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house track WIP
« on: January 12, 2016, 10:44:53 pm »
https://clyp.it/dverox1a

Not really sure where I'm going with this. Any ideas would be helpful!

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Re: house track WIP
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2016, 12:38:26 pm »
I had to make sure that your clicky drums were deliberate and not artefacts from a choppy player (to be fair, I've had trouble with clyp.it timing out a bunch of times, so it's not just the sounds that made me look twice, but they really do sound a lot like something went wrong with the playback!). Where do you want to go with this? You haven't really locked down anything yet. The bassline reminded me a little of this :)

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Re: house track WIP
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2016, 01:16:15 pm »
its got a cool techy vibe. the kick is a little knocky--it could be better if it was a little fuller/deeper and if you took some of the knock out around 300-700hz. or try adding a Corpus > Kick Tight instance (if you're using ableton) to fatten it up.

clap could definitely be louder/more present/stronger in the second half, and you could experiment with some added syncopated hits. i think the hats/percussion could be glued together a little more with some light compression. or you could try to make them more of a focus by messing with their pitch over time or something like a flanger/phaser.

the bouncey groove is definitely there and i like when the keys come in in the second half.

i think if you polish it up and make all the sounds a little fuller and more precise, it could stand on its own as a minimal tech track (after adding some FX here and there like one shots but also maybe some risers that pitch up/down over long periods to maintain interest). it may need some more variation/additions in the percussion section (like switching to more open hats halfway thru; using bursts of white noise; adding more rhythmic percussion) but I think it's a good shell for tech house. you could even experiment with adding a vocal sample that loops, so people have something more to latch on to

reminded me of this a little in how its repetitive and then the piano comes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwDQQfSK0as
« Last Edit: January 13, 2016, 01:21:55 pm by mcgold »