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Art – Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve downloaded the spectrum analyzer and so far so good!

Euca – Thanks! Drums have given me a hard time so I’ll definitely be giving that a try.

I have no doubt I’ll always be learning about the mixing/mastering process, but I’m hoping to get to a place where I’m at least comfortable with setting up a decent mix to send to libraries.

I’ve been putting it off for years and jumped in a couple of months back. Granted, I’ve always recorded… just always passed the hard stuff to those more qualified.

I’ll be giving these suggestions a shot. I appreciate everyone taking the time to give me some feedback!

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Chuck – Thanks for the input. I’m just getting my feet wet in writing cues and am coming from an artist background. So I’m particularly interested in learning the language of writing cues, much like the different styles I learned to compose while writing my “artist” music. I really appreciate you lending me your ears.

Michael – Excellent. Thank you for the input as well. I look forward to digging deeper into your columns and soaking in all that I can. Yes, I did mean Hz sorry about that. I appreciate you lending me your ears as well.

Any other criticisms, I’m more than eager to hear them. Also, there are 15 tracks on that playlist (only the first three show up for me unless I scroll down using my arrows), much of them different styles. I don’t expect you to listen to them all but just to throw that out there.

Thanks!

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Thank you both for your responses. A couple of follow up questions:

How would you improve the mix? Mixing/Mastering would probably be my weakest point. I’ve been studying/working on it lately and am very eager to get better. I do use a High Pass Filter around 30/40db depending on the mix. Any tutorials you’d recommend or anything you could hear that I’m missing?

Any recommendations on getting each instrument to “fit their space” better? Any tutorials you’d recommend?

Chuck, you mentioned some might call my tracks more “artist” tracks. Any composition recommendations? I do make two versions, one full and one without the lead/some instrumentation depending on the track (along with 60s, 30s, 15s, 7s with both versions). Anything you’d recommend to make my music more cue appropriate?

I really appreciate your responses and any other responses that come through.

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