Originally Posted by Frank Munoz (Post 3831668)

Stone,
how do you make your youtube vids so awesome with the cool eq stuff going on

Originally Posted by StoneMcKnuckle (Post 3832785)

Not a huge fan of your Zedd remixes, especially this one. Feels like you're focusing on the vocals too much. It's definitely just me not liking the genre though, so it's not exactly fair criticism. :p

Originally Posted by KgZ (Post 3834409)

ps @megamon what kind of monitors are you mixing on? All of tracks just don't seem to have that low end

Originally Posted by KgZ (Post 3834650)

obviously a still image on a spectrum doesn't do it quite justice, but here's the problem I hear:



All the bass is landing in the 20-40hz range, a place where generally you can't really hear that kind of bass unless you have a subwoofer. So that's probably why if people who are listening to your music on subs say it's too bassy, this is why. Most headphones lack bass, which it shows in the mix you have presently.

I think you will find greater results if you start mixing all of your audible low frequencies around the 60hz-200hz range. Usually my kick is in the 60-100hz (depending on the genre I'm composing), and everything else should be filled with bass where the kick isn't. In dubstep, kicks are usually in 100hz, and the bass fills the rest.

Leave the lower hz for sub-basses. The meat of the growl sound in particular lands exactly at 40hz.

Originally Posted by KgZ (Post 3834687)

I suppose, but when I first listened to the track I was wondering why the growl didn't have that kind of deep impact that I was expecting. I'd take that high pass down to like 40hz

There's just not enough level (speaking in RMS, not peak) in those hertz ranges. The majority of the track on the spectrum is pretty flat, meaning all of the hertz response is about the same db, which is in my opinion isn't the best way for a mix because the human ear by nature hears (boosts/cuts) certain frequencies more than others.

If you already know this stuff, I apologize for my rambling- hopefully other people in the thread can get an idea for their mixes too though.

Originally Posted by StoneMcKnuckle (Post 3839886)

being bad at dubstep mostly involves being bad at synthesizing