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Petter

Balearic Dream [Stee-P MIX]
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  • Emm Te at 04:45 · 7 months ago
    Mix reference note: Your reference is way more lush, way more use of big reverbs, shimmers, etc. Also lots more heavy acid usage :P
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  • Emm Te at 03:49 · 7 months ago
    Always have automation/slight filter curves on anything that has filters (basses, acids, percs?!), create motion over 4 bars, create motion over 8 bars, You can do slight reverb washes over 8 bars, simply ramp up during last bar, same pattern repeating, you create expectation, you create energy flow. Those micro energy swells/combined with larger changes across the arrangement help create more interesting and draw the listeners attention. This is all a long way to say, it can be as simple as automating what's already there, it's does not have to be a problem with the elements even (some people even do this during mixdown).
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  • Emm Te at 00:00 · 7 months ago
    from 3:30 until 4:15, the track doesn't change sonically very much (click around randomly in that time range). This doesn't mean you have to change the arrangement drastically, but again it can be as simple as looking at each 8 section and saying, what element is most important right now, then filter other layers slightly dynamically, change this around every 8 bars or 16 bars to create motion.
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  • Emm Te at 04:30 · 7 months ago
    Definitely need a bit hi-freq risers/faller here (sweep stuff), classic announce of end and fits with your anticipiation building plucks.
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  • Emm Te at 00:00 · 7 months ago
    Right here, add something higher frequency playing into the choir thing, but rhythmical. Something more stabby/plucky (think binary finary vocal stab). Could just mirror the main pluck riff, or only a few key notes from it. Right here at 3:37 :P
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  • Emm Te at 03:23 · 7 months ago
    The choir pad is great but so hidden in the mix, play into it. In general from this point it feel slike you're afraid to push stuff in the 2khz-6khz range.
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  • Emm Te at 02:56 · 7 months ago
    Increase baseline energy from this point forward, you need another layer here, something that adds more hi-mids, a higher pad layer, a pluck mirror, a more open pluck reverb, anything that ticks the box, more euphoria. Then build up from there.
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  • Emm Te at 02:56 · 7 months ago
    Faller is great, but add more SC for that classic balearic "waves washing effect", plus gives more energy :D
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  • Emm Te at 00:00 · 7 months ago
    Add another pluck layer here, ideally something with more centered transients that filters up here towards drop, you don't want to start filtered so low that you don't feel it starting, you should feel slight energy jump here, like holy moly, we're about to go! Time: 2:40
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  • Emm Te at 02:26 · 7 months ago
    Lowpass filter pads up from beginning of break to this point. (start 12 db lowpass at 400hz or so, then open it up all the way to this time stamp). Also the side chain/filter feeling is a bit heavy during this section, sounds good during groove section though so automate if possible.
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  • Emm Te at 02:05 · 7 months ago
    Leading into big break like this I'd add a bigger riser/sweep up (8 bars+). White noise would be classic choice for balearic, side chained if you want more modern :P
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  • Emm Te at 02:00 · 7 months ago
    some heaver effect on mainbus (especially hipass) would fit well here. Don't underestimate the power of simple filters, I sometimes throw a filter on the whole midbass BUS to control the frequencies of them across the arrangement for energy flow.
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  • Emm Te at 01:41 · 7 months ago
    When the snare roll starts, every 4th hit is losing it's reverb tail, if that's intentional it sounds a little unusual to me.
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  • Emm Te at 00:00 · 7 months ago
    clap feels a bit dry for my taste, could use more tail, reverse clap pull into clap every once in a while always sounds nice too. to not make it so 4 on the floor. That comment was meant for 1:52
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  • Emm Te at 01:36 · 7 months ago
    When your percs dropping out. You're losing too much high frequency arrangement wise IMO. Like there should be a small perc layer remaining (something more mid heavy like low shakers). This could be a sign of your perc just being very few layers and you not having enough to play with arrangement wise. If this is the case you can take loops and layer them (make sure to filter them so you don't get too much build up). You can totally take a top loop and filter the high end out of it to create a good fill mid layer.
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  • Emm Te at 01:28 · 7 months ago
    I feel like a lot of your layers occupy the same space, the mid/plucky layer you just brought in, they all feel roughly center/wide. Things will read clearer if you separate the layers more, make a concious decision which should grab more listeners focus of the two layers, then process them accordingly, filter one a bit more, but more reverb into it, etc.
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  • Emm Te at 00:00 · 7 months ago
    midbass sounds muddy (somewhere in 100-250 hz), could be eq roll of to subs, or just sound selection. I don't hear a lot of side chain on it either (the quick stacatto like bass). You can always use a ducker that only ducks lower frequencies. This comment was meant for 1:00, I'm having real trouble with the marker system it seems :)
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  • Emm Te at 00:05 · 7 months ago
    Instant punchy kick, like the groove perc loop, classic trancy.
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