a melodic trance track I did yesterday.
I think the refrain part is sounding good so far, but I am not happy with the stuff inbetween.
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hifi: there's just - too - much - reverb, with or without club 
on synths you'd better use (heavy) delays instead of (heavy) reverb.
I can deal with a 'huge' sound on some parts, like on that synth in the break (perfect part for rev), or vocals, but it needs some finetuning.
In general try to find the right balance between reverb volume and largeness of room (suggestion).
Anything that enlarges the suggestion of a huge room makes possible a lowering of the absolute volume, which on it's turn keeps parts 'in your face'.
Another thing is, to get a 'wall of sound' you have to make a sound for every musical part to fit the 'big sound' concept, also the appearingly 'dry' parts.
A (dry) cick will benefit from excessive pure early reflexions verb, to name a trick.
A larger early reflexions time can suggest more 'room' already, allowing to lower the volume of the reverb.
Excessive lowcutting is a form of volume deminishing on it's own.
I also put some attack designer on the dry part of some rev parts, to keep them in front yet.
Hope this helps
ps, it's funny, I once struggled with the same dilemma, to find a big yet streight sound.
I don't concider the mix as succeeded, but you can check how far I could get it:
http://www.ezsound.nl/pages/EZdance.html
I can't link to tracks directly on my music site, just choose the third track named 'Choppy', or the next one also, where a horns section melodic sample should sound big (Beans, bones and happiness).
I wasn't satisfied enough with the result after some time, so I put a (very) little reverb on the whole mix at once, but with extreme eq settings: nothing below eh dunno, maybe 3500 Hz, and nothing above 8 kHz or something.
Just a tiny bit air to glue the dry and reverberated parts together.
I took a volume setting just a little bit above noticing the difference with no reverb.
Just another idea
on synths you'd better use (heavy) delays instead of (heavy) reverb.
I can deal with a 'huge' sound on some parts, like on that synth in the break (perfect part for rev), or vocals, but it needs some finetuning.
In general try to find the right balance between reverb volume and largeness of room (suggestion).
Anything that enlarges the suggestion of a huge room makes possible a lowering of the absolute volume, which on it's turn keeps parts 'in your face'.
Another thing is, to get a 'wall of sound' you have to make a sound for every musical part to fit the 'big sound' concept, also the appearingly 'dry' parts.
A (dry) cick will benefit from excessive pure early reflexions verb, to name a trick.
A larger early reflexions time can suggest more 'room' already, allowing to lower the volume of the reverb.
Excessive lowcutting is a form of volume deminishing on it's own.
I also put some attack designer on the dry part of some rev parts, to keep them in front yet.
Hope this helps
ps, it's funny, I once struggled with the same dilemma, to find a big yet streight sound.
I don't concider the mix as succeeded, but you can check how far I could get it:
http://www.ezsound.nl/pages/EZdance.html
I can't link to tracks directly on my music site, just choose the third track named 'Choppy', or the next one also, where a horns section melodic sample should sound big (Beans, bones and happiness).
I wasn't satisfied enough with the result after some time, so I put a (very) little reverb on the whole mix at once, but with extreme eq settings: nothing below eh dunno, maybe 3500 Hz, and nothing above 8 kHz or something.
Just a tiny bit air to glue the dry and reverberated parts together.
I took a volume setting just a little bit above noticing the difference with no reverb.
Just another idea
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Neil B
