PsiDOC - German Hip-Hop Instrumental

[Ro-McDo]

http://www.freewebs.com/psidoc/Prod_02_-_008_-_Mixdown_von_016_mehrMasteklein_(Wvlb).mp3


Hi Folks,

here's a track I mixed and mastered (I had not have much time to spent for the mastering, so it's maybe not as good). I am very interested in your opinion concerning the techniques of the mix. Are there any mistakes? Do you like it? What would you do different if you were me?

Thank you very much and have a nice day!

Greetings from Germany! (excuse the bad english :wink: )

Bye!

http://www.freewebs.com/psidoc/Prod_02_-_008_-_Mixdown_von_016_mehrMasteklein_(Wvlb).mp3

 

[Ro-McDo]

I just saw that if you click on the link, you will be redirected to the forum. You can copy and paste the URL into a new browser window. That works!

Bye!

 

[brian]

At first listen, I really like the mixture of instruments here. I am a huge fan of bell-like sounds overall I guess. I think the strings sound excellent too. The mix sounded quite clean but I am only listening on multimedia speakers right now (my DAW has no internet access). :roll: The only thing I thought could use improvement was the snare/clap.

One thing I really like is having a nice punchy snare near the middle, and then wide stereo-processed claps. Try maybe a hass-delay on the clap part of the sample, or adding a new clap/snap sound spread out across the stereo field. Mixed in even subtly, it can really adds a lot of depth to the backbeat.

 

[Ro-McDo]

Thank you for your reply! But I have a question about this:

Try maybe a hass-delay on the clap part of the sample

What does \"hass-delay\" mean? Could you explain it in other words?

...adding a new clap/snap sound spread out across the stereo field.

Yes, that may be a really good idea. But how can I spread the sound across the stereo field? Shift the phase of one channel and then pan hard left and right? Or are there any other possibilities?

Thnx!

Ronald

 

[brian]

Haas-delay basically refers to a delay under 25ms. You can try panning one clap hard left, and panning one delayed maybe 20ms hard right. Do you know of mda plugins? (http://www.mda-vst.com/) They have a free plugin called \"MDA Stereo\" which you can insert on a track to give it pseudo-stereo width with hass-delays.

 

[Ro-McDo]

Thank you, man! You're great!

That was a great idea. I did the following on an other track: I got a snare drum chanell (mono) that I send to an effect chanell. After the send, I inserted a low pass filter. On the effect chanell, I inserted a high pass fitler so that the signal now seems to be as before. But I also inserted the delay to add stereo feeling (bit only in the highs). That sounds great!

Bye