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Vae Victis - The Tournament (RAW MIX)
« on: May 13, 2016, 02:58:39 pm »
This is my latest track in progress. I try to create some summer vibe dirty house thing  8)
It's not mastered thought



I'll need some good advice from you guys! Feedback is most welcome  ;)

Thank you guys and cheers !  :D

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Re: Vae Victis - The Tournament (RAW MIX)
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2016, 04:55:53 am »
I definitely would take some reverb off of the kick - it doesn't need it and almost takes away from the rest of the mix. I really like the vocal work at the beginning though, the sample are cool and used well.

I like the melody of the synth that comes in at 0:30, but I don't love the timbre of the sound. I think it's a little too natural sounding, and isn't quite processed enough. I like the trance-y lead that comes in behind however starting at 0:45 though - it has good energy and has good presence in the mix.

I like the buildup starting at 1:19, but I think if you would add some white noise to it it would really make it shine. I would also cut the vocal samples at 1:31, I think that section would sound harder without them.

The mix actually isn't too bad so far, even before mastering, nice work on that! Not too bad of a vibe in this track either!

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Re: Vae Victis - The Tournament (RAW MIX)
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2016, 08:19:45 pm »
Thoughts as i listened:
0:38- vocal needs more echo
0:52- synth sounds very bland, not very interesting at all
1:20- nice buildup
1:35- unsure if this is supposed to be the break or if it's building up to sometihng

Only skimmed through the rest when i realized it's much of the same.

Imo, you need a stronger kick (i recommend getting Nicky Romero Kick) and you need to look up popular EDM/big house music tracks for song structure. Going into detail with all i'd like to see changed would take far to long time and I can't really explain why I feel some things sound off. Try DJing to see the similarities between the popular songs, because they really are similar and use the same  techniques
I would write something here, but I'm too lazy to do so