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Word of advice - your levels are too high. It seems to me like you're over-driving your main mix bus. After you layer a few parts, you run out of head-room, which leads to clipping and a very harsh, squashed sound. When you work with digital audio you must always take care not to go over 0dB, because digital distortion is not very pleasant.
What I'd do is go back and turn down all your instruments - with the emphasis on the drums - by 3-6dB, until the main mix stays consistently below -0.5dB, even in the busiest, loudest parts of the track. If you want your tracks to still sound loud - use a compressor (preferably multi-band), EQ and maybe some other processors, like tape simulator, at the mastering stage.
Word of advice - your levels are too high. It seems to me like you're over-driving your main mix bus. After you layer a few parts, you run out of head-room, which leads to clipping and a very harsh, squashed sound. When you work with digital audio you must always take care not to go over 0dB, because digital distortion is not very pleasant.
What I'd do is go back and turn down all your instruments - with the emphasis on the drums - by 3-6dB, until the main mix stays consistently below -0.5dB, even in the busiest, loudest parts of the track. If you want your tracks to still sound loud - use a compressor (preferably multi-band), EQ and maybe some other processors, like tape simulator, at the mastering stage.
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