thomas figo - dodgy pop music

[Jay Pace]

allo mate

Started with a lovely growl, but when the kick came in the growl lost its low end presence. Think you migth have overcooked it on the distortion and EQ a bit. It ends up being a bit overpowering and doesn't really leave enough room for the elements to sit. Might be an idea to leave the bass a bit cleaner for the main section

The kick needs more high end click to it and needs to sit with the bass a little more comfortably, sounds like its fighting to get heard with the bass distortion in the higher frequencies.

i really like the verbs your using, and the high end echo'd sounds are fantastic. Structurally this is interesting, progression works well and the different elements work well together.

Think there's a really interesting track here mate. I'd be more sparing of your verbs, clean up the bass a bit and look at eq on your kick because the sidechain pumps so hard it stalls the flow a bit when you do your offbeat kicks. With a cleaner bass and less verbs you'd get less of the washy distortion that muddies things up. I'd also unhook the sidechain from the high end or verbs, or bring up the volume a lot on the kick because the dip in volume isn't filled by the kick sound at the moment.

Personally the offbeat kicks and changes in the kick pattern don't do anything for me, I'd want straight 4/4 for a track like this with some interesting high end percussion and changes to drive the track along - which you've got.

Good work mate, will look forward to any updates.

[thomas_figo]

massive thanx mate. aprecciate your usefull tips.
will sort it out soon and update u if u like.
thnx alot

[dirty_bass]

I like this, lots of energy, nice and uplifting.

There are a lot of problems.
First off, obvisouly, is that big distorted bassline.
It just covers everything up.

I`ll try to break things down as much as I can for you.

Main thing is the kick.
It`s not cutting through.
First off, you`ve sidechained your big sound, which is a good start.
I`d add some top to that kick to let it cut the mix nicely. It`s hard to tell, but the compression on the kick sounds pretty effective, so I think it`s just a case of bringing the kick volume up.
Ok, now to really sort things, find the main sweet spots of the kick in the high bass and and the top end, ans then pull out these frequencies from your big bassline. a cut of 2 to 3 db should be fine, with a reasonably narrow Q.
This will give the kick just a litle more room again.

Those hats are very watery and weedy, they need more top end sparkle, and a little more size. I`d be inclined to send all your hats to a separate bus, add a little bit crushing for grit, some compresion for size, and a little post eq for sparkle.

Once this is done you`ll have more groove and definition to your percussion.
It`s then a case of defining which other sounds within this tune you consider important, and bringing them up in the mix a little, remembering to pull their main occupying frequencies out of the big super compressed distorted bassline.

As a final trick I would put a little master compression over the track and sidechain it to the kick. Only use a sublte pump though, or you`ll render the track unusable in terms of mastering stage.

[thomas_figo]

thnx steve to u as well.great advices.
i think just by reading this post people can learn a lot.great stuff. thats why this forum is my number one

[Jay Pace]

+1 to what he said