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[proven steppe]

I feel it’s missing weight but can’t put my finger on it. How can I improve as a new tech house producer?

[idle brook]

like 90% of all feedback requests:
you have to much lowend ( to much bass from bass, kicks, etc )

but the arp lead with the stereo panning can be louder. rise it up to
lemme gues. maby -6 db

and but fruity or fintage chorus on it to give ot more abience volume / to fill it up

[valid root]

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[proven steppe]

Appreciate it

[idle brook]

ill redirect you to techno vaults discord server

but its really light weighted in activity

[proven steppe]

Thanks. I still think the track is missing something. When listening to artists like SOSA and Jamback their tracks just sound way more fuller lol

[ornate grotto]

already been said but you basically have tons of low end, some high end, and everything else is just empty, you need mids and body.
This can be achieved in many ways, such as a pad, or layered reverb. The sparseness you have would be good for a section of the song, but throughout it need generally more. Also your drums are really dry.

[valid root]

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[proven steppe]

Thanks man. When you say dry how exactly do you mean and is there a way I can make them sound better?

[ornate grotto]

Reverb, maybe a little bit of slap delay.

for this piece I'd use 2 reverbs, a short and a long one.

[proven steppe]

2 on the same mixing channel? I’m still new to FL so soz if the terminology isn’t right lol

[ornate grotto]

No - On separate. Let me show you.

Well first of all, let me ask you: Why do you think we wouldn't put it on the same channel?

[proven steppe]

Then each kick would sound the same again? I guess if it’s over two it gives some variety?

[ornate grotto]

Not quite. This is how we would usually do it:

Notice the routing on the bottom.

The two middle ones have reverb (100% wet, 0% dry <- THIS IS IMPORTANT)

So in reverb (and effects in general) we have a "dry signal" and a "wet signal" - signal is basically the sound.
Dry means the version of the sound with no effect, so your default, regular sounding kick drum.
The "wet" sound is what it sounds like with the effect applied.

[proven steppe]

Ahh ok! I’m definitely gonna check this out when I get back home. Appreciate it mate

[ornate grotto]

No worries - and if there's any other questions just let me know.

Just to answer the question from before - The reason we don't put them both on the same mixer track is because when you add one reverb, any reverb you add after that adds reverb to the reverb so instead of having 2 separate reverbs for body and thickness, you're adding reverb to a kick, then adding reverb to a reverbed kick. That's why we do it on three separate channels.

[proven steppe]

Ok cool. So we do this to give it two separate effects and not two effects stacked on top of each other, if that makes sense

[ornate grotto]

Yep.

[proven steppe]

My main issue is knowing what to put in tracks to make them sound more fuller compared to what it is now. I guess that’s just experience as this is only my 2nd week messing around with FL

[ornate grotto]

You can do it, but you need to know why you're doing it, and it's usually for creative effect or sound design than mixing.

[ornate grotto]

Well reverb is a good place to start, so play around with that for a bit before jumping into other things.

[proven steppe]

Thanks again mate.

[idle brook]

fruity spreader

serum 2: Hype dimension
0% Hyper
100% Dimension

Else: .Spreader, Width, chrous

[idle brook]

sometimes im too lazy for rhat and apply the fx directly on single chain 😂

[proven steppe]

What channel would you put these on though as in drums, bass etc?

[idle brook]

FL Studio 2024\Main\Data\Templates\Advanced\Instrumental

thats my structure

[proven steppe]

Will check it out thanks

[severe maple]

this is really good, maybe some high end/ambience would fill some of the space u feel is missing, epecially in the section where its only the vocals

[valid root]

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