What's up people?
I've been recently focusing more on mixing my beats to get a better quality off of them, but there seems to be an issue that I just can't get around: drums, more necessarily, the kick drum. Although there are some beats I got it right, most of the times, my kick drums seems like it dissipates into the song. I can either make it louder, and ruin the whole mix, and it still won't have that punchy feel, or make punchy, but almost unhearable. Suggestions? I tried compression, eq and limiter, but there seems to be something missing...
Other of my questions, although not a priority: how do you mix vocals? Eventually I'd like to record hip-hop tracks, but I don't know if I should mix the vocals a part from the beat and then put them together and mix them both, mix every beat stem/instrument together with every vocal track, or mix the vocal with the beat mix/mastered on top.
Thanks in advance for helping. Peace!
I've been recently focusing more on mixing my beats to get a better quality off of them, but there seems to be an issue that I just can't get around: drums, more necessarily, the kick drum. Although there are some beats I got it right, most of the times, my kick drums seems like it dissipates into the song. I can either make it louder, and ruin the whole mix, and it still won't have that punchy feel, or make punchy, but almost unhearable. Suggestions? I tried compression, eq and limiter, but there seems to be something missing...
Other of my questions, although not a priority: how do you mix vocals? Eventually I'd like to record hip-hop tracks, but I don't know if I should mix the vocals a part from the beat and then put them together and mix them both, mix every beat stem/instrument together with every vocal track, or mix the vocal with the beat mix/mastered on top.
Thanks in advance for helping. Peace!