Jiggy said:
Nah I need to learn it myself tbh. How do you know about the bass levels? Just practice? thanks for that though, mad how you can spout all that from simply listening. amazing.
It's just experience man, I spend so much time mixing I naturally know what needs tweaking.
There is way too much low end on this, it's drowning the dynamics of the high end.
You generally want the bass to thump and kick rather than on this track it's rumbling.
If you put this on a sub in a car it would literally shake the doors off lol.
Also there's no high end sparkle so it seems very dull.
Just keep practising man and you'll get the hang of it, send it over to me when you've tweaked it again and I'll let you know if it's tight.
Do you use monitors to mix on?, I presume you do.
Refrain from mixing on headphones because their not accurate which causes you to boost the low end.
Use an EQ plugin with a spectrum or a multiband compressor so you can evaluate the frequencies which are too hot.
Also use a high pass filter when adding your bass etc, always apply a high pass to remove excess low end on your bass tracks otherwise they add up the more tracks you add and create way too much bass in the final product. Generally remove roughly 30HZ on the low end of your instruments so they sound clean and not muddy.