Hi! I wanted to have some advice on my last remix, it's strictly my first track and I would appreciate a lot any type of advice, in terms of production, mixing, composition...

I had special problem with the Drop synths, it has various layers and I don't know if it may be a bad mixing on these that made it kind of dirty, so any advice that I could apply here would be very useful.

Also I realized the mono dilemma when I played the track on my phone, I couldn't hear correctly the drop synths and the background vocal when it sounded by itself, to solve this I used an equalizator with M/S option and enhance the mid to hear them in mono, is this correct or is there another way to make the track better in mono?

Thanks, cheers!

 

The idea is nice. Don't want to get in other details being the first track, except: You have small (5") speakers I suppose. High-pass everything you don't hear in your speakers (30-40-50 Hz no matter how high), at least until you develop your listening skills or you get a proper monitoring setup (or both).
It's pretty chaotic what's happening in the subsonics especially when your kick and bass are playing together. I suppose you pushed the kick to cut through the mix and you increased a lot the tail. I suggest parallel eq or parallel transient shaper or or both to push more punch into the mix.

 

Thanks for your answer! I have speakers big enough to listen to 50 Hz, but I don't have the ear yet, and I forgot the subs in the mixing (already in my to do list to look for more info about this). I guess you are talking about the kick and bass of the drop, and I can hear that subbass sounds weird, so you are suggesting to take out sub from the kick? The sub of the kick is what carries the groove, so maybe I could sidechain the bass to make space for the kick sub? Also I can hear that the sub of the bass sounds kind of weird by itself, I think it's because it does very short notes, can it be?

 

2 things with the kick: 1. the kick is either too long, either with much emphasis on the subs (wrong eq boost) and 2. not enough "punch".

Groove = an interplay between elements - let's say kick and bass in this specific track. You currently have no groove because there is no interplay just a chaotic rumble so do whatever it takes to get some groove: bass ducking, more upper harmonics in the bass and total bass highpass under kick's fundamental (50-60 Hz).

Or too long release time in whatever sampler/synth you use? Worth experimenting both ways (note length & ADSR).

This is my last intervention. Is pointless to discuss further. Trust me, by the 20th track you'll have more and better ideas. All you need now is to experiment. Cheers!

 

It's nice arrangement. It does need more kick. I am not hearing the kick nor the bass enough for a dance mix. I like the song though.

Just so you know I am listing on my Sony MDR-V6 headphones.

 

Sounds like your kick and bass are in the same frequency range, so they are fighting for breathing space. The kick is very ultra 808 in it's sound. While there's nothing wrong with this, they are very heavy in the low frequencies, so if you bass is low, with a long decay, they're going to be fighting for space against each other.
I would say this is more a Pop track than a Dance track, but that doesn't mean you can't make a dance track though. This is your first track, and you should be proud of what you have achieved in this track. Now my advice, is to put this to one side and start a new track. Use what you have learnt doing this and apply it to the new track. Just keep going and finish tracks. The more you finish the better you'll get.