The thing is that EVERYtime I listen to someone else's recording it has somekind of natural depth whenever it's made using high quality samples or freeware synth. Everytime I record something it's sounds like it's playing right in my face. No amount of reverb helps me fix it.
So I by all means understand that this is not a good idea of doing this but could you listen to my short test track and tell me if something's wrong or I am wrong because I've spent an stupidly great amount of time digging into this issue instead of making actual music
. I just need to hear "Yea, it's normal\Your mastering sucks.\Here's the magic trick we're all using!".https://soundcloud.com/majestic3/random
1. Hollywood Strings Cello spiccato patch with built in reverb
2. Synth1 dry
3. Synth1 with Valhalla Room reverb
Thank you.
A problem many "non-professional" (not meant offensively) productions seem to have, especially when a lot of reverb is being used. You could also try to make it wider. It hardly uses stereo field, from what i can tell listening to it with a poor speaker setup. Oh, and also try to play with the reverb's EQ settings, it can help a lot to make it sound "right".
