Quote from: Flowstate on January 15, 2016, 06:25:33 pm

I just wouldn't want it to feel like I just copied the melody and put a kick on it. Idk, how would you make the drop?

I couldn't tell you tbh, that's entirely up to you! You could take it in a bunch of directions - one chord one note banger, or something like A&B's Hello, or something where the main section is quite proggy and sparse and minimal. Depends entirely on the track you want to make.

Are you into Sasha's stuff at all? If it was my track I'd probably take my inspiration from something like Belfunk (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koFt_nDnIS0), but I doubt I have the production chops to pull that off. Just a thought though. I love that Sasha tune.

I've never heard of Sasha but I'm digging the progressive techno to it! Will explore this artist more in depth now haha. I honestly have no idea, I love the chord progression I have, but using that as the chorus would be too expected you know? Maybe adding techno would work as well.

Had a listen.

Melody wise (for me) it's a bit too long. I would cut out the first minute, because it's not that interesting.

The part after that is interesting. Kinda Above & beyond style.. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DfDsjOfEq8

Would be good to have someone sing over it..

Definitely on the right track! Can see it will be released if worked out properly.

Interesting! I love A&B (: Yeah I can't get out of the progressive part of production so I tend to drag things out for too long or keep something in that may be unnecessary. I'll see if I can put something a little more captivating for the beginning part! Do you have any recommendations of how the beginning should be?

Hey man! try panning some of the timbre opposite of each other. Another way to add space is to take a simple delay, turn up the dry/wet to 100%, feedback 0%, put the L to 0.00ms and the R to 0.12ms. This creates the illusion of space because your ears pick up the sound .12ms faster on the L side than the R side. Also what the above commenter said. Don't just put a reverb on it, you'll kill the impact of the song.

Two better solutions would be
1) throw the reverb (or delay) onto a return track and send whatever you want to that channel
2) put a compressor on your clip, group it, then put the reverb (or delay) right next to it on the chain list so the sound splits into two separate outputs. (I work with Ableton, so I don't know if this makes sense for other DAWs) Both essentially are to preserve the normal sound while adding the effect onto it.

Think of it like icing on a cake. Don't replace the entire cake with icing.

Hope that helps!

Emotionally, this song is fantastic. The melodies are spot on and wonderful to listen to.
Production is spot on as well.
Only critique is that it gets a tad cluttered when those drum hits come in.
Spectacular job man!
Cheers

Thanks, that's good to hear! Yeah I the crashes are a bit too loud maybe? Maybe I should cut the lower frequencies off it even more? I'm not sure. I also flattened out a reverb kick and then a very clean kick so it maybe be the reverb kick that creates the clutter. I want to keep the long release kick though so I wouldn't know a way around that without having it sound to "up front". What do you think?