Quote Originally Posted by DotMatrix
I have had a similar problem which I have only recently overcome. so here's my suggestions I know they are pretty standard but they made the difference for me.

1. find a good reference track. find something similar to what your going for and mix it into what your making. then start swappoing bass, mid range etc.. Drop the fader so it's just your track playing and then drop that fader and just play your reference track. this will show you much easier what is missing in your track.

for me it was frequency. I noticed that my track had just as good low and frequency as my refernce. But there was a whole in the middle which made it sound weak.

The other thing I found was that this whole refernece thing taught me about panning. I saw where Tobias Von Hofsten - the legend I chose to use as reference - panned his drums and when I did the same i noticedthat it opened up alot more room in my track. I even panned some of my layers to oposite sides which I noticed gave the track a lot more groove without using the swing function.

That's what helped for me. don't blame your redrum techno drums can be quite difficult, especially if your going for a drum based track as I am. hope that helps.

That post really gave me some ideas. i.e. the swapping thang etc.
tell me more about the panning please, surely not on low sounds eh?? Good post!! :terminator: