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xamido · Post by **xamido** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:33 pm

So, i tried to make another music with synth bass. This time i'm using monark, a first time for me. Unfortunately my friend said that the mixing is too modern sounding. What would you do if you were given chance to mix this kind of music?

https://soundcloud.com/xamido/vintage

K-Bee · Post by **K-Bee** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:19 pm

Damn good stuff! Funky as hell I absolutely love the song as a whole. It's actually the Monark itself that bothers me! It's too loud and the mod wheel is way too aggressively used (or this could be the patch itself). - replace it with a female singer and I'm sure you can sell this to Bluey and the rest of Incognito

I do have Monark myself but I'm yet to use it.

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:28 pm

this here is a good example of vintage synth bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzbKHbDk5hc
the song itself is gay, but the mix and sound design is brilliant.

or another classic one would be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M17xsANqo-M

and this vintage bass beast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLGDzS30Eo4

but i doubt you will ever achive that dense bottom end with a vst.

xamido · Post by **xamido** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:48 pm

K-Bee wrote:Damn good stuff! Funky as hell I absolutely love the song as a whole. It's actually the Monark itself that bothers me! It's too loud and the mod wheel is way too aggressively used (or this could be the patch itself). - replace it with a female singer and I'm sure you can sell this to Bluey and the rest of Incognito
I do have Monark myself but I'm yet to use it.

Which one is too loud? The bass or the lead? Since both are monark's.

Hmm probably too much modwheel then, i did move it in almost every note.

She Changed Her Mind · Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:19 pm

Lead is too dominant and too much. You can't use the lead as a replacement of a singing voice all the time, by the way. Or you have to be really really good.
In fact it's 80% lead -going on and on- and then the rest IMO.
Nice song

PS Monark itself sounds incredible IMO

xamido · Post by **xamido** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:17 am

She Changed Her Mind wrote:Lead is too dominant and too much. You can't use the lead as a replacement of a singing voice all the time, by the way. Or you have to be really really good.
In fact it's 80% lead -going on and on- and then the rest IMO.
Nice song
PS Monark itself sounds incredible IMO

Yeah, don't have anyone to sing on this one. Maybe i should just treat this as a backing track instead and cut most of the lead part.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:45 am

Lead is too dominant and the sound itself is not expressive enough. Same with the part played. So it becomes boring after a while.

Else, I really enjoyed the rest of the track. Organic sound, yet very smooth, groovy and pleasing.

K-Bee · Post by **K-Bee** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 2:34 pm

Sorry, I didn't realize both the bass and lead was monark. I was talking about the latter

The bass if fine.

Synth bass music (First time using Monark)