Quote from: Bertie South on February 04, 2016, 10:50:56 pm

Well it's a lovely tune, but isn't anybody going to chide this 'Mat_Zo' fella for not leaving feedback for others first? 

He's actually left feedback on other user's post, so dont judge without researching.
I would almost say he doesn't NEED to leave feedback, he CREATED this site with Rishi, and that's where his credit is

No worries, I was jesting good buddy!

I don't think there's a great deal to it, just that both sounds are made in a similar way, or from the same source, so that they have a matching tonal quality. This makes it sound natural (as does the swing kick being quieter than the main kick) as it would if you were playing a real kit.

The reason this is difficult if you're working with samples is that hitting a drum harder doesn't just result in a louder sound but one with a sharper transient and a greater range of frequencies, among other things. So any drums you're working with to make a swing pattern, you'd want samples of soft and hard hits to make it sound convincing.

That kick is noice

The overall mix is a bit bass-heavy. I think you need to work with the vocal levels a bit - they sound about right in the really stripped down sections at the beginning and in the middle, but they seem to get quieter when other sounds start coming in. Also that reverbed sound that starts at 1:52 didn't sound quite right when I listened.

One of the notes in your bassline (1:08 is the first one) *might* need changing - I can't decide if it works or not. At 3:16 with that guitar it's creating some pretty complex harmonics (I think that's the right word) that maybe don't fit the song. I'd get some other opinions on this though, it's partly just personal taste.

I do actually like this btw, even if it doesn't sound like it from the above

I'm don't have much to comment on this (in a good way I mean) - your levels are good, nothing's too loud or too quiet. The overall mix sounds a bit bass-heavy, but pretty much everything I've ever made has been guilty of that, and it's nothing to sweat at this stage. This really isn't a bad track at all if it's the first thing you've made. I rediscovered a couple of my first productions the other day and I almost cried with shame listening to them


Don't worry about mastering at this stage btw, and don't be under the impression that you'll need mastering to persuade people that your tracks are good. A good song will be self-evidently good without mastering or even a mixdown to be honest. Those things are just polish.

This is nice man, you have a good ear for rhythm. I like how the track has little switches between 1/3 and 1/4 beats, one of my favourite little tricks that is...


Difficult to comment on much else as it's only a short clip, feel free to post the whole track up!

I don't think there's anything wrong with considering a creative outlet one of your priorities. Sure, some people seem content to live as passive, unthinking drones, but self-expression and mastery of skills are legitimate needs, at least if you consider personal happiness to be important (which it absolutely is). It might not be 'productive' in a direct sense, but to the extent that it makes a positive contribution to the person you are when you're dealing with more tangible things (by making you happier, among other things), it contributes to your productivity anyway.


I'm guessing you might have read it already, but I think you'd like Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (sp?)