Blog Post 10 - Technical changes to The Chamber
Having received feedback during a peer-review session and at the same time analysing the music set for release’s mixdown’s on the LT1 Genelec system, it was stated by a peer that the snare was too quiet in the chamber, having known this for a while I finally amended the issue in logic. This resulted in the track sounding a lot stronger.
It was pointed out by a few in the session that the other 2 were strong all round, which left this one having a snare too quiet. This was altered and is now more of a stand out track.
Dubstep’s 2 main components stated by EDMprod, (2018) and backed up by Nomine (2018) are the kick, snare and bass so they 100% need to be the drive of the track and the most prominent, if the snare lacks volume and punch the track instantly loses it’s main drive resulting in a weak track, despite the other strong elements in the mix. If the snare is too quiet in the mix the track will consequently have no real drive behind it, as the snare covers 200-1khz as its main body, if that isn’t at the forefront of the mix (in mono) the track will not have a main drive. Result in dulling the tracks main punch (snare), which in turn will also cause the track to sound muddy and muffled in the overall mix down.
Matla, S (2018) Available at [https://www.edmprod.com/50-tips-mixdowns/] Accessed Jan 2018.