Hi, thanks for you response too.Kalm wrote: ↑19 Apr 2018I agree with Selig, start with one thing first. Understand your difference in levels. Everyone here is pointing at your listening environment which is the truest statement in life but, thats something I can't really address unless posted. If you cant work on your listening environment first or you're using a good pair of headphones then proceed to the second paragraph.
The number one issue I hear people having trouble with when it comes to levels is that they want to use processors and effects to fix the simple problems and basic aspects of a mix. Understand that the biggest change that can happen to your music besides a listening environment is differences in levels. That will change both dynamics and frequency response of your sounds relative to each other. Learn to balance them first. Turn down and listen to 2 or 3 tracks similar to your mix. Then before touching any eq or compression or anything, just try to level match as best as possible your sounds to theirs. Don't worry about brightness, or color, or transient control and that good stuff yet. Levels is 50% of your mix.
Second, get a system to setting your levels every time you open your mix. Remember the changes you make in the beginning will effect everything down the chain as you mix. Find yourself a workflow when you open a mix and perform leveling that way every time you start a song, you know how to get expected results, not just randomly attacking each problem as they present themselves. One such things people do is keep permanent monitoring levels. This is to alleviate hearing changes in frequency response and dynamics from constantly turning up your monitoring environment. When you have a monitoring reference level, youll always know when something is too loud or too quiet because you can't just simply touch the master output knob of your interface and crank things up. Leave it alone, no touchy.
If i understand right, first thing (after the right environment) is simple the level of my tracks in one project.
So till now im realy overhelmed of this helpfull community so i will try to create my next project here in different steps to learn .
Greetings Martin