<original><nonpony>Internal Function - Electric velocity

[Electric Velocity]

I was trying to make a Daft Punk style song with sounds that resemble computers. I would like to know how I did with the mixing and overall feel of the song. If I could change one thing it would probably be the drums. They sound a bit mediocre to me but I don't know what to do to make them more like DP. Please comment! https://soundcloud.com/electric-velocity/internal-function

[vladnuke]

The drums could use a bit brighter high end, the bass can be side chained against the kicks, there could be a repeating vocal sample (very important to being Daft Punk). Also the kicks could be a bit more compressed, they need a bit more punch. Also, whatever pads you have, I'd just get rid of them, house depends on space, and when you're missing that room, you're going to be struggling to bring out the rest of the instruments.

At 0:45, there's a melody. That melody is too quiet. Make it louder.


So, TL;DR: Vocals, Kicks, and swing.

That's all you need for a good Daft Punk song.

Also your bass is too weak, I mean, it's supposed to be subdued, but most importantly it's supposed to be audible.

Match your kicks with your bass hits. No long bass notes, quick short bass hits.

Just stuff of the top of my head.


Or you could, idk, try to make something more you than Daft Punk.

I mean, if you want to sound exactly like Daft Punk, I'm sure there's a bunch of their patches on the interwebs you can download.

But there's already a Daft Punk. And they're very good at being Daft Punk, and so far no one has really beat them at that.

[Electric Velocity]

This might be a noob question but people keep saying sidechain compression. What exactly is that? Just adding a compressor to the drum track?

[vladnuke]

Sidechaining something is adding dips in the volume of something when a kick or drum or whatever plays, essentially ducking that something out of the mix. To do it, copy a kick, add a peak controller on the copied kick, link the volume of the bass to the peak controller and make it inverse, and you're set.

[Electric Velocity]

Oh yeah, I know what this is. I never got around to learning how to do it in FL studio. I don't know how to link and copy instruments to anything other than a single track in the mixer.

[vladnuke]

Well, before you try to be Daft Punk, you should study up on production techniques and sound design and other stuff so you can see how they do it, and then maybe even get your own sound.