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[clayrocks]

@Udyret
Really love this one. I feel you could easily pull off a Doctor P style drop if you wanted to with this as he usually uses 8 bit sounding synths for his intros. I thought the drop currently could have more impact. A suggestion would be to use a down sweep at the drop or cut a bar where it goes quiet just before. It's great track though and there are no major things to improve.

@Cheeky
Sounds really well produced! Like antman said the drop transitioned really nice and it does have a nice oldschool vibe to it, especially with those stabs. Vocals are nicely mixed and i think this is worthy of some radio air time in my honest opinion, really love it.

@antman
Got the same feeling as when i heard Badklaat - frequency skanker for the first time. I found the bass quite funny but in a good way. Nicely produced track and i could imagine it getting a good response.


Here is a current work in progress of mine, the song / style is inspired by Phaeleh
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[Altron]

@clayrocks - Your song sounds very clean. The sub is nice and prominent in the mix, and all your highs and mids seem to float on top of the mix very nicely. I definitely hear a bit of Phaeleh in this and you did a great job on this tune.

@misch - The intro to your song is outstanding. Very neurofunk sounding, and does also remind me of noisia, who i have a great appreciation for. I have to be honest and say that the epic menacing intro builds up to a bassline that i didn't enjoy all too much, and it sounded like you didnt spend as much time on the bassline as you did the intro. Try putting more work into arranging your bassline after the drop, it will pay off! Again, your intro is great, and it could definitely lead into a nicely arranged set of bass sounds to make your track sound more professional. As far as the mixing goes, things sound like they are mixed decently, and the only thing that sounded a little off was how you had your bass overlap with a certain filtered bass sound during the drop section. Maybe bring the filtered bass sound down to fit beneath your growly mid bass sound. I like the sound you are going for though! Nice work. =]

@VirtualMark - First thing I noticed with your song was how nicely the vocals sound. Very up front and full sounding on top of the intro. The entire intro builds up nicely into a drop that was surprisingly good sounding. The bassline was arranged nicely, and I like the sidechained stringy sounding bass sound you used. Overall your mixing sounded great, and the song sounds like you spent a lot of time on it. I cant give much advice on this one honestly, because it sounds great as is.

Anyways, here is the newest song ive been working on. Just got my Adam A8X monitors and I was very happy with the results of this one. I almost feel like it could use more, but im a bit iffy about changing too much. Definitely wanna keep the vibe of this one the same. I'd love some other peoples advice on this one though.

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[Rejinx]

I just wanted to say thanks everyone for the feedback. It means a lot to me!
Also, @cheeky, you're right, I sent it in anyways, oh well. I really wish I could drop college to produce, but I've come so far and I graduate in May.
Also, big thanks for turning me on to Koven, great stuff. Also, I think the track you were looking for was Mojo– Across the pond.

Maybe after I finish this track and get another one together I send it into viper recordings instead.

Again, Thanks!

[Dahneboy]

@Altron nice vibes man keep it up, really like the pads and it just calms me down and its very chill !
@clayrocks nice man i really like when all the drums kick in, overall good vibe but the intro feels forever or its just that when high , but nice groove going on and nice drum sounds too

i had a dark vibe on this tune any help i would apreciate, still needs lots of work though thought about moving basses around Soundcloud

[cmgoodman1226]

@antman. I really like the drums. Some of the envelopes on the midrange over top the sub sound like they have a bit too slow of an attack; almost sounds like it's trying to change the speed of the track. I really like the wutang vocal cut. Would love to hear something other than just that one lead in there, maybe a nice dark pad coming in and out, the background just sounds a bit empty to me. Really nice work.

@clayrocks: Really nice sounds at the beginning although there's kind of a harsh resonance at the end of each phrase in the lower mids. Really nice percussion. I might bring those drums out a bit more or turn the wet on the reverb down just a hair as it's sort of drowning the drums out. Would really love to hear the finished result.

s@altron: transition @ :28 could probably do without the kick. It makes it sound a bit abrupt. I would probably tone down the really highend on the reese. The new bleepy sounds that come in around 1:50 doesn't seem to fit very well with the rest (i'd go with something a bit heavier). I really like the reese movement at the end of phrases. The snare doesn't sound like it has much body or punch, sounds like it's mostly high end. I would go with something beefier for this. The hats give the track a really nice groove. Keep it up.

@dahneboy: First this whole track is in need of some serious eq loving. The reverb is muddying everything up and and there's way too much highend coming through. I'd dampen the reverb a bit more. Your kick and snare are almost completely drowned out by the main part. It also covers up your lead. The lead itself lacks clarity and almost sounds like it's been bandpassed. I would defenitely change up the bass sound every now and again as it gets a bit monotonous after a bit. I would also change out that white noise cymbal and try to use a real ride. I like the idea, so just keep working at it.

here's my latest. It's not dubstep (hip hop). I'm still trying to find a better way to bridge the 2 parts together now is it sounds all sorts of bad right now. Love to hear some honest thoughts about it though.
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[mthrfnk]

@Dahneboy: First off, I hate how you butchered Oxygene into that drop. The drop is quite muddy. The midrange is very heavy in the mix, and the aggression completely wipes out most of the punch of the drums. I'd work on boosting your sub too vs. the midrange. Perhaps tone down the distortion too, and play with some stereo widening on the upper mids of that growly bass. The track has some good ideas, but there's a lot of work to do on the mix and specifically EQ'ing the midrange and drums to fit nicely.
@cmgoodman1226: Digging the vibe on this one man, drums are nice and crisp - well processed too since they retain that acoustic character. I like the gliding synth section a lot, the bass compliments nicely. It's well placed in the mix, it's audible and you know it's there but it's not too obvious. One thing I'd suggest is drum frills at the end of each bar or two, like a couple of snare/kick rolls and perhaps some splashy rides or crashes. Some male vocal one shots wouldn't go a-miss either. Other than that this is a very nice track, well produced.
@Altron: Nice clean intro, like the pad work. The slow builds works well, and nicely teases into the bass. I love that bass tbh - the white noise on top is worked so crisply, I'd be interested in how you did that. The drums definitely need to come up in the mix, I'd like to hear the kick really pushing the bass out and the snare cracking through the top end. The melodies you bring in compliment well. This track has some very nice reese work man, good work. Aside from the mix you seemed to have nailed most of the elements, synth work is nice and the track is well varied.
@Rejinx: I had to go listen to your track since you mentioned about submitting to labels. The intro is great, very cinematic. The sounds are nicely pieced together and the progression of the intro is good - I wanna hear more.

Couple of updated tracks from me:
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[FAARE FACED]

@clayrocks - atlantic cascade wip

As someone said before, the phaeleh style touch is clearly here ! However, I don't know if it's soundcloud encoding or something but the sub is not as huge as it sounds into phaeleh's work like this remix of vaccine's atrium or "in the twilight". There's something to work here, but besides that it's great.

@Altron - String theory wip

I really like the grain, however that could use some modulation imo. I also like the instrument i can't even name that hits at the same time as the snare on the first part of the drop. It has a lot of character.

@mthrfnk - we can dream wip

This is really great. Dat madeon touch. It sounds really "pro", I can't really extand on that but you get it. As a comment on SoundClound said, I think it deserves a tiny bit of low-end, but just a bit. Overall it's awesome, as always I might say. And btw i'm jealous of that synth that plays a riff at the beginning of each 8 bar loop. Care to expand a bit on it ?

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MY WIP :

The initial idea was to do something in the style of MUST DIE!'s "Octopus" track that blew me away. But it's moved to something different, it's weird.
I just did a rough mixdown, so feedback on this could be great to point me in good directions. Thanks !

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[Dahneboy]

thanks for the helpfull feedback guys i will look more into it

[alz]

@clayrocks - very nice track man, smooth and I love the composition and the drum placements, maybe add a higher pitched bell/triangle with a long trail in to the progression if you want

@altron - love the moody vibe of this, especially with that pad, it ties in all the other elements in together, I'd work on the mid range distortion though, it doesn't sound grainy enough, maybe add some noise or something?

@dahneboy - I like the actual bass sound, but it needs to progress, try and change it through out the tune, also your reverb is horrible, I'd try and use a new one that fits in better with the tune, on the break before the drop it does your song no favours, work with EQing and reference your song on as many speakers as you can so you can hear how it sounds across other platforms, this will help you a lot.

@ cmgoodman1226 - was nodding my head along to this and forgot what I was doing, love the vibe, LOVE that breakdown bit, I think you could make a whole tune out of that by itself. maybe just a little more attack on the hats or layer with something else, add a few other drum elements in, muted cowbell would song nice and a bit of rimshot maybe

@ mthrfnk - Very cool song man, love the funky little riff, but there isn't much progression throughout so it gets a little boring, it'll be very easy to expand on it though, you have a really great base.

@FAARE FACED - you desperately need some hats in there man, I like the idea though, maybe overused that drummy kinda sample, think of some other elements to use that tie it to the mids




This is something I started that day the sun came out, it made me quite inspired, so I busted out a few chords and then ran out ideas. I know the hats are little too loud, and there's only a tiny bit of multiband compression on the master to bring the levels up a bit for the bounce.

All feedback appreciated though, I think I'm gonna chop some breaks up and whack them in too at some point.

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[Alexandercunningham]

@Clayrocks
Smooth tune, really enjoy it! Can't say much, great job.

@Altron
Great build-up and over all a great tune. But the main bass could do some more wobbling from the start for a better effect.

@Rejinx
Great atmosphere over all. But ain't it just a bunch of build-ups and no climax?

Heres my latest WIP
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[lightshapers]

will leave feedback later tonight

noisy bashy thing from moi
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[SMOR3S]

@mthrfnk: You already know what Ima say! Fantastic! and Fantastic! I am a sucker for Enter Game :3 Those tape stops are wicked!

@FAARE FACED: Your basslines seem a little low to me, but maybe that's just me... what genre would this be btw? It's very unique O_o

@alz: Good Rhythm, but it needs more movement, and variation...

@Alexandercunningham: Really digging the chill vibe, it has a 90s feel, and the vocals are perfect... Def a track you would hear at Ibiza

@lightshapers: Has a very Moombs feel... I don't have much to say here, you blew me away :3

New track... Started working on it this morning :3

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[FAARE FACED]

[quote="SMOR3S"]
@FAARE FACED: Your basslines seem a little low to me, but maybe that's just me... what genre would this be btw? It's very unique O_o

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What do you mean ? Mid or sub ?
And about the genre, I don't even know. It's 170 bpm but goes from sort of drumstep to sort of dnb (with dubstep basshits and no long notes) and end up with 4/4 halftime kinda slow and bumpy. I don't think it can be labeled ahahah.

[SMOR3S]

@FAARE FACED: Your basslines seem a little low to me, but maybe that's just me... what genre would this be btw? It's very unique O_o

What do you mean ? Mid or sub ?
And about the genre, I don't even know. It's 170 bpm but goes from sort of drumstep to sort of dnb (with dubstep basshits and no long notes) and end up with 4/4 halftime kinda slow and bumpy. I don't think it can be labeled ahahah.

The mid range, I'll test on my monitors, and speakers, but on headphones it seems to sit a tad low... just me being picky ^^ and ya I was going to say, it sounds like DnB, but I love your kick pattern!

[WaffL]

@clayrocks- Really giving off a brainfeeder-y feel to me. Nice mix. Percussion could have been WAY beefier in my opinion. Try throwing some other shit in there?
@alexandercunningham- That sample is funky as hell. I thought the drums were a bit too old school and boring. The song as a whole was a bit repetitive and could use some cuts here and there. Maybe like a guitar sample slicing into the synths here and there?
@SMOR3S- Holy fuck. This was insane. I respect the shit out of your sound design capabilities. How do you get those mid range "basses" so beefy if you dont mind me asking... The atmosphere as a whole is sick, but i think the lead pattern could have been a bit better. The drum and bass part definitely doesnt have the same prescence as the 140 part, but great job!
Here's the new WIP
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[lightshapers]

@acro - not massively keen on the low pitched vocals, think you could change it a bit more after 1.47, gets a bit samey
@smores - screeeeeeech yeh not so keen on the high pitched screechy bit on the drop, dont think it needs it. Not sure
about the switch up into dnb later on, reckon you can flesh it out a bit more without that. maybe try a cheeky vocal sample
or fleece some kung fu speech sample to throw in there
@cunningham - nice sound. reckon the drums could come up a tiny bit. Interested to hear it when its mastered
@alz - that would work much better with a straight 4 to the floor house kick pattern
@faare face - you need a break layered with those drums imo

[SMOR3S]

@Acro: How, I was surprised when I heard this... Like this is good @_@ btw what is the crackling noise? Sounds like paper crunching, or a fire burning, that's really cool lol... Like idk what to say haha, everything sounds so good... I don't normally get into hiphop, or w/e genre this is, but the chill ambient vibe just grasps onto me... Also how do you get your sub to resonate so well? O_o

Thanks for the feedback on my track also! For ambience I use Absynth, or just sample real world Ambience, which I haven't done yet with this track... For my mid range, all I ever have on my chain is Fab Filter Pro-Q, Sausage Fattener, CamelPhat, Glace Verb, and some Sidechain... I didn't use Ohmicide on this one, but in Massive I use C Tube, and T Tube, depending, with some Dimension Expander, and some Shelf boosting... I love adding Reverb, or sometimes Delay to my mid range, cause it really makes the over track feel fuller, but you def have to watch how much you add...

Also about the lead on my track, does the pattern get repetitive?, or should I maybe throw another long lead over this one, and use this more as a backing...

@lightshapers: Your gunna have to send me over a WAV of Illa Grind! I am so gunna play that track out :3 Also, every other kick sounds muffled, what did you do, to do that? Also your second breakdown, what is that synth style called? Just a Saw, or?

[lightshapers]

hadnt noticed the kick tbh. Might just be tiny bit too much limiting, tune is just smashed through t racks, an exciter and satson channel atm. Could be i layered a little something else over the top of the first kick that i didnt on the second

that synth patch is just two saws and a sine, bit of noise, filtering & chorus

[SMOR3S]

hadnt noticed the kick tbh. Might just be tiny bit too much limiting, tune is just smashed through t racks, an exciter and satson channel atm. Could be i layered a little something else over the top of the first kick that i didnt on the second

that synth patch is just two saws and a sine, bit of noise, filtering & chorus

Oh, okay thanks :3 and I wasn't complaining about the kick, I thought it sounded cool, like it sounds like it drops out at times, but it sounds like it meant to idk... Like @ 1:53, that's were I noticed it at...

[lightshapers]

ahh i see what you mean. yeh its because of the groove/swing is set to affect the length of some notes. it probably happens a bit more often as well but is not so noticeable because of the bass.