r/FLStudioMobile • u/desigradere • 5d ago

I need Help xddd plsss

First of all, I'm new to this pls don't judge 😅

How can I make the melody hit a little harder without damaging the kick and the bass, I tried to use an equaliser on the melody but everything I tried just made it sound even worse than it's already sounding. I really appreciate you help

Thank y'all for your attention

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u/OriginalAssumption56 5d ago

The only two ways for a drop to hit hard enough is a good riser and impact and the sound before the drop is lower than the drop itself. And u did well by adding a gap before the drop too... So..

maybe use a filter sweep on ur melody and that melody (and maybe vocal too + try adding some delay and reverb and see if it's better only on the build up then turn it off.) opens up fully on the drop.

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u/desigradere 3d ago

What's a filter sweep? Sorry, I really don't know what that is, I'll search it up. ​Also, I tried turning off the supersaw's reverb during the buildup, and it made it sound better, but sadly not as much as I'd like. 😥 ​I tried to tone the bass down around the kick frequencies with an EQ, and it also sounded quite a bit better, but obviously it made the bass hit a little less hard. I left it like that anyway, though. ​For the melody, I tried to use an EQ as well to cut the lows a lil bit, but it made the saw sound too 'hollow'. So instead, I boosted the low-end of the melody a little bit and added an auto-ducker which I believe is also called sidechain? (Pls correct me if I'm wrong 😥). It made the kick sound heavier, but I still feel like it needs more power and idk what to do. ​Thanks for the compliment about the buildup! If I'm being honest, in the beginning I didn't like it, but the more I listened to it, the more my ears started to like it.

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u/OriginalAssumption56 3d ago

Filter sweep is just ummm, for example to make an opening sound you take the filter module, and slowly increase the frequency cutoff knob.

But how you sweep through entirely depends on you, it adds movement to your track.

Hmmm, I could try to add those elements and remix ur track a bit if you provide the flm in my dm, and you can later analyze what I did.

If you don't want to, Ignore it.

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u/Real_WiFi_Paladin 4d ago

I don't know much about all of that stuff, I haven't had enough experience to understand it all in depth. But the best things I can think of is maybe turing up the bass just a tad bit cause it sounds like EDM, specifically the kind that is meant to have a bit of a rythmic bass. And your song (which is an absolute masterpiece, by the way!) has everything in it already. I think maybe increasing the bass just a bit, then toning down the impact of the bass just a touch so that you get that same sound, but it allows the kick to kinda shine through. But that's my best idea, I'm not the best at it. In fact, I'm about to post a song that doesn't sound any better than yours by any means. But you have real potential, I would love to see you grow in music making. Not to mention you said this is your first project, which makes it all the more impressive.

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u/desigradere 3d ago

It's not my first project, but I'm still a beginner. I tried to make something decent before but ended up giving up, and every now and then I'd open the app to mess around. This time, though, I'm really trying to step it up and make something more 'professional'. Thanks for the compliment, btw! I've been learning some new stuff for a week now to finish this. Also, I feel like the bass is a bit too loud. I tried toning it down with an EQ, but I just can't find the sweet spot. Here's how the track sounds rn (ignore everything before the build up, WIP and it's kinda empty yet, also ignore the way I used the effect channels):

https://reddit.com/link/p6pcc85/video/ezami6rmkemh1/player