Emmet - new CD finally finished

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by Emmet

Well the remixes are all done by our mates but in terms of what we're doing at the moment a lot of it is down to 'experience', I've been concentrating properly on the music side of things for about ten years now and experience does seem to make my/our stuff sound better.

oops, yeah I was talking about your album actually not the remixes. Forgot to quote the proper post...

A lot of dance/electronica can be quite sparse in terms of arrangement and what you tend to find is that the less cluttered the mix is the more the individual elements can stand out Benni Banassi and Satisfaction or Kernkraft/Zombie Nation being the first tune that springs to mind. Alas, I tend to go for the wall of sound/throw everything and the kitch sink in there which makes things a right bugger to mix at times.

As for moniitors, as long as you know what they're putting out your fine, I dont use studio monitors just a decent set of Celestion hi-fii speakers, I've had them 16 years and I know what thngs sound like on them so they do me fine.

Make use your individual elements are properly EQed so that each part is 'shelved' and sits in its own frequency range; i.e. bass part = low freq..if you've got a string/pad part roll off the low end on it so it doesn't clash with your bass. If that sort of makes sense

Agreed, experience is of course the key. My mixes now sound much better than when i started out some 7 years ago. I don't really spend enough time making music at the moment so progress is slower. I am using more eq now, especially the shelving you mention. Pretty much all sounds except the bass get the bottom end rolled of which definitely helps the clarity of the mix.