Liking the hats/shakers/percussion a lot, light and shuffly. You've got a steady groove going beneath that, it's simple but it works.

Overall atmosphere is cool, the filters on those incidental chords stabs are butter-soft and really nice

The intro chords have an unpleasant droning frequency at some points. Try EQing that out or perhaps toning down the resonance on that filter

The kick is really mid-heavy with a high thump, which kind of screws with the dark atmosphere. Maybe a different sample with its frequency peak somewhere lower and a bit more treble in the attack could work better?

Those short, sudden, thorough breaks were a bit disorienting for me, see if you can find something that sounds a bit more deliberate and less like the soundcard dropped out for a second

The horror-y vocal FX don't work as well as they could, I think. Maybe try experimenting with their pitch, or grain-stretch-reverb them, or do something else Might be necessary to switch out the sample

The pluck line doesn't integrate into the track, it's like it sits apart from the rest of the sound. This is probably a task for the EQ to take the edge off a little up top or softening the pluck's attack in the synth, perhaps some light sidechaining. You could also see if they need to be quite as loud in the first place. Also when it filters up the resonance may be a little too aggressive

Your arrangement spends a lot of time setting things up, and then a much smaller amount tearing them down, maybe you can spend some more time with the main part at the expense of some of the intro.

This link is pretty useful for keeping up with the forums: http://theproducersforum.com/index.php?action=unreadreplies

It shows you all threads you have posted in that have replies you haven't seen. Would be cool to have it on the front page, perhaps next to the Most Recent Posts, or in the top right above the forums list, or in the dropdown menu

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I mean it doesn't have to be the "hey im better than you" kind of thing. Could be a way of saying thank you to the person for using the site as often as they do

yeah i get that but the whole premise of this site is to have everyone basically be COMPLETELY equal, not putting anyone on some sort of pedestal

Then you should really consider putting the verification marks only on the profile page

The verification marks have nothing to do with that. It's to verify that someone is who they say they are. It's not some VIP deal they have with the admins.

Right. Read the post I linked; checkmark on the profile page = "I can verify this is who they say they are." checkmark on every post: "This poster is notable"

NastyVCS Air knob

I consciously try not to do any sum processing if I can get away without it, so there's only monitoring/analysis going on my master bus usually. I try to fix issues in the tracks, and sometimes I have a bus for certain elements that I want to treat together, but usually I'm just very very careful when I'm choosing sounds and mixing, and I try to have really clean premasters. My releases were then mastered by an engineer. For stuff I just put up on soundcloud I do a lazy limiting/maximizing pass that's literally just me in a wave editor looking at where the busiest portion of my mix sits and then dialing that into the limiter.

More generally speaking, a transient is the bit where the sound changes from quiet to loud (or vice versa). How long that takes influences the perception of the transient: shorter changes sound harder, more dry, more precise; longer changes sound softer.

Ah, gotcha.

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