i enjoy making up new sounds using the software i have, but i have a problem am asking for advice: i don't know when to stop editing the sound and consider it "a sonud". what i mean is , i'll take a guitar sound and ill think okay lets edit this, so i'll change the fret position or i'll change the microphones, or i'll tune it up a little bit, but then i'll think okay well thats great, but when i do the same thing for a bass, it's unuseable unless i put an EQ and a compressor to sustain it. so how do i know when the sound is a sound, and not a sound PLUS mixing.. i just want to know how far to go before saving the patch or track settings for later.
there's no good answer. some will be undercooked. some will be overcooked. you're never gonna get an exact answer for this. your collection will contain a variety