its really just the tools and workflow that it gives to people but it doesnt mean that you cant mix in other daws just as well so I say use whatever youre comfortable with because the daw cant make your mix better only you can

Nah I run out of Logic for the most part but I'm tryna get into it soon. I used it once to run backing tracks for my show awhile ago but that was it. I always hear that its great for sampling/beat production and making s*** in general but ill have to check out all the mix tools they got

at this point all of this "my track looses its depth, power and juice when i export it" is a big part of why people say "hardware has that warmth" i used to struggle w this too, i still do tbh, the hard thing for me right now, is having it so turnt its a little too distorted when i play it outta vlc.

point is, i think that a combo of proper leveling paired with a soft clipper on the master channel can remedy to that. i dont really f*** with that whole ozone mastering (anymore)

-- i mention the hardware thing because most of these tape recorder ,or whatever, all have their own type of compressor/saturator. not to say that they dont have to know how to mix, its just that our daw are usually blank sheet of paper. wheras they already have color... if that makes sense

What are your export settings?

44 100 hz
bit depth @16 resolution

then there's a dither box i leave

Export at 24 or 32 and also make sure the sample rate is at 512 if you can change that too and also 48 not 441

I used to have issues with my exports sounding different too and then i realized my export settings were to blame but it should always sound the same

What tools/resources did u guys use to help learn that got u to where ur at today

There's a plugin by Sonarworks called Reference that helped w this. Basically helps compensate for an untreated room/headphones

So much YouTube tbh. The stuff on groove3 and puremix was pretty fire too

asking people questions that you look up to and making friends who are just as good or better. and the #1 thing is working as much as you can but not about the time its about the quality of work that youre putting in but it can only happen if you truely love what youre doing and nobody has to tell you to put as many hours into it as you did

dropping money on sample genie vids was the best decision I ever made

Don't follow YouTube producers

Only listen to people who actually make good music

The information is all ouf there, but there is a lot of misinformation

Edit: YouTube producers worth following: Venus theory, artfx, seamlessR

Computer music and dbs masterclasses >

This lecture is unreal

Joe Ford knows his stuff, there's a couple other videos where he talks about different concepts on YouTube as well.

I always export at 32bit float and 44:1, just how I learned to do it and never really changed it

mid side EQ?

Basically boosting or cutting frequencies in the middle or sides of your track's stereo image

For instance you might want to cut the low end of a kick in the sides and boost it in the middle

not sure why it would sound different when you export but projects in 48 will give you a higher quality sound

Amazing thread

Two random tips:

Only add frequenc ies in parallel after a compressor. I virtually never add frequencies using an insert. Learned this from Jaycen Joshua interviews. This will especially benefit your low end.

Find and subtly back off the resonant peaks on every sound to create more space and use SUBTLE filtering of the unnecessary frequencies to create height. Learned this from Bob Powers and Manny Marroquin interviews.

This is the best tip in the whole thread. Once I started following real engineers and classes and magazines a few years ago instead of YouTube producers, my mixes went from thin and amateurish to matching my references pretty closely.

Ok thank you so much

any ideas as to how Kanye got this vocal effect?

Reverb and delay and seems like part of it is slightly pitched differently which you can use little alterboy from soundtoys just mess with the mix knob until it sounds good enough to you

any tips for better samples? trying to make some emo rap stuff but outside of one song, my sampling is p bad

looperman.com

Looperman.com has lots of royalty free loops on there.