a bit all over the place with the order here, but going back a few pages....
and a big thankyou to difference, Grok, almostskate1000 and BudSpecertron for the great advice a while ago, very useful...
@Sinestepper both the most recent wip you posted and the tune in your sig are foooookin huuuuuuuge!
definately swtich up the drums a bit in the first one, and the percs sound like they have too much 'bonk' in them, get rid of some mids. kick could be louder imo as well. and chuck in a really simple melodic line with a harmony over the top, nothing too fancy, and it'll set it off nicely every 4-6-16 bars or whatever.
the tune in your sig is rediculous. one of the most fresh basslines i've heard in a long time. listening to it now with a zoot and losing it a bit ahaha, actually that good. the little asian samples sound perfect, and the really subtle bits of ambience and additions of modulating delay (sounds like it) set it off. would love 320s of these so i can play em out in Sydney some time! will pm ya tomorrow
@KrEs definately beef up your bassline by layering it and adding saturation/modulation/whatever the fuck you want except mabye reverb, and tech it out. it'll sound much more groovey if you add a whole lot of effects that work together, and fade them in and out of each other, if that makes sense? layer that kick too, bring out some higher frequencies to make it pop a bit also. and vary the hats a bit to keep the listeners interest as well as push the tune along.
@willryan042 sounding good man, refreshing sound! very chilled out, but the drums give it a lot of momentum at the same time. only thing is it sounds like the vocal is mabye out of key with the rest of the tune. just check you're harmonising everything (unless you don't want to, just my preference). on the topic of harmony, sometimes it sounds like your melody is just wandering around aimlessly in terms of the harmonic progression...it wanders through major and minor keys constantly. unless you consciously chose to wrote in a middle-eastern/asian mode, then i'd suggest changing 2-3 notes in each phrase so it sounds more consistent. just my preference
@Clodmeister i really just want to add a grime beat underneath that second tune in your sig. like a double-time 140bpm beat underneath with big claps and shit would sound fucking rippppeeeeeeeerrrrr. if you want
@mthrfnk this is pretty groovey man, mabye take a bit of the distortion, crunchy sound out of the bass, or eq out some of the gnarly frequencies, sounding a bit owie on my ears haha. mabye double that bell kinda melody with a filtered square wave sorta sound, like the woody bass sounds a lost of deep house tunes have. otherwise really nice, the sidechaining effect works great with the style, and the chilled out intros/breakdowns work great too
@Tad tune is pretty sick, got heaps of space, really well crafted structurally and in terms of the mix. the mix is a bit reverby for my liking, and it sounds like a lot of the mids are missing in the sound. mabye same with the snare? needs a little more of the lower side of the mids in it, mabye...otherwise absolutely sick! would love a 320 when youre done! will pm ya
@BudSpencertron wiiiiicked tune, sounds faaaaat. how did you get it so loud? did you smash the shit out of it with a compressor or something? i had my comp volume up halfway and your tune was about twice as loud.
@VirusTI actually sounding like a tune with lots of potential!!! don't really listen to a lot of music like that, but sounds mad. one major mix issue: that snare is KILLER. way too many nasty frequencies in there, high and mid. make sure youre eqing out all those unnecessary inaudible low frequencies too (in anything that you don;t want bassy sounds in). are you sidechaining at all? if you are get rid of it, sounds a bit too 'sucky' and 'whooshy'.
for the mix, the simple rule is get your kick at the level you want, then add in snare likewise, then hats and percussion, then bassess/sub, then everything else. so your mix is centered around the kick and snare mainly, which will add presence to the tune. and go through with an eq on every single track, dragging a notch around at a high dB to listen to any frequencies that stick out way too much or that you don't like/want in the sound/clash too much with others.
general rule of thumb also, 500hz and 5kHz = danger zones, lots of clashes go on here, so cut small holes around here in most things.
and less is more when it comes to fine eqing - 1-2dB will be more effective than 4-8
@theOtherThing i normally hate any kind of broey dubstep/drumstep/moohmba...but this is actually pretty cool!!! sounds like you got a good idea of what you're doing...the tempo change will confuse the shit out of a dancefloor, but i personally think its mad!!!!
@DougReiley TUNE IS BIG....WOULD LOVE A 320 TO PLAY OUT. WILL PM YAAAAA
@almostskate1000 WICKED!!! serious big man wobbles, sub heavy, weight business!!! would love a 320 when you've finished the tune, will pm ya
@InTheCrowd also wicked! this is a mad night, sitting at home just chillin late at night (in sydney, yeeeeeewwwwww) and heaps of amazing tunes here, not even finished! will pm ya about the tune!
@dotcurrency add a big fat sub line underneath it, or beef up whatevers there already (sounds like the bass is just very weak, add saturation/compression), tidy up some of the wobbles (which i find a bit cheesey, you could use different sounds mabye, slower rhythms), pump the fuck out of your drums and make them go double time every 8-16 bars, and you got yourself a bangin grime tune too! once again, just what i'm hearing in my head
ok i think thats enough for now! phew!
so, theres a few issues here that i'm already aware of:
1-the breakdown is a bit jarring, will probably filter it and get rid of the percussion.
2-some of the gain structure is a bit out, will just have to go back and re do the mixdown i guess
3-i think all the eq stuff is pretty much done but things still clash a little, mabye just need to get rid of a few sections?
4-im not convinced about the reverb...
advice will be very much appreciated, this is a re-working of a previous wip i posted here that i'm trying to get moving for a release in the coming months...thanks people!
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edit: holy shit that was long! sorry bout that hahahahah
. It sort of reminds me of girl boy song by aphex crossed with the music from crash bandicoot (this is good) 
I think you should post feedback before anyone touches that.