RE: Marsocalypse / Steemit Music League Challenge Week #10 / Alien Invasion
Oh wow thanks @ivan.atman really glad to hear a fellow producer digging my track, I appreciate it and glad it made you nod your head. ☺
Here are some insights of how I created it:
♦ The drum set is a HipHop kit I created years ago for the Battery 3 which I can also upload on Battery 4.
♦ The first synthesizer sound is from the Mini V3 from the Arturia V Collection 6.
♦ The second synthesizer sound towards the end is from the Prophet V3 from the Arturia V Collection 6.
♦ The Bass / Sub line is also from the Mini V3 from the Arturia V Collection 6. (Yeah I'm a big fan of Arturia products since day one)
♦ The sample add on sounds are from a sound package I own called "Cartoon sounds".
♦ The mastering plug ins I used was the Ozone 7 bundle.
♦ It's all created and mastered on Steinberg Cubase Pro 9.5 on a PC.
When I create the MIDI sounds I always make sure the input peaks are bellow the 0 db in order to leave some space for the mastering to have a cleaner effect. After I arranged the whole track, I add Limiters or EQ's on some of the melody lines and also add the Ozone 7 to the master of the mixer, set to neutral.
Then I begin to mix. After I'm done mixing I'm setting the cycle on the loudest 8 bars of the track and press play. I start playing with the plug in on the master (Ozone) and set the EQ first, then the Dynamics, the Vintage Limiter or Maximizer and the most important tool for me in that bundle, the Imager.
I listen to the track couple of times while I tweak the knobs of the above mentioned tools, and at a desirable point I stop and save my work. The next day I open the so far mixed project, listen to it and start tweaking knobs again while meanwhile switching back and forth to headphones and active monitors. It's very important doing that in my opinion, it helps balancing the whole frequency into a friendly peak.
So the tracks that you heard from me that might be minimally fogged with disturbing frequencies, are the ones that I mixed and mastered in one day...that's a no go, but I did it anyways cause sometimes my time is limited and I have to hurry up to upload my entry for the Steemit challenges. ☺
I hope my explanation was an useful insight, and hope to hear some future tracks of yours created with the same principle. ♪ Have a good one. ☺
Cool @beatseb we are using a very similar approach 😃 very similar indeed
Below zero for the master, Ozone Dynamics, Vintage and Master, Battery for the beats 👍
Yes of course this was a useful insight and I think others will also agree.
Everything you mentioned I also use, only difference is that I use Massive synth and Ableton Live 9.5 instead, good thing you mentioned Ozone Imager, I actually overlooked this tool, I usually use Haas Effect that I make manually in Ableton, but I wanted to try Mono Stereo Imaging tools for some time but I just forgot, I actually noticed the space you have in this track that is felt in the mono also, so that be the Imager. I understand what you mean when you leave it and check it tomorrow, yeah yeah that feeling when you lose perception of the production and don't know are you making it better or worse hahaha 😄
keep this up with, see how I just learned about something I overlooked for some time, you never know and this is why its cool to hear this stuff
Yeah that's great you are using the same principle and you should consider studying your sound with the Imager, it's really a great tool to widen the spaces on each Chanel. Glad you could learn something new and hope I'll get inspired by one of your future tunes as well and ask you how you did it. ☺ Steem on.