Hey guys, would love some general advice or criticism on my latest track. I've been producing since the start of this year and love sharing my music with my friends, but they aren't producers so I dont have access to criticism and advice from other producers.
nice track Cody, you've made great progress if you've only started producing this year! sounds like you recorded those vox yourself? nice job! i would personally compress them a bit more in order to even them out a bit better and would take out some of the low mids as they are a bit boomy sometimes, i would personally put a bit more reverb on the vox as well! your transitions are already quite good but I think you can play around with the transitions a bit more, using some filter movement, a bit of automated reverb/delay and maybe some more impacts, I personally feel like more impacts would benefit the contrast between the different sections, especially after the 2 minute mark as more and more instruments are being added up to the equation :) Keep up the great work, you're advancing very quickly!
Sup Cody, the hats are harsh on the ears, there are a peak for each hat there, you could lower to make it sound balanced and clean. Other than that, good track!
Recently I saw some people speak about 'smart training'. I have been looking around, but cannot find this option anywhere. Where can I find it? Because it sounds very usefull :)
Hi Ariel, click the profile icon at the top right, then click Account Settings. On the page that opens, click Training on the left side — you’ll see it there. :)
Hello dear producers, If you read this, please give me a solution because I'm stuck at level 23 in the Peak meter. Is this normal? By the way, what's your level in this game?
Hi. If this is a peak master, try to remember associations or some landmarks in the sound. Gradually, you'll begin to hear transition frequencies between them. And constant practice... Although, it's not easy to get to level 23, which means you're already hearing something;) The rest is a matter of time... I'm at level 22.
I mean, you're already at the summit. Your SPI is 3,9 million. Cut yourself some slack. If being at my SPI (1,25 million) means being in the top 3% of SoundGym users then I can't even begin to imagine where you're at.
It must be really really hard pushing forward at the stage you're at. Allow yourself to relax mentally. I struggle with this myself.
Your current SPI doesn’t just prove that you can do better than most users here; considering how subtle things need to be heard on much lower levels, you are likely to hear things like compression and frequency balance more precisely than majority of human beings on this planet, including people who work on music for a living. Let that sink in. You have exceptionally well trained ears already for working on the TECHNICAL aspects of music mixing and mastering.
If I was in your situation, instead of trying to reach another milestone within this closed gamified system, I would focus all my efforts in working on what actually matters most: recording/mixing/mastering/producing music and putting those diamond ears to work. Or in your case: mixing live shows. Actually, that would be my very first advice for ANYONE using Soundgym, from the very beginning. The workouts you do here are comparable to technical drills and etudes that instrumentalists do as part of their personal practise routine, since what actually makes great musicians is playing actual music with and in front of people. A person can do those drills for years and achieve absolutely mastery of their scales, chords and arpeggios, but that alone wouldn’t make them good musician. Same applies to Soundgym: I believe that a person could in theory achieve everything that is possible to achieve on this platform (certified member status etc.) and still deliver pretty awful sounding mixes, assuming they haven’t listened to a lot of well mixed material, mixed enough full songs and developed a solid working routine there.
In short: be proud of your Diamond Ears and focus on music. Learning never stops in that field.
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