Hey everyone, I hope you're having a great time! I kind of am stuck with the song I'm producing and I can't figure out what's wrong with the mix. Some help would be amazing and I'd be eternally grateful. Cause after hours of work this song is bugging me slowly... If you could tell me what I could change for the mix so it doesn't sound muddy or chaotic, that would be great. Thank you for your time:) From 0:42 is the relevant part and build up. The beginning is to be recorded again:3 My goal is to have a beautiful atmospheric bride mix but it should sound clean. (I'm starting to hate mixing 😭) (What I already tried: Mono listening and I know that brideness is luxury, Checking the busses/sections to cut out the annoying frequencies, putting some mixes down like reverb and being subtle with it) https://on.soundcloud.com/qRT2ScFkCAyfJpUXRU

Hey guys I'm thinking of expanding my plugin collection. Thought about the East west choir wuth the angel and devil cover. Also the Virharmonic violin. The budget would be around those two vsts, they're in sale now for 89€ and 150€ Unless... Someone knows a much better Plugin to get? What choir and violin plugins do you use? Right now I only have Kontakt choir but it sounds very unrealistic and the session strings are difficult to deal with when I wanna make more realistic stuff. So what's your thought?

Hi Everyone and Happy New Year! Just wondering what some of your favourite realistic-sounding Piano VSTs are? My go-to in trailer tracks is the Felt Piano from Spitfire's Olafur Arnalds Toolkit, but I need something a little less soft for a project I'm working on. I've been using Addictive Keys from XLN Audio for years in personal projects, but I'm not sure it quite has the realism I want/need for this professional project. Though interested if anyone disagrees! Let me know your thoughts! I'm hoping not to break the bank on another piano, but I'd love to have something that sounds super realistic to slot into my wider instrument collection (Nucleus, Metropolis Ark, Damage 2, Gravity etc) Thanks all!

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Hey everyone. I love to read and I do it a lot. Never have I thought about reading into Composing. Does anybody know good books to look for that cover the topic Game music or Movie music? Something like an artbook like the "Arcane" one from League of Legends. Does anything like that exist? I would really love to read some.