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Travis_Huckins Travis_Huckins is a male
Rogue Ai


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Please check out my new track 'Basstronika' and post your comments here!

I know that I had a rocky start here, Now I understand more about making dnb, because of this site. Anyway, I spent a long time on this one. Every patch is original or greatly tweaked. Let me know how I can improve this.

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24-08-2008 09:17 Homepage of Travis_Huckins
BattleDrone BattleDrone is a male
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It's quite an improvement over your previous tunes.
sounds like synthpop rather than DnB to me.
It needs subbass, punchier drums, dirtyness. It's so middle-of-the-road now.
DnB is not about this kind of ongoing melodies, it's about groove and uproaring rhythms rather than playing chords. Your tune doesn't "touch" me.
A groove can be created by playing bass stabs rather than bassnotes that make one continuous sound.
Those drums need to smack you you in the face, especialy the kick and snare need to dominate the sound.
Imagine being on a dancefloor with 100 other people and this tune is being dropped. What would happen? How would the crowd feel about this?

Give some links to tunes you like and I'll tell you what makes them better (in a strict DnB way) than your tune.

What Soft did you use to make this tune?

You are on the road to success when you continue to work hard and improve.

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24-08-2008 12:59 Homepage of BattleDrone
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yeah , a lot lot better , soundz clearer , still needs some adjustments , but sounding nice , bit too techy 4 me , but im not going to score any lower 4 that , so over all , nice , a lot better than the last 3 mate !!!!!!!!
24-08-2008 13:00
Travis_Huckins Travis_Huckins is a male
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quote:
Originally posted by BattleDrone
playing bass stabs rather than bassnotes


How about I change the bassline I got better one now made up of stabs like you said.
Oh, instead of using the thor synth in reason 4 I am going to use Cyberworms dnb synths they sound better than my synth.

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24-08-2008 15:38 Homepage of Travis_Huckins
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Hey man

Quite like the intro, synth lead is a bit quirky and poppy but not bad

Kick n snare work ok together but could definately punch through the mix more for me. At the moment the mix is dominated by the bass synth line.

Breakdown at 1:52 is ok. the melody there is odd, its very nearly right but something is throwing it out. Maybe the 2nd half of the melodic phrase??

Beats are definately the bit that need the most work in terms of mixdown.

Peace out

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24-08-2008 19:52 Homepage of Binary Havoc
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