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Need Help finishing this!! No idea :(
« on: May 09, 2016, 10:34:13 pm »
Hey all, so I've been working on this song that incorporates a mix of psytrance, techno, and progressive trance and don't know how I should have the drop. Right now, it drops into a techno -> trance chorus but I'm still hesitant on this. Let me know what you think, if I should keep it or if you have a better solution. And also tell me what you think about the overall song! Love to get any feedback on this (:

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Re: Need Help finishing this!! No idea :(
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2016, 11:59:34 pm »
Love it as always! Your music is so epic and encompassing. Honestly from an outsider perspective, i'd make that second drop giant, melodic, and filled with pumping pads. I actually was expecting this when i listened to the build. I imagined the kick hits, you hear that little pluck as you do now (except drowning in reverb as it is during the break) and then the pads come. So the pads wouldn't actually hit until the second kick during the drop (1/4bar of silence except for those plucks and kick) and then explosion. Kind of as ilan bluestone does often times with his drops...it sort of goes against the listeners expectations.

Overall the music and the mix is incredible. I think it could be louder. This is something I have struggled to get better at but it is of course all about using your headroom wisely, getting everything to around -2dB  and then adding a heavy maximizer/limiter to squash it all together.

Keep it up man!!
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Re: Need Help finishing this!! No idea :(
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2016, 07:39:09 pm »
Love it as always! Your music is so epic and encompassing. Honestly from an outsider perspective, i'd make that second drop giant, melodic, and filled with pumping pads. I actually was expecting this when i listened to the build. I imagined the kick hits, you hear that little pluck as you do now (except drowning in reverb as it is during the break) and then the pads come. So the pads wouldn't actually hit until the second kick during the drop (1/4bar of silence except for those plucks and kick) and then explosion. Kind of as ilan bluestone does often times with his drops...it sort of goes against the listeners expectations.

Overall the music and the mix is incredible. I think it could be louder. This is something I have struggled to get better at but it is of course all about using your headroom wisely, getting everything to around -2dB  and then adding a heavy maximizer/limiter to squash it all together.

Keep it up man!!

Thanks bud! I like that idea, I'll try it out. The problem I think is figuring out a good 8-measure chord progression that fits with this song. I want it to be different that the build's chord progression so I'll fiddle around with it. And yeah, the loudness and heaviness I'll work on after I get this drop down (: Stay tuned!
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