Hello @DPA, you have talent and a beautiful expressive voice.
The song is very well done and an asset to the music world.
Try to reconstruct the end of the piece of music, the end is missing, it ends abruptly.
Please try to get rid of your negative "I know it sucks".
I follow you now on Soundcloud and please don't let your songs (Where I belong) end abruptly - give them 3 - 4 seconds.

I love it:

https://soundcloud.com/user-233877651

 

Well, the good news is, as @BEAT16 says... it doesn't suck at all!

I think it's just a part of a longer song, I hope you will have time to develop it more, adding a verse or two (and/or a bridge, a break, a solo... something unexpected?), and above all make a great ending / conclusion, as it deserves one!

Great start, please don't give up, as it is interesting enough to appeal an audience!

 

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How were you able to hear that behind all the Autotune?

Try to achieve wide mix with panning instead of stereo width. I hear some stereo phase issues. Also your sound is too dim and murky when compared to commercial releases in the same vein, is that intentional?

 

by dim you mean dark? maybe i overdid the multiband on master.
how does one fix stereo phase?

 

No, highs and high-mids aren't too compressed, but rather somewhat absent. In both arrangement and mixing. That's why I'm asking.

By dialing back stereo widening and panning things around instead. A wide synth in the center will give you less perceived width than a narrow synth to the side with some slapback delay on the opposite side. Right now you have everything close to center and everything but bass and voice is a bit too wide. If you will try to monitor your mix in mono now, you will notice that really a lot is going away. A good mix should not sound empty in mono.

 

Intuition and decades of listening experience - cannot be explained rationally.

 

If @No Avenger didn't say anything then I guess mixdown is ok :D

 

yeah my singing isn't that good so I try to cover up with autotune :D but I guess it's way too obvious and should dial back up a bit.

 

bro pls send me an email. I'm working on an album and I'd love to have you on it.

 

yo tight song! honestly i'm in the middle of things but i saw the advice on here and it all seemed lacking in actual tangible mix advice that would get your song approved for a sync so let me give you a little goodness on the free tip.

intro guit 1: 1k high shelf +1-2 db
intro lead guit 2: 2-4k -1-2 db
verse kicks: boost 100hz area +1-3db for more punch/power
verse snare: lacking 1-4k, carefully sweep area with a wide bell +1-3 db / possibly boost overall volume +1-3 db
verse hats: bring them up but be careful because there's a lot of +10k freq, possibly boost 7k +1-3db w/tight Q
verse bass: perfect, might benefit from carefully distorting the 150hz region to create 200-500hz tonal distortion
verse vocals: great! bring them up +1-3 db with a 5k de-esser at the end and/or ~500 hz low shelf +1 db to get more power

chorus kicks: boost 30-45hz +1-3 db
chorus claps: cut 1k wide bell -1-2 db
chorus bass: cut 60hz and 90 hz -1-3 db tight bells

I gotta run but this should get you muchhhh closer in the right direction. Again, super sick song! Mixing is a b*tch and most people are too afraid to offer tangible advice like this because they have no idea how to get granular with specific frequencies. Or they charge, haha.

Best of luck to you sir

 

I did all you have said but used ears as well and it indeed sounds better overall.
Also my boost on 4k on snare was there just very slight, boosted it a bit more and boom snare pops much better in the mix.
Thank you

 

Quick question for everyone who has seen this. Will anyone be willing to master this once it's done, it would be my first release and your potential new client

 

its a nice track, but darn is it dry as f%%&.
I get a panic-like claustrophobic feeling of it. lol

 

Would you agree to mastering being "lower everything down to -14 LUFS and -1 dBTP"?

 

Unfortuantely the Cher/T-Pain effect like Marmite tends to divide audiences into lovers or haters.
I'm in the latter camp I'm afraid (I think the effect sounds dated in 2022) which is a shame because the rest of the production sounds pretty damn good to my ears.
As others have said, the track ends too abruptly and the change in tempo after the intro doesn't make much sense with a song clocking in at just 1 min 38 seconds.

 

Perhaps you might want to use Melodyne instead OP. Not sure if it is the intended effect you're going for but if you use Autotune, you know it'll just snap it to the closest note in the key, so I understand if you don't have much control of your voice you'd want it to do that. You can dial down the autotune but in most cases, it won't be able to catch the notes right if it's too "pitchy". You'll be able to get a more natural sound through Melodyne though - by fixing the notes that are out of pitch and running it through autotune afterward (if you really want) to make the quantized effect more precise.

 

This sounds like just tossing it into smart:limit and calling it a day