Composing & mixing separation?

[Bitfiend]

yeah but when you sit down and get to it, are you thinking "ok this lead or pad line would be great at........"?
there's 4 guys that live here in denver that are pretty big in the dj/producer world. i'm friends with all of them and have watched all of them work in their writting.
Now Meds you've had AHELLUVA lot more success and BIG releases compared to them. I basically do the same things they do.........so if you start at the frequinces then by elimination that would be the better process.
Ignoring the curve that you are on the same caliber of Barry Jameson, Charlie May, etc.....
Us newbies/amatuers need to know how the "mastes" do it.

oh and the "....stick to the wall..." theory only works with spahgetti!! hehe

[sven hauck]

To give you an idea, while Jesse was living just outside of Amsterdam I visited for about 14 days. I brought material for three tracks that I had been working on for some time.

We got together for about 11 days, and in that time he distilled the material down to the best parts, arranged the tracks, added new material, eq'd and mastered them, and mixed them down until ready for sending to people.

Those 3 were Heliopause, Kannal, and Weiter So. I was like, damn, 3 ready to go. He was ready for a nap after that, hehe.

[Medway]

Well I don't really think of the freqs in a literal way, I'm not saying , Ok I need something around 7k etc...

And sometimes I do just have a little jam session where I just throw down whatever feels good at the time. During those creative moments I let go of the tech side for a bit.

I guess what I'm saying is that at the end you try to use sounds that will compliment each other in the freq range, however you go about that is up to you. If you have this really big midrange lead sound don't try to put another mid range sound there as it probably won't have room and will clash and maybe take away from the effectiveness of either. If you do want both then maybe use the arrangement to bring them in at different times.

The fact is if you try to stack a lot of sounds all occupying the same freq range you might have some problems. Of course mixing can take care of some of this, it just depends on the project.

The more carefully you choose sounds based on the freq spectrum means easier eqing, less eqing (more natural) sound... So it helps to try and think of the sound selection and the mix process as inherently linked.

[Bitfiend]

that makes sense. i would think if you did totally go at from a stricly freq chain of thought it would be a very "sterile" sounding track...

[Medway]

It's really common sense stuff that a lot of times you probably do without being conscious of it. One of the main things to think of is don't make sound that clashes with other sounds and think you'll just fix it later with eqing etc...or try to force things on top of each other too much.