Hey all. I had a question that I wanted to pose to all of you, a bit of a personal woe, and I thought maybe there could be somebody out there that could help me.
So after a year and a bit of trying my hand at producing ambient music through Ableton Live, there hasn't been one track that I have come out with or completed that doesn't sound utterly flat. I was never good at mastering, nor could I even get my head around how the process works, so I had resorted to just using 'synths that sound good from the get go' such as Animoog for iOS, which has become my main instrument in pretty much everything that I do.
But it's whenever I go to make a track using one of my VSTs like Massive or Absynth that everything starts to sounds completely dull and unexpressive. There doesn't seem to be any warmth in the sound itself and no amount of mastering that I do seems to make any composition sound good, or even ok at the very least. It's pretty darn frustrating. A friend of mine that I was chatting to just told me to 'use good sounding stuff from the get go', claiming that he does little to no mastering on his tracks because of that.
I really am at a loss. :S I would really appreciate a few pointers.
So after a year and a bit of trying my hand at producing ambient music through Ableton Live, there hasn't been one track that I have come out with or completed that doesn't sound utterly flat. I was never good at mastering, nor could I even get my head around how the process works, so I had resorted to just using 'synths that sound good from the get go' such as Animoog for iOS, which has become my main instrument in pretty much everything that I do.
But it's whenever I go to make a track using one of my VSTs like Massive or Absynth that everything starts to sounds completely dull and unexpressive. There doesn't seem to be any warmth in the sound itself and no amount of mastering that I do seems to make any composition sound good, or even ok at the very least. It's pretty darn frustrating. A friend of mine that I was chatting to just told me to 'use good sounding stuff from the get go', claiming that he does little to no mastering on his tracks because of that.
I really am at a loss. :S I would really appreciate a few pointers.
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