drumnbass.be forum » Production » Tunes » TEST - TEST-BIG WEDGE TEST - TEST-BIG WEDGE Author Post TEST Producer Registration Date: 25-09-2007 Posts: 66 Please check out my new track 'TEST-BIG WEDGE' and post your comments here!!! This is the very first tune i,ve made in REASON!And proberly about the 7th tune i,ve ever made!!! so ive not uploaded this track to get great reviews! but a lil feedbk would b awesome!!!!! hit me...... big ups to drumnbass.be fam! TEST 10-11-2007 17:28 Timmi Atmos T (aka Timmi) Registration Date: 04-11-2007 Posts: 207 Helpfulness rating:  Yo Test! Big ups on that track, its really good as a first attempt for a full track in reason. I think the melodies of the track really work in the jump up style but I would make a few adjustments. I think the rhythms of the drums work well, but it would work better if the drums had more hi hats or added softer drums in the background just to make the drums a bit more flowing. You have also used a square-wave sound in the bass, which sounds good, but many producers will have a similar sound because most plugins and synths have a standard square wave setting. To get a more unique sound you could use the scream distortion effect in the rack for example. Have a look in the reason presents too, in particular the combinator patches, they may not be good to produce a dnb track but u can see how they combine reason instruments (like a subtractor with scream distortion) to create more interesting sounds. Timmi __ www.myspace.com/atmostuk Atmos T - You See Me EP Out now 4 free download ** http://www.sendspace.com/file/6q3frj ** 11-11-2007 00:48 TEST Producer Registration Date: 25-09-2007 Posts: 66 yes timmi,liken ya kind words man! some gud tips and ideas!!! big ups..... 11-11-2007 10:48 BattleDrone 2161... the future. Registration Date: 30-12-2005 Posts: 6,413 Helpfulness rating:  If you tried to make a DnB rhythm, then work on that first because it doesn't work. Choose a drumkit that sounds less machine, or better, load a sliced break and work with that to get a feel for good Dnb drums.... At first you should try to make it work with just drums and bass. Other elements will find their way in automatically. __ Check my soundcloud (exclusive tracks on there) 11-11-2007 10:52 Binary Havoc Binary Havoc Registration Date: 25-07-2007 Posts: 730 Helpfulness rating:  EZ Test Battledrone gave some good advice when he said to try n start with a break. Using a sampled break is fine, It'll give you a good staring point. Why not try layerin your own drum hits over a sampled break? That'll give you a decent idea of where kicks n snares etc sit in a dnb break. You'll be better at writing your own beats by doing this. The bass n synth here are ok. The glide on the bass is a bit too long imo n both of the instrument choices could have been a bit more interesting. The important thing is to keep writing tunes. The more you write, the more you'll learn n the better your tunes will get. Nice one BH __ http://soundcloud.com/binaryhavoc/dropbox 11-11-2007 18:20 TEST Producer Registration Date: 25-09-2007 Posts: 66 yes bh!u sound like u kno ur stuff bro.i,ll get down to trying out new ways of layering beats and so on..... big ups maan!!! 12-11-2007 22:39 Phalanx Chronologic Registration Date: 13-09-2007 Posts: 333 Helpfulness rating:  Hey Test, I'm pretty new to making computer music, and especially new to the drum and bass scene. Your piece sounds a lot like some of my earlier stuff, so you might be able to use the same resources I did in order to progress. The beats: I'm starting to get the hang of sequencing a break beat. The key is knowing what drum elements to use and where to use them. To learn, I downloaded sets of drum samples available here and sliced them, rearranging the parts until they sounded right. I tried to slice samples to imitate the patterns of other samples. After a bit of experimentation I began to understand the basics of the DnB beat. I found these links very helpful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOiexfpZrWI http://www.simonv.com/tutorials/reason.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1BI-KVnJuE (Look at some of Panda DnB's other tutorials as well.) It was also interesting to see real-life break beat drummers. This video and the accompanying sheet music helped me in getting the drums feeling right. http://www.drummerworld.com/Videos/Jojom...oveandslow.html As far as your synth, it's alright. If you can get the beat down, you can put distortion in the bass that flows with the groove. Even with the wealth of tutorials out there, getting nice distortion was very hard for me. I ended up putting two layers of synth together, one more high passed, and one more low passed. I crossfaded between the two, while altering the cutoff frequency for the filters. That gave me some acceptable distortion, whether that's right or not Good luck with your track, I hope that helped. __ http://soundcloud.com/chronologic 13-11-2007 09:35 Tomos Infidel Registration Date: 15-04-2007 Posts: 2,276 Helpfulness rating:  Best thing about this track is the bass sounds, which are pretty good. However, everything else needs a lot of work because the mix is sounding pretty flat, especially the beats. The beats have gotta roll and get your head bobbin but this is too slow and drum-machine-like to do either. But keep trying because this tune definitely has some potential there. __ MySpace | Soundcloud | Drumnbass.be | Facebook "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." Carl Sagan 13-11-2007 20:32 Shinyuri myspace.com/shinyuribeats Registration Date: 05-01-2007 Posts: 422 Helpfulness rating:  gota say that this aint really dnb but i kinda like it man! like the machine like drums on it! the bass is quite good too - some interesting ideas floating about on this one agree with the BD about layering the drums. also - try thinking about an intro and an outro. best way to do that is to load up a sample and then try repeating it - if its funky, keep it! anyways, keep at it man __ www.myspace.com/shinyuribeats revel in the crapness of the website and then hit the add button... go on, do it, u know u wanna 14-11-2007 05:51 Seven Gun dotbee 4eva Registration Date: 16-01-2007 Posts: 2,232 Helpfulness rating:  ez test. firstly you need to layer your beats a bit more. like add kick on kick, snare on snare etc. also they need some fillers to make it roll and glue together more. bass sounds ok. work it bro. __ "When you lose, dont lose the lesson" 17-11-2007 01:21 TEST Producer Registration Date: 25-09-2007 Posts: 66 NEW VERSION TO BE UPLOADED SOON................................................. 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