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October 17, 2013 at 7:25 pm #1014603
Silvercue Master
ParticipantHi Moray. I listened to some of Afternoon sessions and have a couple of pointers for you.
1. You should check volume levels prior to recording for both channels on their own,mixed and the recording level. Your volume changes drastically at about 4:30 – this sounds like a minor criticism, but it gives an impression of sloppyness and means people will have to adjust their sound. I would have scratched that and started again every-time
2. You need to practice beat-mixing and synhcing tunes. When mixing house genres you need them in time, in synhc and then you can start to work on the harder stuff which is the delicate subtle bit that makes your mixes stand out as accomplished. Some of your mixes were out, yet you mixed Let’s Groove in ok, but out not so well.
3. I would drop bass or other gains/volumes down only at certain points, for example drop the bass on one side as the bass on another comes in(not always), you seemed to twiddle a bit sometimes.
I hope you take this as constructive criticism and continue what you were doing well.
Your tracks seem well matched and you are starting in a journey that you will only get better if you take advice for what it is and practice.
Hope this helped.
October 17, 2013 at 7:37 pm #1014604Moray Clark
ParticipantSilvercue,
Firstly muchos gracias for taking the time to listen and give me some feedback!
Just had a re-listen to the afternoon one, and I get what you mean on the levels front.
Practice makes perfect for sure, the second mix I did is perhaps a little better, still got its issues. I’ve been trying to mix a bit more by sound rather than just staring at the screen the whole time, I suppose at this early stage a mixture of both is best?
If you have any more time could you give the 2nd mix a listen too? Your feedback has been great and once again thanks!
October 17, 2013 at 8:10 pm #1014606Silvercue Master
ParticipantHi Moray – I will do.
Tonight I play pool and have a vile day at the office tomorrow, but will be able to listen tomorrow night 🙂
I will link up to you on soundcloud
October 17, 2013 at 10:54 pm #1014622Mr Fausto
ParticipantHey Moray,
First of all I am pretty noob myself so I might not give as good advise as some of the pro´s but here is some of the feedback I got from listening mixtape no.2 (momo). Also I listen while working so I take notes when something caughts my attention.
1- There seems (remember I am new to this too) to be some beat-mixing minor problems in 03.40 // 06.58 // 13.18 // 28.19
2- Liked the transition in 18.00
3- Are you using a camelot wheel when doing these mixes in order to mixed in key ? The first three songs gave me a feeling / vibe, the fourth a different one and get lucky and the following one another.
4- 24.26 seemed like you had to rush in the other song. I had to this some times as one song might be shorter than expected or can´t seem to find a way to mix the new song without beign to obvius, or maybe can´t make up my mind about what to play next 😛
5- Did you do something on 27.24 with the gain?
6- I liked the overall theme selection 😉Plz remember I am new to this too and that this is meant to be constructive criticism 😀 !! I´ll follow you on soundcloud 😉
Best,
FOctober 18, 2013 at 8:11 pm #1014754Silvercue Master
ParticipantHi again,
I have listened to the first chunk of mixtape 2. The points I made above are pretty much relevant here too.
1. You need to practice beatmixing as it is a fundamental. You have to get the tracks in time before you mix them in. There are courses on this website and a couple of tracks with just beats is a good way to practice.
2. Good choice of tracks
3. I think you were moving the tempo and gains around a bit – I would only do that when there is a reason and I would focus on getting the beatmixing right first.
4. If you want people to listen I would keep the mixes a lot shorter – 30-45 mins, just means people are more likely to focus and you have more chance to get it tight as there is less to work on per mix.Good luck and I hope this helps.
October 23, 2013 at 5:36 pm #1015141Moray Clark
ParticipantCheers man,
Going to give another recorded mix a bash tonight and trying to keep it to 35 mins max so we’ll see what happens!
October 23, 2013 at 7:34 pm #1015146Silvercue Master
Participantcool – shout here or on soundcloud and I will take a listen 🙂
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