hot lolz i like that beat

[CRACKPIPE]

Originally Posted by sblicious

may I have feedback from you guys on this one beat?

AYE!!! HAHAHA LUV THE COWBELL! I'm on a 808 CB revival. thumbsup

[CRACKPIPE]

Originally Posted by kac123ige

ey that shit stupid mad hot lolz i like that beat

Good Lookz, sir. thumbsup

[trill]

@bluntside

Your mix sounds pretty good to me. I'd EQ a bit of the hi-end off that snare, but that's just personal preference.