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Liking the crunchy percussion that is going on there, bass note is a bit on the muffled side though, even on the Sennheisers. The percussion break around 1m28s is nice, bass again when it comes back is a bit muffled and kinda loopy sound...maybe take a look at the mixdown and vary the programming a bit to give it some movement.

I feel like the most important piece of input for this track is as Wub said: you need variation. It sounds like you're working in FL Studio, lined up some samples in one of those windows, programmed a drum loop, then looped some basslines.. then put it in the automation window and did copy/paste until the end while adding a few variations every 16 bars or so. Another good tip: go research and study a few different styles of song structure.. it'll help you a lot. Keep at it.

ghostofme wrote:I feel like the most important piece of input for this track is as Wub said: you need variation. It sounds like you're working in FL Studio, lined up some samples in one of those windows, programmed a drum loop, then looped some basslines.. then put it in the automation window and did copy/paste until the end while adding a few variations every 16 bars or so. Another good tip: go research and study a few different styles of song structure.. it'll help you a lot. Keep at it.

you sound like you know what your talking about, true its Looped the plenty, but in this case if you mix two minimal tracks together(it was designed to mix with another track), you know how it goes. . but yea nothing wrong with FL studio, Dubstep started on it. Aableton Purists *sigh* I spose it gets easier n easier with every new plug-in, but you go def eventually. Iv been using Fruity Loops since 2000. don't see the point in changing format. thanks for the feed back, duel noted/ ps, i never Compress my music, My preference is that separated sound you only get in FL studio.

wub wrote:Liking the crunchy percussion that is going on there, bass note is a bit on the muffled side though, even on the Sennheisers. The percussion break around 1m28s is nice, bass again when it comes back is a bit muffled and kinda loopy sound...maybe take a look at the mixdown and vary the programming a bit to give it some movement.

Yea i could of spent more time EQing, but i made this track in a day, i usually spend ages patterning out a track. ill try remaster, tidy it up a bit.

S_Drug wrote:

wub wrote:Liking the crunchy percussion that is going on there, bass note is a bit on the muffled side though, even on the Sennheisers. The percussion break around 1m28s is nice, bass again when it comes back is a bit muffled and kinda loopy sound...maybe take a look at the mixdown and vary the programming a bit to give it some movement.

Yea i could of spent more time EQing, but i made this track in a day, i usually spend ages patterning out a track. ill try remaster, tidy it up a bit.

Fresh set of ears usually works wonders, particularly if you slam out a track in the day I often find myself hearing but not listening, if you get me?


Reckon you could do with rolling off some of the frequencies not being used on certain elements to create a bit of space in the mixdown, then maybe some subtractive EQing to allow the break (for example) a bit more headroom to breathe.