(Jun 8, 2017 05:04 PM)West Coast Ghost Wrote: I mixed this on ATH-M50X's what is the mix lacking in your opinion?
Let me listen again ...
Yeah. I would go for a louder kick, adding some sidechain compression after that against all other tracks.
And reducing the mids of the clap ... or snare ... whatever.
I loaded your track in my DAW to try fix things. But if I push the bass as I'd like, your dynamics becomes fucked up. Then I noticed you have a hole between 75 and 300 Hz. You don't use this section but this is where listeners feels most of the bass when they don't use subwoofers (Particularly 75 and 200 Hz).
My advice is to add another bass is this spectrum section.
I was wrong to say your bass is not loud ; in fact it's loud enough ... in the spectrum-section it breaths (Below 50 Hz). The reality is that you have more room to make a "harder" bass, by layering or distorting or whatever else ... And this room you don't use is what I felt directly the first time I listened.
If you feel your track is not complete then go add a bass and your life will change.
Also it's not because the track is sweet that you can't use harder instruments. In my own tase I prefer having a sweet and dancing distortion rather than a pure sine or a very hard distortion.
This contrast ; the mix between styles resulting in a great harmony, is what makes new genres and this is what listeners expect.