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WIPs / Re: Some light, liquid dnb
« on: January 11, 2016, 12:55:16 pm »
Hey man, the atmosphere in this track sounds great.

Advice:

1. Drums in DnB are so frequent they tend to clutter up the mix if they have long transients. I would suggest a tighter/shorter kick & snare. Give it a bit of compression. A nice light amount of sidechain and it won't cut through so harshly.

2. One technique I've learned over the past while making Liquid DnB is sweeps and crashes really add to a track. They don't need to be large impacts or crashes, just something that kind of wraps around the peaks and valleys of your track. It will hit that stereo field nicely and almost feel like it's wrapping around your head. If you're using Ableton, just use the native Utility effect and give it a bit of stereo spread. You can add some nice lush reverb onto it to give it some fluidity.

3. I'd give your hi hats a bit of a re work. They're there but I had to critically listen to really figure out exactly where they were. Trying using a more fine high hat sample, not as much of a sample kind of sounding "white noisy" if that makes sense lol.

Overall the track sounds good, I think the biggest thing is the Drum work. And by all means I am no pro, so if someone has a seperate opinion please do correct me! I'm a up and coming producer myself and am willing to take any knowledge I can get!

Cheers!


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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Skype/Producers/Internet Friends
« on: January 11, 2016, 12:25:06 pm »
Awesome thread :)

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For myself, my general state of mind usually influences my current productions. I find myself heading into directions of pure bliss for a period of time and one little thing can change my mindset and send me in the opposite direction and allow me to access a completely different head space. Not something that is easy to explain, but I try not to fight these feelings.

Mat touched on isolation, and I completely agree. I've made some of my best tracks after being heart broken or fresh into a new relationship.

With all that being said, I've pulled inspiration and creativity from simply just telling myself to one up my last "best track".

Inspiration & Creativity can be found in many places. And every person draws different energies from different things. Try thinking back to tracks you've created and feel proud of, and try to remember what brought out the creativity in that track. One thing I started doing was attaching a Note Document to every track I've completed with my thoughts and feelings that surged through me while producing said track.


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