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sdp530
11 posts | 1 Posted on 02/14/2007 at 22:27 I have been mixing hip hop on and off for a couple of years and it feels like I have reached a barrier. My mixes always sound OK but I just can't break through to that next level. Whenever I compare them to mainstream hip hop mixes, I can't, its just not comparable. You can pop in a professionally mixed cd anywhere and it sounds great. I am not looking for any miracle fix, but I am lookin for a few tips that will help me on my future mixes. I have uploaded a sample to my yahoo briefcase so you can have a listen for yourself: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/kirchhogfarm@sbcglobal.net The sample is in the "SDP Mix sample" folder. Beware their is some explicit lyrics so please don't listen if this offends you. -C | ||
chaplin
1 posts | 2 Posted on 03/14/2007 at 04:58 Hi ! your sound is good enough...for what i've heard and seen tillnow in a few studios- the only thing now is to use some Hip-Hop drums from a Professional...Like Professionals do...Did You ever tryed BigFish Cd samples ? you got a few dvd ( wav, aif and rex files on each) called " Off The Hook Hip Hop: East Coast " Off The Hook Hip Hop:WestCoast & Off The Hook Hip Hop: dirty South GREAT SAMPLES ! almost anythin' you've ever heard on 50 cents, Eminem, Jay Z etc etc etc ... Listening to the Big Fish -hip hop samples ,You ALmost Recognize the Hit-Songs that everybody Knows: ) each Kit - folder classified on tempos, include drumloops , One shots, instrument loops and a demo mix - The DVDs are new Releases 2006-2007 and another DVD called Heat Seekers too... (is as great as the other 3) This could be THE NEXT STEP !  http://www.bigfishaudio.com/4DCGI/detail.html?1249 (here you can hear some demos of the dvd samples-price is 100 $ EACH DVD) I did not hear enough songs of yours to tell you exactlely..but to Get Value on almost any song of many styles it's a Wise thing to Add a few STRING Instruments...like Guitares ,strings even on "To Many Addictions" you can ad some... HOPE I've Helped A little (Just Try the Big Fish - Uthank Me Later
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Deshmukh99
4 posts | 3 Posted on 05/30/2008 at 05:40 Hi SDP, First of all, i dont agree with the person above saying you should change your samples by buying different drums. A real musician shapes the sounds they have to fit. You will learn far more by learning layering techniques like, imaging and dimension as well as extracting punch and dynamics. A couple of points: 1. You are monitoring too loud, if you turn the volume down a bit you will get a nicer high and mid range. 2. The drums can hit harder and the vocals need to be compressed a bit more. I tried to do my best with the track you linked up, all you need is a bit of mastering / effects. I took your mp3, and passed it through some vintage Siemens ECC803S tubes to give a nice warm slam to the drums. Then bussed off a track to a delay line hooked up to an EQ to place the rapper's voices. Then hooked up a gate and reverb unit and compressed to the timing of the track. I doubled it to make it thicker. Finally eq matched by ear, gently compressed, soft clipped, and limited dithered down to cd and mp3 to the correct RMS for a commercial release. By the way, your left channel is -6% that of your right channel so i rebalanced the recording, hope you like it. Let me know if you want the wav file as this was mixed at 96khz 24bit before mixdown. this is how we mix it in the UK!  download here: http://rapidshare.com/files/118730908/northerncali-mastered-ca.2008.mp3 will be happy to do more for a little paypal reward! PS: The reason I did this was because I wished someone had done the same when I was learning how to produce. | ||
wylde_style_joe
6 posts | 4 Posted on 06/25/2008 at 14:21 What U did is olright...its an OK what i can tell you is just compress ur voice a little bit more... let say if the ratio 4:1, make it higher like 5:1 to 6:1..right? and use a multiband-compressor to make the whole track thicker or more Punch on ur track.. Apart from that, the beats is good just more air on the track it'll be perfect.. thumbs up! |
