New to mixing, spent 2 hours mixing this and it still sounds muddy, I'm about to go insane lmao. Feedback on other aspects of the remix would be appreciated too, thanks
#Need help with mixing this
simple heath
late niche
it sounds muddy because most of the elements are in the low to low mids, apart from the vocal. And looking at a spectogram your bass, and kicks are overlapping.
When mixing try to think of an logic order of elements in your track. Most EDM will have Kick first, then bass, and melody/vocal and percussive elements. So when mixing think about that order, or whichever order. What is the prominent element at any part of the song, and adjust and balance around that.
You can start looking to clean this up by ducking the bass out of the way of the kick. They don't look like they are explicitly clashing, but by giving each space anyway you automatically start to clean up the low end. You can do that either by using a compressor side-chained to the kick, or if you have suite using something like a LFO shaper controlling a the volume on utility, or drawing automation in to bounce audio.
Then take a look at the lowmid synths and the vocals in the attached image. They're also clashing and fighting for dominance. You might be tempted to just low cut the vocal out of the way but that might just leave you with a thin sounding vocal. Again, with that midlow chord/bass element, also duck it around the kick will give the vocal more space.
On the vocal you might also be have a wild reverb that is smearing all the frequencies of the vocal, that will cause you issues. If you're using a send bus look to quite heavily EQ the reverb tail and cut alot. Or, if you're using the echo device you can control the EQ of the output directly in the device, as well as adding a duck control on the Character tab.
for the most part you can safely glue compress everything against the kick in EDM. Underbelly over at "You Suck at Producing" has a great tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSR6P2G5GvY
simple heath
Thank you for going into so much detail, I’ll look at the video you linked as well
gleaming marlin
Low-end sounds really muddy. Probably just multiple elements fighting for the bass register.