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rivalfaction rivalfaction is a male
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Please check out my new track 'Red Shoes' and post your comments here!

A reworking of a track I started a while back, but have just got massive and played around on that.

made in fl8
24-11-2009 00:22
thechronic thechronic is a male
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First impression: I thought two tracks were playing at once. That's not really good Frown You have multiple loops stacked which don't play together nicely. The main culprit is the hihat loop which doesn't roll with the kick and snare.

You also have set up the master compression badly. It is causing heavy pumping on the drums, making everything sound even less defined. You can hear this very well at 2:57 when the compressor 'opens up' and everything suddenly sounds 10x better.
Also between 4:20-4:24 this is very apparent, you can hear the drums squashing the life out of the bass and lead.

My advice is to kill the master compressor completely until you know how to properly set it up. You will learn this eventually, don't worry too much about it.

You need to work on your balance first. Your drums are way too loud in comparison to your bass and lead. You just can't hear it because of the compressor messing things up Wink

Melodies are nice, and the bass and lead sound nice and full when they play on their own. You have good ideas but lack some mixing experience, you'll get there sooner than later!

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25-11-2009 19:35 Homepage of thechronic
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It has a good beat and melody with pro sounding instruments.. But its boring and repedetive.
28-11-2009 08:54
BattleDrone BattleDrone is a male
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Drums sound low-passed (muffled) and they get pressed away by the other stuff at times.


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30-11-2009 09:31 Homepage of BattleDrone
Paracyte Paracyte is a male
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hi

There is to much delay or reverb on main makes it sounds very strange or there is something wrong with stereo in this one. Hihats sounds not clear, to much mid-freq ? Some of the sounds are pretty cool, but quality and repetivness dragging all down.

Keep the work.

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30-11-2009 15:47
Dethworm Dethworm is a male
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quote:
Originally posted by thechronic
First impression: I thought two tracks were playing at once. That's not really good Frown You have multiple loops stacked which don't play together nicely. The main culprit is the hihat loop which doesn't roll with the kick and snare.

You also have set up the master compression badly. It is causing heavy pumping on the drums, making everything sound even less defined. You can hear this very well at 2:57 when the compressor 'opens up' and everything suddenly sounds 10x better.
Also between 4:20-4:24 this is very apparent, you can hear the drums squashing the life out of the bass and lead.

My advice is to kill the master compressor completely until you know how to properly set it up. You will learn this eventually, don't worry too much about it.

You need to work on your balance first. Your drums are way too loud in comparison to your bass and lead. You just can't hear it because of the compressor messing things up Wink

Melodies are nice, and the bass and lead sound nice and full when they play on their own. You have good ideas but lack some mixing experience, you'll get there sooner than later!


exactly this....

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30-11-2009 17:29 Homepage of Dethworm
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