Please check out my new track 'Evacuate!' and post your comments here!
I created this track with reason 4(synths and bass), Record(For the drums), and cubase for the arrangement and effects.
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Rogue AI-Death Star
01-09-2009 03:35
fantasque unregistered
WOW!this track is tight. kickd & snare work together well, the "wä-wä" sound keeps you awake,
the rhythm itself keeps you moving all the time. well done!!! then suddenly a tb303 emerges. NICE!
the "reese" bassline is awesome. the mixing is so far my monitors "say": WELL DONE! the glassy sound add something creepy. the subbass is the way i like it. you can FEEL and hear it a bit.
great track!!! GREAT!!! and again... the "wä-wä" sound is a winner.
Not a bad intro, your snare sounds funny. Not long enogh decay I think. Drums need more groove to them really, bit robotish
Love the bass/synth, posibly distort it a bit more to give it that gindy edge.
The drums need to come up, they're being muffles by the other sounds.
The tune does have some nice points, but it is a bit disjointed. Your bassline starts of well, but gets confusing and messy with some of the other melodies. I think you should take the better bass lines and write something else with it really.
It is supposed to be a neurofunk track well at least the bass, I don't really like to only use 1 or 2 basslines. Any idea which ones are the good ones? Are they the 1st one itn the 1st drop and the 1st one in the second drop? Sometime I reverse the bassline to make a new bassline are these the confusing ones?
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Rogue AI-Death Star
This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by Travis_Huckins: 01-09-2009 07:16.
01-09-2009 07:07
fantasque unregistered
the bassline (tb303like) starting 2:21 is great. but i would add some distortion so it turns from "dam-dam" into "dääm-dääm". from nice into "what is going here?"-dirty. and maybe a little delay so it bangs between the beat.
and maybe a dark gritty pad here and the there to enhance the melody? well, just some thoughts... ;-)
(by the way... as u r working with reason4, too, any chance to get the rns file of ur track to evolve my production knowledge?)
starters mate i dont particulary like the hi synths uv used in the intro-wel not 4 this tune neway-thats down to proper personal taste.much more like it wen the twisted synth cummin in-think wen it drops that mid bass cud do wiv bin boosted in sum way-eq,compressor/limiter.pretty cool bassline tho i really aint feelin the 8 bars of repeatin on bout 1.49-fink it has potential to be absolutely amazin tho-diffrent edits on each bar/cupple bars/fatter drum roll last bar/2-sum fx 2 build it up r jus a cupple ideas to make it flow better-ye man ther defo way 2 much variations on b-lines-i am also very guilty of this as i expect like u i jus love really intrestin tracks but hav been critisid 4 it n hav started makin a bit simpler but much more effectiv tracks-fink the key is to play wiv ur bass sound till u fink 'yes thats the 1' n then base the whole track round that (imo neway) newayz despite comments was feelin this track-quite mad but fair play 4 the inventive ideas n now after listenin to the track 4 bout the 10th time(after this fukin long reveiw!)i actually fink the intro synths work fine wiv the track n by the way the 2nd drops MUCH better imo but stick to the b-line that cums in 1st on the 2nd drop.safe.
enjoyed that first intro althought i thik that the first beat u dropped had too much in it.. not leaving anything else to be dropped once the lead kicked in.. i dont rele hear a bass.. i lik ethe feeling of this.. not my style but i think that the dark feeling was achived. the lead is maybe a lil too loud. but good one man
I really like the sound of your bassline and its warpiness (he tone and modulations are top notch.) but your beat just doesn't stand up to it, it doesnt' have enough balls imo.
Kick could do with more low end thump and the snare has no real low end to speak of.
I think in general the beat has too much going on and it lack definition.
Shame really as I love the bassline.
What tempo is it at as well? Sound really fast, think it could benefit from a slight slower BPM to give things more room to breathe.
