Single Cell Software

Yeah, I really wish I had a studio with good reference monitors, I did the final mix on my laptop using my computer speakers that have a 6 inch sub. I had a really hard time with the bass design on this one, hopefully it sounds ok. Are there good free compression and mastering vst's out there? I really want izotope ozone but its way expensive.

Yeah Jason play away man, I'm curious to see what you do with it.

Jason, while I like the added reverb on the snare I'm not so sure about it on the kick. I exported your modified version and just listened to it and it is clipping really bad. I wonder if I need to export it on my PC vs mobile. I'm not able to get on my PC at the moment so I can try later.

J.. I emailed you an exported .wav of shimmer eip.

So I just went out to my truck to listen to shimmer since I have a 10" sub in it. It sounds like ass! I had a hell of a time getting a nice deep low bass tone out of both modular and the bassline machines. It also sounds like everything is in mono since I can hardly hear any of the panning that I automated. This is super frustrating. I'm not sure if its my mix or if I might have some phasing issues.

Its funny, the only things I like from dubstep are the wobble basses and drums, the rest I hate like the high pitched shreaky synths and such.. I like to borrow certain aspects of genres that sound good to me and try to mix them into my own tracks. The sitar sound I made by accident on the FM synth, not sure what preset I started from. The little scratchy percussuon sounds were made by taking drum samples and cropping them really short. I hope we will eventually get pitch control in the wave editor, then we can make some really cool textured glitchy noises.

You would be amazed at what you can do with pitch, reverse, and cutting up and totally mutilating one drum sample.

Thanks for the kind words everyone!  

Dan, your mix does sound a bit better.  I followed your lead and tweaked a few more settings and reomoved a few samples I didnt like.  I plan on remixing this for a while until I get it right.  I should have played on more systems before posting it I suppose.  It does sound really good on my Beyer Dynamic DT-770's and my computer speakers, but once a real subwoofer is involved the low end is really lacking.

J, now that we have panning on the pcm im thinking of swapping the beatbox and using one of your pocket kits. Which one do you recommend for this track?

Yeah it sounded over compressed to me especially on the arpsynth in the middle of the track, I could barely hear it. Hopefully I will get some more time to try the hard9 preset soon. I'm still messing around with the wobble bass and low bass to try and get that really fat low end so common in dubstep. I might have to ditch using the modular for the lowbass and go with the bassline machine or pcm, I think I can get a better tone from those since I'm more familiar with them.

Oh yeah forgot about the subsynth, thanks!

Finally got this track where I want it mixing wise.  Let me know what you guys think, I changed a few presets,efx and tried to make it a more polished sound.  To get more low end I used the multi filter insert effect which worked great until I played it with the drums, which led to some serious mudding issues.  I was starting to think the compressor wasnt capable of keeping up with the fast quadruple kick section, so I checked the documentation on the effects section when I read one very important line of text-

"The signal direction is top to bottom, meaning the machine's audio come into the topmost effect (if present) then gets sent into the bottom-most insert effect (if present) and then into the mixer's input strip for that machine."

I have been loading compressors in the first slots which for bass is a bad idea if you have a filter running after it.  Anyway, I learned soooo much writing this track and cant wait to finish my next one which I hope will be even better.

Cool, I couldn't tell which sound it was in yout track though, did you add a bunch of reverb to it?