How do you make your tracks "punch?"

[Chicago Skyway Music]

I'm having a problem make my tracks sound more "Full." What can you guys recommend to do that. I feel that my tracks are lacking "punch."

Hardware or software (The cheaper the better. ;) )

Sean Hernandez

[altrrdst8]

software: Waves Post production tools such as RBass and Max Bass and theor compressors.

equals full punch

[Chicago Skyway Music]

Originally posted by altrrdst8:
software: Waves Post production tools such as RBass and Max Bass and theor compressors.

equals full punch

Hey altrrdst8, thanks for your response.
It seems like these are VSTs. The only thing about that is that I don't have Cubase or Logic to run them. :( Also, are these available for Mac?


Sean Hernandez

[socratez]

Here is a good one:
When having problems with getting your beats to BEAT,,, make an audio track of your currently running drum track and bassline,,,,
Bounce the drums and bass to an audio track,,, filter that audio track around with around 10db resonance, and tweak around till the 2 tracks interlock,, youll hear what i mean.

Boost frequencies between 200 and 400khz thats where the kick is.

The most important ingredient is always the quality of the sound source.

[Craig Patane]

Ciao, Sean

You need to use some compression..check out PSP Vintage Warmer.
You basically need to get yout tracks as loud as possible without clipping. Also, you want to ake sure your final mis sits well in the stereo spectrum..what I mean is panning, eq, and effecs..i f your DAW has a spectral eq...you will be able to see where you sounds are, and be able to eq them so that they aren't masking each other.

Checkout this website.

www.tweakheadz.com
click on the guide section and navigate to what it is you want to read up on(in your case.... mixing or compression)

Ciao

[pipecock]

Originally posted by Sean Hernandez:
I'm having a problem make my tracks sound more "Full." What can you guys recommend to do that. I feel that my tracks are lacking "punch."

Hardware or software (The cheaper the better. ;) )

it should be real cheap: work on your mixdowns. learn what sounds need to be where, and what sounds dont need to be certain areas. youll see people telling you to compress the life out of your tracks, and if you want your stuff to sound like a block of loud noise like so many dance records, thats exactly how to do it. if you just want them to sound better, making your mixdown better will help you a ton. one good way to do this is to layer your sounds. even just layering differently filtered versions of the same sound can help you avoid frequency ranges where things are getting muddy. and layering works really well on kicks and bass sounds.

dont buy the hype behind compression or exciters and all that nonsense. ive seen people make ridiculous records without resorting to any of that stuff. like someone else said, use quality sound sources in the beginning, and understand EQing (especially subtractive EQ) and you should be able to make pumping tracks. the only time your master signal should be compressed is when its being mastered for whatever medium you choose.

[O'love]

Originally posted by pipecock:

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Originally posted by Sean Hernandez:
I'm having a problem make my tracks sound more "Full." What can you guys recommend to do that. I feel that my tracks are lacking "punch."

Hardware or software (The cheaper the better. ;) )

it should be real cheap: work on your mixdowns. learn what sounds need to be where, and what sounds dont need to be certain areas. youll see people telling you to compress the life out of your tracks, and if you want your stuff to sound like a block of loud noise like so many dance records, thats exactly how to do it. if you just want them to sound better, making your mixdown better will help you a ton. one good way to do this is to layer your sounds. even just layering differently filtered versions of the same sound can help you avoid frequency ranges where things are getting muddy. and layering works really well on kicks and bass sounds.

dont buy the hype behind compression or exciters and all that nonsense. ive seen people make ridiculous records without resorting to any of that stuff. like someone else said, use quality sound sources in the beginning, and understand EQing (especially subtractive EQ) and you should be able to make pumping tracks. the only time your master signal should be compressed is when its being mastered for whatever medium you choose. [/QUOTE]amen!
first: good sounds, second: good mix