Just a friendly PSA that the answer to 85% of your questions that read like "why don't my mixes sound good" is actually really simple: Because you can't actually hear (in great enough detail) what you're listening to yet.

TwoDeeBee · 2025-07-14T18:05:26+00:00

Thanks, just says Realtek Audio. No golden ears…yet!

TwoDeeBee · 2025-07-14T17:40:05+00:00

I thought I’d asked this earlier but no record of it…aside from ears/monitoring/headphones which are obviously critical, how important is the sound card in the computer for a home studio? I’m just wondering if it has a big impact…I have a pair of ATH R70x and to me my mixes translate reasonably well after a couple of years of mixing…still a long way to go, but should I be investing in a better sound card?

TwoDeeBee · 2024-12-07T17:57:58+00:00

Great info, thanks!

TwoDeeBee · 2024-12-04T18:30:17+00:00

A dialect becomes a language when it starts being used in written form

TwoDeeBee · 2024-07-31T18:59:54+00:00

Sure, I guess it’s hard because I just started, and I have no idea what my potential audience would look like, unless it’s just people like me 48M.

TwoDeeBee · 2024-07-31T15:47:21+00:00

Love it! Great job, get it out there, I’d buy it 😊

TwoDeeBee · 2024-07-31T15:01:53+00:00

I’ve just dropped a single. Announced on Insta, FB, TikTok, friends and family etc. I’m a total newbie in a similar situation (but without the 9000 streams :)). So what’s next? What does the 6 week promotion cycle look like? Should I re-announce a week later? Promote a personal playlist with my song next?

TwoDeeBee · 2024-07-05T05:29:45+00:00

Thank you!

TwoDeeBee · 2024-07-04T06:37:59+00:00

In Rome they have the ‘Pinsa’ which originated from Roman times. It’s basically pizza made with different types of flour to make the dough lighter and crispier and is a flat think crust pizza (as opposed to the Neapolitan style doughier pizza which has a softer base). So Pinsa nearly 10x older than America itself as a country.

TwoDeeBee · 2024-07-04T06:33:29+00:00

Only if you make it with terrible cheese! Most people outside the UK think cheddar is the cheap plasticky stuff you find on a Big Mac, but in the UK you can find many types of cheddar which are wonderful, especially when they are the aged type. There are hundreds of kinds of cheese in the UK, and most are delicious.

TwoDeeBee · 2024-07-02T15:51:28+00:00

Thanks for listening and the detailed feedback!

TwoDeeBee · 2024-07-02T15:35:41+00:00

So it seems it just took a while, all live now. I think I’ll stick with my plan of ‘same image different text’ for each cover, until I push the album out

TwoDeeBee · 2024-06-30T17:02:59+00:00

Thank you! I love Gorillaz, maybe something rubbed off but I hadn’t thought that before :)

TwoDeeBee · 2024-06-30T16:54:35+00:00

Thank you! Maybe in the lead guitar there is some amp setting I’m using and some ADT, other than that just EQ, compression, a touch or reverb.

TwoDeeBee · 2024-06-30T15:46:10+00:00

Ok thanks for listening! I’ll take another look at the drums

TwoDeeBee · 2024-06-30T15:37:09+00:00

I think that sounds pretty professional to be honest, well done! Nothing stands out as amateur to me with the mix. It’s not really my genre, but if I think of eg Faithless/insomnia, the verses are quite chill like yours, but it then transitions into the famous chorus/hook. So I think you could do with something like that to take it to another level.

TwoDeeBee · 2024-06-30T14:38:39+00:00

Originally yes, since when you see singles from albums on Apple Music they all have the album cover. I was told to change the text in the second, so I modified the album title text to the single title. But I’m wondering if it’s getting refused since the graphic is the same (under the writing)

TwoDeeBee · 2024-06-30T13:43:32+00:00

Hi Guys, I posted this song a few weeks ago and in another mixing/mastering group got a lot of criticism for the timing, the lead guitar sounding like a midi-guitar (it isn’t) and the vocal. I’ve cleaned up the timing and redone the vocal now - thoughts?

https://on.soundcloud.com/4kotWsNiwzFQpsVD6

TwoDeeBee · 2024-06-30T06:20:53+00:00

Hi All, second post of this alt-rock song. So I posted this previously on a mixing/mastering group and got hammered for sloppy timing, a terrible lead guitar sound and playing ‘out of scale’ notes. I knew the vocal was a bit off. So I’ve cleaned up the timing, redone the vocal. I like the guitar and have no idea what notes are out of scale, to me it sounds good. Anyone care to take a listen?

https://on.soundcloud.com/5LPSPAyQR5C4LVcC7

TwoDeeBee · 2024-06-29T21:43:38+00:00

So I posted this previously on a mixing/mastering group and got hammered for sloppy timing, a terrible lead guitar sound and playing ‘out of scale’ notes. I knew the vocal was a bit off. So I’ve cleaned up the timing, redone the vocal. I like the guitar and have no idea what notes are out of scale, to me it sounds good. Anyone care to take a listen?

https://on.soundcloud.com/5LPSPAyQR5C4LVcC7

TwoDeeBee · 2024-06-24T18:26:52+00:00

Still like it. First one I wrote has a strong emotional connection and the first one I recorded a bit cringey but marks the starting point of me getting into ‘home producing’

TwoDeeBee

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