when i lay down 808s my vocals and overall sample's volume gets suppressed

[slate grotto]

play this around 0:53

[halcyon cypress]

Need a bit of EQ Work on the kick. With kicks you cant really just boost their volume to give them that BOOM. That comes from a eq. Same with the 808, and every other drum.

[slate grotto]

oh

can you tell me how i can do it?

im kinda new :/

[halcyon cypress]

Could you send me the project file zipped? I will go through and mix the sounds as a starting point, and explain what I did. so you can tinker with it.

[slate grotto]

okay ill do it rn wait a sec

[slate grotto]

btw i really appriciate the help

[halcyon cypress]

I added an EQ to the vocals, and a bit of compression to them. The EQ on the vocals brings out a bit of the higher end, and the mids. An EQ On the loop to do the same. An EQ on the hats to bring up the highest parts. An EQ on the snare to make it more present. An EQ on the 808 and compression again to make it more boomy, and lastly a EQ On the kick to make it less "Airy". One thing I noticed is you have a lot of kicks hitting parralel to your 808s, as in not at the same time. I would try matching up the kicks and 808s a bit more and see how it sounds.

I also noticed your 808s were mashing together. This is never a good thing, Get around this by enabling "Cut Itself".

[slate grotto]

Hey thank so you much i really appriciate it but im unable to open it, it says this project was created using a more recent version of fl studio

[halcyon cypress]

What version are you on?

[slate grotto]

oh i get it

[slate grotto]

Producer edition v21.1.0

[slate grotto]

oh i get it now, so it was all about mixing right?

[halcyon cypress]

Yes. Making sure each sound hits where you want it too. You dont want your 808 taking up all the room at 240hz, when its a bass.

[slate grotto]

Yo man I get it now thank you so so much for giving your time onto this i really really really appriciate it and its really gonna help me thank you so much

[halcyon cypress]

Happy mixing

[slate grotto]

you too, thank you!!

[slate grotto]

Im sorry for bothering you again but it is still sounding the same even after configuring it to your given settings, however it was sounding good in your playback so it just might me that im doing it wrong so can I send you a video of my settings?

[halcyon cypress]

Record going through the channels on the mixer while its playing, sounds like the 808 is too loud

[slate grotto]

OKay okay

[slate grotto]

yo sorry it was my bad i havent had turned on cut itself

its workign fine now