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WIPs / Re: sample based instrumental beat
« on: January 25, 2016, 08:23:01 pm »
Can't comment on the production, but I like
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WIPs / Re: False 9 - ID [Prog]
« on: January 25, 2016, 08:15:03 pm »
I'm not sold on that double time bit in the middle.
Also, the variation of the main lead that starts at 1:29 - the way the last chord of that loop is sustained for a whole bar doesn't quite feel right. Some synth stabs an octave higher layered on top might work, but obviously your mix is pretty busy already.
Those things aside, I fucking love this. Reminds me of Animal Rights or that Community Funk track. I wish more people made banging techy rollers like this
Also, the variation of the main lead that starts at 1:29 - the way the last chord of that loop is sustained for a whole bar doesn't quite feel right. Some synth stabs an octave higher layered on top might work, but obviously your mix is pretty busy already.
Those things aside, I fucking love this. Reminds me of Animal Rights or that Community Funk track. I wish more people made banging techy rollers like this
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WIPs / Re: guppi- in a hood bathtub
« on: January 25, 2016, 06:41:49 pm »
Gotta say I kinda like your tunes man.. I don't know about whether they're technically up to scratch but they have a certain anarchic charm to them 
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Finished Tracks / Re: Split Second by Junklicious | Dnb song I'm not sure about
« on: January 25, 2016, 06:23:54 pm »
This could use some work, but I really like that main synth and the kick/snare.
I would work on those hi-hats a little - see if you can find samples of different hit velocities within the same kit. It sounds at the minute like you're using the same sample (at the same velocity) for the on- and off-beat hits, which sounds a little unnatural. I like that open hat that hits on every 2 bars, but I think something more synthetic for the other samples you've used might fit the track better.
I would work on those hi-hats a little - see if you can find samples of different hit velocities within the same kit. It sounds at the minute like you're using the same sample (at the same velocity) for the on- and off-beat hits, which sounds a little unnatural. I like that open hat that hits on every 2 bars, but I think something more synthetic for the other samples you've used might fit the track better.
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Finished Tracks / Re: u:ser - quake (134bpm trance)
« on: January 25, 2016, 06:09:53 pm »I like that piano arpeggio - that one note towards the end that's outside of the scale is a nice touch. The kick is nice and punchy (kicky?), although it might be a little too loud in the mix. The clap could probably come up a little on the other hand.
The mix doesn't sound super clean overall. I can't really advise more on that, it might be an EQ issue. You may have gone a bit heavy on some of the reverbs or need to hi/lo-cut some of them.
I would add some driving percussion to add momentum to the main section(s), and make more use of transitions, risers and sweeps etc.
Structurally, this feels like it needs some work. Most of all, there's not one element that seems like its really the centrepiece of the track, and the way things come in and out throughout the track feels a little haphazard - there's not a really obvious build-drop-etc. structure to the track. Hope that makes sense.
Having said all that I like where this is going, props.
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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: WAVO competitions a joke?
« on: January 25, 2016, 05:49:49 pm »Yeah I agree, recognition and exposure isn't necessarily everything, and at the day I would've wanted to make the remix of regardless of the competition, but still just frustrating!
It is frustrating for sure, I've been there. The thing that's worked for me is just trying to talk myself out of it, and over time I've found it easier and easier to let those kind of things slide.
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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Stereo Separation
« on: January 25, 2016, 05:34:51 pm »
Ahh so I'm not going to act like I know more than I do, but the problem is your perception of "width" (something that will get better over time, like a muscle)
What I mean is, using an audio stereoscope (like https://www.meldaproduction.com/images/screenshots_monitor/MStereoScope06.jpg) that track I linked to shows twice as much stereo dispersion as anything I've made. But listen to it and tell me what bits of it sound like they are really panned at all.
And sure, between graphs and your ears you should trust the latter more (once you know what you're doing anyhow), but I'm curious as to how a whole mix can sound wide with relatively little use of panning.
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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: WAVO competitions a joke?
« on: January 25, 2016, 10:29:41 am »
That's pretty much how it goes unfortunately. Not a whole lot you can do to change that aspect of human nature.
The hip hop producer Blockhead has been making beats for something like 15 years, and in a couple of recent blog posts he said that talent is probably about 4th or 5th on the list of things you need to make it big, behind connections, hard work, timing and just dumb luck.
I tend to agree with the notion that if you make music first and foremost for yourself, stuff like that won't bother you so much. On top of which, you're likely to make better music.
The hip hop producer Blockhead has been making beats for something like 15 years, and in a couple of recent blog posts he said that talent is probably about 4th or 5th on the list of things you need to make it big, behind connections, hard work, timing and just dumb luck.
I tend to agree with the notion that if you make music first and foremost for yourself, stuff like that won't bother you so much. On top of which, you're likely to make better music.
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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: How do you come up with song names?
« on: January 25, 2016, 10:08:52 am »95% of the time: When I finish a song, I listen to it with fresh ears and picture whatever it reminds me of.
3% of the time: I name it after a sample or whatever inspired the song.
1% of the time: Urban Dictionary
Most of the time I already have an idea for a name when I start making something, but then a lot of my ideas are of the type 'I want to make something like X but different in ways Y and Z'.
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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: What's ONE word that you believe is the most important in music production?
« on: January 25, 2016, 10:03:13 am »161
Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Anyone feeling like shit (musically)?
« on: January 25, 2016, 10:01:17 am »I'm too centered and content right now.
Ha
We can trade problems any time you like
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Sound Design / Re: Toms processing
« on: January 25, 2016, 09:57:19 am »Real toms are very resonant at certain frequencies (Floor toms in the low mids and rack toms in the high mids). They can also have a ton of sustain. Usually a mix of EQ, to bring up the punchy frequencies, followed by compression and a gate to cut the sustain will help them stand out in the mix better!
^ What (s)he said.
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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Stereo Separation
« on: January 25, 2016, 09:54:20 am »I think people got used to all kinds of "stereo knobs" so much they forgot the wonders of plain simple panning.What I don't get is how some tracks seem to have pretty much everything toward the centre, but in a stereoscope the image is quite wide.
As an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvePDQeh18
In the track I'm working on I've panned things so that (in headphones at least) the panning sounds quite extreme, but the overall image is only registering as about half as wide as the track I linked to.
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Finished Tracks / Re: Dreamy Clouds of Glass | Melodic Glitch/IDM?
« on: January 24, 2016, 10:27:12 pm »
Don't know anything about this kind of music but I like it. Bigups
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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: Drum Programming
« on: January 24, 2016, 10:25:15 pm »
^ Someone on here called soupandreas linked to Mr Carmack a few days back, I liked it. soupandreas' shit is dope too: https://soundcloud.com/soupandreas
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