Why does my mix sound unprofessional?

Today it was bit tiresome at the college...couldn't concentrate on music because I had a headache...I had a calendar design to finish so I just finished that

and the udemy course you sent is $30, I can't even afford $10 😂

try programming an basic synth sound ground up tomorrow and work on getting it to respond interestingly to your playing on your USB controller using its velocity controls.... just start out by susing out what everything does with your ears before looking anything up or watching any tutorials....

yep sure tomorrow...So, are you free to come to the chat room now? cause I have an hour left before I can sleep

no, I am working, its not even lunch here... I had time after work yesterday but I guess you were asleep so I made some turkey corn chowder and got off the internet -- you really don't want to do this anyway, you're just going to get mad at me

but I am planning to be home all day tomorrow and if I get enough work done between now and tomorrow morning I will mostly be kicking my feet up, so if you want to chase our tails in your chatroom tomorrow night (for you) then I can do it starting around 7pmish your time which will be 9 or 10am here I think

haha, no I'm not going to get mad at you...because somewhere or the other your argument or claim will have a contradiction. You can't win being on the wrong side though.

http://www.atheistmovie.com/

actually I don't need to chat with you...watch that movie and mail me your statements or claims which you feel are not right and I'll prove them your claim wrong 😏

my only claim is that you are awfully sure of yourself, particularly for someone so young

do you know much about the Socratic method?

if not, look it up

ttyl

yea I get it...but before starting the convo. Please look at the full film I just sent you. Because I'm not as experienced as you or I did research in the field of archeology. All I will try to do is lead you to the truth. If you watch that movie it would be easy for me to debate with you rather than explaining that whole movie in a chat. Okie so see ya tomorrow then 😄

right, so if you set the agenda you'll be happy? you know what, you win dude... I am sure I cannot possibly cast any doubt on anything you can say, man

I'll see if I have time for some sophistry before bed.... how long's your film?

here's some similar single-serving stuff on the science and history side of things:

https://youtu.be/Gfd4kFPWjzU

https://youtu.be/jipEUPCai90

I'm sure I could dig up some more if I had time, but I don't.... and lts face it, movies ain't books https://youtu.be/B1uc7ohS7cU

I hope nobody notices I just went youtube diving on company time :-(

also, the title of your film is a take off on Richard Dawkin's extremely famous best-seller "The God Delusion" which is not really a particularly great book or anything, but this film is pretty much like Julius Caesar writing "Anti-Cato" to show up Cicero...

Hey I'm back form college let's chat in the chat room

and btw, the comments in those vids are enough answer your doubt 😄

https://youtu.be/B1uc7ohS7cU

if you get any chance, read the Bible yourself once, trust me if you read it you'll get to know what is it all about. Please don't deny me for this one, pleeeaasse...I'm not telling you convert but try it out once...there's nothing wrong in trying it out right 😄

are all the synths same? do they have same settings...? And what kind of sound can be made though them?

some basic doubts about synths

I installed the 2 synths which you posted.

this is the last advice I am giving.... I think you received more free music advice here than I got in my entire 38 years of life....

no 2 synths are the same, even oens that have the same sound generation and parameter adjustments -- certain types of synthesis are better for different things.... there's also a big overlap in sampling and synthesis concerning envelope generators, filters etc.... basically any sampler with these subtractive synthesis elements can be made to do very synths sounds as well as treated samples if you know how to handle it and is a greay area.... then there's FM synthesis(and its cousins like phase distortion), but you are not ready for FM, its so weird it'll blow your head off.... but you would be surprised at how unsynthesized a lot of FM patches can sound... oh, and additive, additive is cool

doubt synthesis all you want, tis a powerfull tool to create sounds electronically and its possibly the broadest category of instrumentation as it can simulate various acoustic sounds in a hurry as well as create never before heard sounds... modern music is full of synth sounds that you don't think of as synths beause they have been around so long they are classic style sounds like the electric guitar snare drum

lerning how each synthesesis typ works will help you when mixing as you are shaping RAW SOUND and it will give you a good idea how to more effectively employ EQ and dynamics processing to control bandwidth and dynamic range as envelope generators and filtersfall into those 2 categories of processing...

if you want to make electronic music without any synthesizers, be my guest, its going damned well for you so far

but I think I am done here, if you know so much, DIY, dude.... whya re you asking MY opinion?

and I"ve read the bible, I probably own more translations than you including a catholic bible in latin which I practiced my latin on many times as a young man... you're a condescending little shit, maybe you oughta give genesis another read and play 'spot the 2 disparate versions of the flood story both of which are loosely lifted from the older Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh' -- just how many animals DID noah take on the Ark.... ad whoa ttended the Crucifixion or JC's birth, no 2 authors seem to agree what with the fact that there are probably no eye witness accounts in the bible and it is not a work of history. Its a lovely collection of fireside traditions (and a bunch of disputatious letters) and maybe it has some meaning and I'm offending God if he exists, but proof? it is not.... and if you don't need proof, that's good, that's the meaning of faith. I never asked you not to have faith, you asked me to change my beliefs on YOUR SAY SO. You also have no life experience. I have been married, widowed, I'm a father, I've travelled all of north amrica, much of Europe, survived trauma that's simpyly NOT YOUR BUSINESS etc etc. Apart from being well-educated and autodidactic I've seen things that have formed my views for decades and I'm entitled to my opinions without some 20 year old kid shoving their opinion down my throat on a nonrelated message board inbetween asking me for advice about his crappy music or soliciting compliments on his mediocre graphic design endeavors. If I am wrong I am entitled to be, I think if I didn't have that basic right from birth I have earned it thru sheer grueling life experience...

I am totally done with this thread and you... I have dumped way too much of my free time into this (wtching a Christian propaganda film was the kicker last night) and I am using the day off I engineered by working doubley hard yesterday to finally do some stuff for myself for a change.

thank you very much for all the help and hey the preaching of the gospel was my way of telling you thanks. I'm sorry if you were hurt by me 😒 And I'm sorry that I don't know you've through so much trouble in life. But all want to say you now is, all that you have now and all the education you boast on is because of God's love and mercy on you. You see we live not more that 80 years on earth. But we spend eternity with God. that's it and I'm not going to post more on this thread any more

you are well aware of forgery and conspiracy of Catholicism. All that I can tell you the last is get a KJV, read it and know it. Not the other versions

This is the first time I've clicked this thread and... I... sigh

I can't read this :) I skimmed through it a bit and I can appreciate both sides, but perhaps it would have been best conversed in off-topic or it's own thread?

that's why I got hot under the collar at all, he won't drop it... I was going to talk to him in a private chatroom Monday but he never responded.... I was tied up yesterday. The time difference between here and Asia means that if he wants to keep going with it he's got to leave me messages in his thread, sidetracking me and derailing his attempt to learn about music production. I'm just done. I regret being baited, this guy's tone even with music discussion is irritating to me. This is not a religious or even philosophical web site though we have our asides. So my apologies to OP, this was my point when I initially asked you to stop proseletyzing days ago. I am sure you are happy in your life and I am cozily settled into my own (other than having an unruly toddler tearing thru my house because its too cold and wet to play in the yard today.... ugh, but other than wanting better weather for my son (and my mental health) I am good here and apologize for losing it with you. But whatever you're selling I wasn't interested in the first place and when I asked you to recognize that you kept going. I regretted losing my temper in the 1st palce and really wish I ahd just eaten my hat to shut this down as it was inappropriate.

that said, on a non-related note I am tired of heling you with your musical endeavors as I feel you are not listening to the general thrust of ym advice ad you are just combing for a quick fix to get you where you want to go and are missing the fun in music creation and the lifelong chore of writing, arranging and producing your own songs. You are very young though.

I have repeatedly referred to my statements both musical and philosophical as "my point of view". Feel free to disagree and go about your life your own way, but if you solicit my opinion you'll get it.... you (and the rest of the web) now havesome of my views on both subjects you tabled and if you don't like them, discard them and carry on sir. I don't feel our association is profitable t either of us nor is it brightening my day.

apologies to boom for degrading our beloved forum by losing my cool for a few days.... I am conspicuously cranky as of late juggling a lot of responsibilities and my own creative pursuits / need for R&R in the form of a beer and a night away from the kid once in a while.... it can be trying being a widowed single dad. Some days you feel as if you have ceased to exist as a person in any meaningful way outside of the internet. I guess that's why kids evolved to be so damned cute....

Hey first of all, my English is bad[You know it]😂 I'm sorry if I hurt you in my ignorance or didn't listen to you. But, The chat is not going anywhere so I can look it up anytime and learn form it. I downloaded and installed the synths you said. I'm learning synths as you said the oscillators the sine wave the saw tooth, envolope etc etc. Don't think that I'm not following you. As English is not my native language I can't understand it as fast as you can. I hardly speak or write it. And considering my college I will get a shortly minimum time to work on my other skills like graphic designing, music[playing and making], web programming etc etc. So I mostly take some time to learn, but that doesn't mean that I'm not following you. But it just takes time to investigate, experiment, research etc

and finally I have preached what I have to preach and wanted to tell you from now on it's your will. Even Jesus Christ didn't for people. God gave us a free will. So I'm perfectly fine with what you believe. Peace

your English is very good... I apologize... I am quite a bit cranky this week. I am rather tired trying to accomplish certain thigns at work before the winter government recess and in need of R&R which was supposed to be TODAY but instead its been a very hands-on dadding day. I'm probably feeling disrespected because my son ahs been disrespecting me for weeks now, finding his toddler defiance in spades and making my job as his dad, keeping him well nourished, intellectually stimulated and safe from bodily harm super difficult... it definitely makes me irritable towards the young being a dad.

by introducing you to synthesizers my goal was not to make you into Kraftwerk but just give you more tools to work with... even if you don't use them in your music you will have elarned a lot about sound from the various compinents (for starters EQ is just a complex series of interactive hi-pass, low-pass, peaking and shelving filters not unlike synth filters.... in fact VERY LIKE them electronically).

Hey I like synth sounds but all I asked was some more details about the synth. And how can it be used in ambient and pleasant music I guess you took it someother way 😕

I would love to use synths because it is a power tool, I've used Harmour/GMS in fl studio 2 years back just experimenting things I have basic idea about that. I just need more on how we can use it in my genre of music

I lack how to express my views or question properly I just ask it without thinking of grammar

I thought you were saying they were worthless to you the way you wrote it. Which seemed crazy from a guy who works exclusively in his PC! you will want to play with the envelopes and filters to create ambient 'pad' sounds that swirl around.... looking at the classic waveforms the hardest sounding with the most harmonic content is the saw/ramp shape and the smoothest is the sine wave, though sines don't respond to filtering well as they lack ANY harmonic info to shape via filtering....mixing 2 oscilaltors of waveshapes, maybe sine or triangle with a harder sounding shape like saw will give you a good base for a mellow sound and you will want to play with the filter, filter envelope and amp envelope from there

but there are lots of other types of synthesesis apart from the oscillator - filter -envelope style subtractive synth, that's just the most common as its very easy tow rap one's head around programming

if there are ambient sounds you are trying to emulate and you psot an example I can probably tell you what general type of synth to try and give you some guidelines on how to get started creating it.... I tended to gravitate to overtly synthetic synth sounds, but I also play a lot of traditional instruments and have the ability to throw a mic up if I want soemthing NATURAL SOUNDING

I thought you were saying they were worthless to you the way you wrote it

😂 😂 why would I do that??

I know that you are the pro here and I'm still amature crappy music producer and a mediocre graphic designer. I know what ever you say is useful for me and the way you explain it is nice and applicable for a crappy musician like me. 😄

I'm so sorry that my grammar was bad at that time. Actually I was in a hurry[it was my friend's birthday today, so I went to wish him] I just wanted to know in-depth analysis of sythns[because I'm an engineering student I like to get into the core and understand it fully] so I just posted very fastly and went off to meet him. 😁 sorry again...my apologies

I'm not a professional anymore, I haven't made a penny from music in 10 years.

you are going to want to lay hands on some books at some point as the forum just cannot contain the in depth info you are seeking and in order to regurgitate some of it to you in the detail you desire I would have to revisit some text books myself to refresh my memory on specifics... if its not info that pertains to immediate creative pursuits or servicing my hardware isntruments I probably don't remember it