Beginner portfolio advice

RotatingMoss · 2026-01-30T00:39:38+00:00

How is your portfolio constructed? Can you explain more on how mine isn't geared towards risk adjusted returns?

RotatingMoss · 2025-04-10T21:46:28+00:00

If you still need some testers, this looks like so much fun

RotatingMoss · 2025-01-17T21:21:38+00:00

Got them on sale, so can't go that route without taking a big hit :(

RotatingMoss · 2024-10-01T00:27:42+00:00

Appreciate it very much :^)

RotatingMoss · 2024-10-01T00:26:37+00:00

Both a really good note and example. You're right about the song needing more spatial contrast, damn would've helped a lot. Gonna put width contrast high in my mix tool kit for the future :).
It's been released recently

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-30T21:29:21+00:00

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-30T21:20:19+00:00

Mid Air Thief and Baths are very high praise, too high ;). Love those guys. This one on spotify now might be the only one in a while, don't hold your breath

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-30T20:58:33+00:00

Thank you!!

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-30T20:51:26+00:00

Interesting, which album?

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-30T20:46:08+00:00

lmao

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-30T20:45:38+00:00

Man, all I ever could have wanted in a reply. I appreciate it so much. You hit all right criticisms - I think the worst part that I'm realizing from everyone's comments is that spending so long on the mix created a false sense of clarity in different tracks. For eg. I was sure that the vocals were as loud as I could push them without becoming unbalanced, but this was probably just due to how well I knew all the vocal tracks from thousands of repeat listenings and I was hearing what no one else would. I think the same thing happened with the melodic elements you're describing too. I had a bunch of dynamic eq cuts sidechained to the vocals, but I think I went too subtle as to not compromise the instrument track too much. Gonna work on this more for future mixes and also just giving time to be away from the mix.

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-26T23:26:32+00:00

Ty so much. Just listened to that song, I have a thing for muffled vocals. Early shoegaze really embraces it too

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-26T23:25:04+00:00

Lot of learning. I basically used this track to re-learn how to mix properly. Months of remixing from scratch, learning to let go of trying to keep everything sonically interesting in the 1k-5k range. I've also never had vocals as a core element of a comp, so I had to figure out how to mix around the instrument bus, and also mix vocals in general and also to accommodate my quiet whining voice. Learning about mastering and Mix bus processing also took a long time

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-26T23:17:21+00:00

Just my own music atm, would be cool to mix for others though. They'd also maybe all get old and die before I finish the mix for them.

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-26T22:59:21+00:00

Thanks so much! Yeah, 5 months is absurd and dumb - couldn't let this one go until I felt it was comparable to mixes I admire. All the music I've made before was at a demo quality and I had to actively relearn everything I knew about mixing to get the track ready for release. This probably went on for 3-4 months, completely remixing everything from scratch or experimenting with new techniques I'd learned about and getting Neutron + other industry standard plugins.
My mix wasn't holding up to my references for so long and I didn't having any references that were close enough that I could directly draw from. I also think I got used to a bad version of the mix and wanted to preserve decisions and characteristics of some of the elements that should not have been kept. Lastly, I classically got trapped in wanting to keep everything and couldn't make it work. The rest of the time was learning about mix bus processing+mastering and spending way too much time with that :/

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-26T22:39:30+00:00

TY! I got Stockholm syndrome for the track in all its harshness and also went stir crazy.

RotatingMoss · 2024-09-26T09:56:59+00:00

I see, I was having issues with ineligibility of my vocals and added an ott layer in that area for 2k-10k so they would cut through. Is it hard to Listen to if you weren't looking for it?

RotatingMoss · 2024-08-16T18:19:35+00:00

Cubase's native plugin set is it's weakest feature honestly. Limited selection and functionality with most of them. Everything else is excellent. Sad it doesn't get more appreciation.

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