week 4 EXP

This week I was mainly focused on mixing, Research and working on my website.

When fully mixed the first track I had realised that the 808 was to rough and was killing off the vocals when the were played together causing it to distort and fuzz in the beginning of a bar. This 808 that was used was a preset that I had played around with on EX24 on logic. It was a problem as i Have no 808s similar. This caused me to look up online how to create and 808 on another preset.
I had found a very useful 808 tutorial that helped me to make something similar.

When watching the video and creating an 808 whilst doing so, I had played around with the effects to try and give it less on a kick and add more bass towards it. I had also added some distortion to it at one point to give it a slightly gritty sound, but had disagreed minutes after. finally when  creating the 808 similar to the one made above, it was still to punchy and had a small clip at the top. I then spent around 30 minutes EQ'ing it so that there was no clip and it combined well with the rest of the track.

 I had fully mixed the first track adding a gentle 808 behind the vocals. This ran through the track smoothly but was a big impact when fading in and out.


The next thing that I wanted to do was post this onto my Soundcloud and link it to my actual website which was simply done. I then changed the background from my Soundcloud so that it looked nice and blended with the website.

Once this was all complete I was able to find time to find some samples to begin my 2nd track. I then came across a small piano sample that I was able download.
Next week I would like to have completed my second track and maybe even finish mixing it.