[How To Make Your Songs Sound Better In 3 Easy Steps: Part 1]

Looking forward to part 2 and 3...great that you're also using Mixcraft, makes it easier for me to visualise/audiolise...

David, post your new song mix here....I'd love to have others able to hear what you were able to do .....

 

James

[How To Make Your Songs Sound Better In 3 Easy Steps: Part 3]

Let me know how it works out for you....

[How To Make Your Songs Sound Better In 3 Easy Steps: Part 3]

Great job James!

 

Thanks John!!

 

I'm so glad you liked the blog!

[How To Make Your Songs Sound Better In 3 Easy Steps: Part 3]

Thanks just1l! glad you found it.

[How To Make Your Songs Sound Better In 3 Easy Steps: Part 2]

Ha! Wait no longer

Part 3 is up

 

http://forums.songstuff.com/blog/186/entry-1394-how-to-make-your-songs-sound-better-in-3-easy-steps-part-3/

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A followup

 

Website research

 

Ghandi.net - looking to be fairly good,

 

Name.com - some very negative business practice reports, quite worrisome.

You can read for yourself

http://www.destructuring.net/2013/02/28/name-com-is-doing-some-really-sketchy-stuff/

 

GoDaddy - no, never.

 

Hover.com - still checking

 

 

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[How To Make Your Songs Sound Better In 3 Easy Steps: Part 1]

Just1L

 

I was to very glad to help out.  It really makes me learn this stuff too. This mixing stuff is hard and then again,  its easy. 

 

Be sure to post some before and afters of you music here. I'd love to hear'em.

[How To Make Your Songs Sound Better In 3 Easy Steps: Part 1]

I haven't had a chance to get home and try this yet but I do have a question as I've looked at the low cut filter before. How did you come up with 28 Hz. 

 

I'm a complete greenhorn at this so please bear with me. When I look at that low cut image, I've always thought that the yellow line filled with green showed where the music was "sitting". So I have been thinking that if I was to put it to the left of that (28hz in your example) it wouldn't cut out anything because it isn't within that green area. The same would go for the decibal setting being at around -10. How did you get that? Obviously I'm wrong so any insight into that would be of tremendous help.

 

Let see if this will help answer your questions.

 

W

 

Bear with me for a moment, I'm going to be very simple and just confirm some of what we are seeing in the above screen.

 

• To the Far right you will see a 0, at the intersection with the yellow line.  Above the zero is  +,  boost,  below is - or cut.
• The Darker grey is the original sound wave.
• The light grey wave shows the current resulting frequencies with our Low Cut Filter active.

 

 

We can clearly see a difference in the wave form.  The light grey  (what you hear as the end result ), active wave is smaller than the original. We can see that the current low Hz area is being cut. Its not totally gone but enough has been reduced so that our ears are no longer hearing that range of sound.

 

Anything to the left of the yellow line is being filtered. From 0 Hz to around 30 Hz

 

 

So what happens when we move this Low Cut Filter to the Right?  Take a look at the above screen shot.

 

 

The active sound, light grey is now totally missing the low HZ frequencies. From 0 to 30Hz (ish) it shows no activity.   It has also lowered all the mid range sounds. Again when you do this in real time the difference is very obvious.

 

With the two screens shown, I hope how the Low Cut Filter is used will be easier to understand.

 

 

Why the 28 Hz.?

 

That number was a just to give me a start. You will have to experiment for each songs Low Cut Hz, it will change with each song. The final result will depend on what you hear and like or dislike.

 

So you would start somewhere around that 28Hz, then, close your eyes and just listen as you move it from left to right. You'll get far better results with your ears rather than using your eyes. 

 

Keep in mind what we see in the screens here is just used as good visual to help us understand what the Low Cut filter is doing.

 

 

Please do post anything that is not really clear. This helps me understand it better too. So thank you.

 

James

[How To Make Your Songs Sound Better In 3 Easy Steps: Part 1]

Thanks, though it should work for any Eq filter that you use. I've used low cut filters in Audacity too.  Though the big drawback in audacity is that you can't hear real time changes. Make a Change, save, listen,  etc etc.  Very slow

 

J

[Got Ya Covered!]

Nice! love that song, Great mix and a great vocal !

[Mission 2.5, Good God! What Have They Done To The Internet!]

Yes, the rest of the band is into the idea of adding the original songs into the act. We plan to keep the cover band going and then also play a some of the new songs during the act. We are going to try and record ourselves. Save on the studio cost and all that. We'd rather use the money to sell t-shirts since that is a better way to make money with the act. Unfortunately, sad but true.

[Mission 2, Do I Have The Courage And The Chops?]

Yeah, I think you have a very good point, right person , right time. I have met a few good people like that. Heck I feel lucky to have meet the guys in my band if you know what I mean.

 

Oi!  please do send me luck! Really I need all I can get.

 

J

[Mission 2, Do I Have The Courage And The Chops?]

Hey Randy,

 

Thanks for the feedback! Finding a way to get heard, yeah its a tough wall. Getting heard is what making music is all about for me. I don't know if it's going to be one person. I think every artist has to overcome that wall with a lot of hard work

 

Peace,

 

James

[The Man Behind The Curtain!]

I dig what you wrote and posted here, gave me the push to work on mine

[So... I'm A Blogger?]

I hear your pain brother

[First Entry!]

Nice, dig what you posted here.

 

I'm looking to working on this project too.