color bass or sum demo thing

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@stray oriole

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ye

okay

your problem is not in the arrangement

that’s not why it sounds weak

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Im producing for little over 1 year so ion know the techniques

Yeah ik it sounda weak

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your problem is a lot more annoying to solve

it’s in the mixing

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Feel like it needs layer i honestly dont know

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you’re missing a lot in the mix

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Or sidechain

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you need to sidechain that kick first of all

yes

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Yeah ik

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you need to sidechain the kick to the bass

the chords

etc

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Theres no chords

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next you need to fix the clipping

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i just mean everything melodic

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Ye aight

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it takes a LONG time to make a drop feel punchy in edm

I’ve only really learned how to get energy in drops after 2 years of trying

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Yeah bro

Im 1 year in

And i mainly make trap

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for example

side chained here

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Edm n shit occasionally

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I hear u

Its powerul

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anyway you also need to fix uh

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What u use to sidechain

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just the overwhelming like

reverb

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I use limiter and shaperbox

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same minus the shaper box

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Yeah this is old version kinda

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I just use limiter

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I worked on it today

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then I OTT after

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And decreased reverb

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at least on the bass I do

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I added a piano part

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you do have ott right?

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Yeah

Prolly on every track if im being honest 😭

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okay

make sure you have higher attack lower release on the bass

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Yeah i hear i need to side chain

Dont rly know how i would execute it tho

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also especially make sure that you layer the wet of the bass with the dry

it’s complicated

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Pretty sure theres 0 release on the bas

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i might be able to help you in a few hrs in the VC

if you want

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The bass is just a reese bass

Yes pls

Idk what to sidechain to what

Cuz u made this gebre

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well

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None of my friends could help me

Lol

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you sidechain the kick to the bass

and then you add your limiter

turn the thres very low

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Will it still work, its a drum loop?

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it’s kinda complex

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wdym

oh the drums are a loop?

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I can actually just slice the kick out of the drum loop and put Into a mixer channel

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yea usually we don’t do that in EDM

I would reccomend using individual drums

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Yeah the drum loop worked the best

I was struggling with selecting the drum samples when i started drumming it

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Ik

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well

I would use uh

cymatics

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I can just slice the kick out of the loop and make it individual

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yea

like usually I sound design every single sound in my track from scratch lol

best plugin for EDM is Vital imo

it’s my main plugin

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https://on.soundcloud.com/4XbkN8y2jAHgYvsg7

This typa mix i want

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I dont its too much work

Ik sound design

Some

I got serum

And a shit ton more

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But the main melody here i designed by accident

When i was messing with chroma and quanta 2

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you should listen to uh

paper skies

and skybreak

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I usually be drowning my stuff in reverb

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they make great color bass

for inspiration

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Because sometimes i dont like the way like the lead sounds

So i put reverb it blends in more

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yea well

that’s a bad practice tbh

usually if it sounds bad you can layer it

or switch it entirely

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Yeah ik

I made a serum bank and released it lol

I put reverb on like every sound

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nice!

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But u can like always turn it off so its good

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in my opinion vital is better than serum for EDM

so you may want to give it a try

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I got vital too

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it is free

okay good

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But i dont be rly sound designing that much

I can tweak the sounds

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you gotta learn man

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But i just dont got ideas for sounds

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if you wanna do EDM

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Oh i already know

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you gotta at least know how to make an FM bass

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Ive made some cool sounds

I made color bass presets in serum

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can you do an FM bass?

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Probably but never heard of it

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like a good sounding FM growl

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Oh yeah

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hm

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No i havent learned growls yet

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okay

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I can make reese bass

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gotta learn those man

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And cool synths things

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reeses are super basic

but they sound cool

growls can get pretty complex

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I made this melody using my custom preseys

But thats bout it

Also can you design like hard bass plucks in serum

Do u have spire? That has a bunch of like hard bass plucks i wanna design them in serum

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yes

you use FM for that too

you gotta learn FM man

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i do not have serum

you can use vital

or copy them in serum

i’ve used serum

but don’t own it

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Oh yeah i know that

I know what fm is