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BattleDrone 
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The sax sounds a bit artificial and maybe the melodies are a bit too complex to hide the fact that it's a soundfont. This could work with live sax. I think the track would benefit form a less dominant sax though. This is too much the DnB version from Laurent Garnier's "The man with the red face".
All in all far from bad and as a first posting it is really good. Overall the track sounds a bit too clean and the sounds are to standard midi for my taste.
Instead of 2 synchronic melodies with the sax you could try to use 1 different instrument because it sounds so over-busy this way.
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25-11-2007 14:23 |
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Seven Gun
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welcome!
i am a big sax fan so the sample works for me.
the beats need layering better tho.
adding kick on kick and so on.
your melodies seem all good. the idea here is fine, just work on your beats and bass a bit more.
also, try get your hands on a good eq tutorial.
peace.
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26-11-2007 18:10 |
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Tomos
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Pretty good melodies but the beats are a bit lacking. They need to be more upfront and flow a bit more. I do like some of your melodies tho, particularly the stringy bits. I'm a sucka for strings! The sax? Yeah, pretty nice stuff, good sound and I like the way you have two different sax playing at the same time. Would like to hear a bit more drama in the melodies tho, more highs and lows and perhaps a few extra sounds in there to define the track a bit more.
.. oh, it just finished. Needs a little work on the beats, but nice track man.
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26-11-2007 19:28 |
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Binary Havoc
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EZ Minas
Good to see you get your first post up here man 
I think the beats are good but maybe a little too fancy, maybe need beefing up a tad with a few layered single hits??
Like your strings n bass synth parts but again maybe you could add some interest by layering those patterns up with some other parts to add a bit more interest??
Sax works for me but will be much better when you record it live.
Good work
Lookin forward to your next tune
Peace man
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26-11-2007 19:31 |
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Paracyte
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ello mate.
very nice melodic intro like it ! Bass line seems be very nice and what ? you come with this sax ! o m g this was complete mistake ! very nice melodic track ,nice pads ,but imho this sax got destiny to get f out 
in ur posission i will go to some synths , Those sax'es are not bad they souds very nice but NOT IN THIS TRACK ,really ,get rid of them , put some killer synths and melodic frazes ,cos bass line is beggin for it 
Great work (except sax)
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27-11-2007 06:55 |
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Phalanx
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Thanks a lot for the comments everyone. I'm going to give this piece a break for a week or so and overhaul the beats.
I played trombone for four years in a jazz ensemble in high school, and the whole point of this tune for me was to make a jazz/DnB fusion track. I think I'm going to keep the sax; whether or not it fits depends on personal taste I guess. I'll probably tone down its dominance in the piece though.
I'll try to come up with a couple more melodic elements and effects to tie the piece together.
Thanks again for the feedback, this site has helped me a lot!
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27-11-2007 10:27 |
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coddy
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the jazzy sax does not fit the techy mechy beats
the main parts of any good dnb tune should be the drums and the bass.
at the moment the bass is IMO boring lose it use the sax and the beats then build a bassline around the melody of the sax and the timing of the drums
good stuff for a begginer however the sax is growing on me more than anything else.
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05-12-2007 17:03 |
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