Here's an early preview of a new track I'm working on. Still needs a lot of work. Body is too repetetive, and the intro is a bit lame atm. I'll change that, but for now you can see where it's going.
It's acually not a crash cymbal, but a cut up horizons break (which has that kind of cybal over the kick, which I liked a lot in a track but I can't come up witht the name) and later comes, layered over that, a cut up samurai break and a kick. Both horizons and samurai have quite some rides and hats going on, hence the overload of hi end in the intro. But that was what I wanted. Is it too much?
BTW, anyone who knows from what movie I got this sample about LSD? Tip: it's Christina Ricci's voice you hear
__ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim"
- Pieter Frenssen 2004
Originally posted by Surya
Both horizons and samurai have quite some rides and hats going on, hence the overload of hi end in the intro. But that was what I wanted. Is it too much?
For my view it is. But I can't really judge it listening it
on 2x30 watt monitors...
For sure it's easy to fix. Just some EQing.
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Originally posted by Surya
That track I was talking about : Rawthang - Epilogue
Intro:
The intro part has a nicy filled up feeling and I like the high end.
Beats:
The beats (0:21) start too abrupt for my taste but like always they are filled up well and have a good dancable feeling
I'm not fond of the building-up beat (1:24), it has too much 4/4 signature feeling for me.
After the build-up (1:38 ) the "holes" into the rhytm have a nice feeling but it is used somewhat to extensively for my taste. Try to use it more as a teaser?
Bassline:
The bassline is a bit oldstyle but certainly not bad! Watch out with EQ on the lowest subnotes because my monitor boxes show a big difference in strength with other less-low notes (example 1:46-1-49). My Hifi suffocates on these notes when played on decent volume
Conclusion:
Something to go on with but when pulling this of as a whole track some kind of clear lead won't do bad (my opinion of course).
This post has been edited 2 time(s), it was last edited by Akura: 29-06-2004 21:59.
Yeah, as you all mention: still a lot of EQ work on thisone. Did it quickly to make it sound not too bad, but I'm certainly not finished with that part, nor any other.
Glad you guys like it!
__ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim"
- Pieter Frenssen 2004
LOL I just accidentally launched the file twice in Firefox by holding down ctrl while clicking on it. I thought it would save it to HD but instead it started playing again in the background. And even when it's played double it still sound OK
The crash cymbal sounds strange indeed, MP3 artifacts?
But what a great track, love them old skool influences and the lofi kick!!! You should be stopping with whatever else you're wasting your time on, and start making music full time 12 hours a day!
Nice buildup, and I already looked over my shoulder twice when the voice comes in in the middle, thought somebody came in behind me (twice!
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OK guess you need some more specific feedback.
String pads in the beginning may be more quiet asa the music begins, or filtered or whatever, they're not that important anymore after the first few secs. You can bring it back to the front when it pitches up. You should do more with it than just fade it out after pitching it up, maybe a nice stuttering delay or something??
Damn that voice spooked me again
The militaristic sounding drums are great, really jumping, basslines fit in nicely.
More comments when it's in a more finished state
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Wow, one of the most enthousiastic reviews I ever got. And to get that from you... tnx a lot!!!
The fade out of the string is unintentional, I am going to change it. It's just that the sample is too short, and it fades out by itself... Not sure yet what I'm going to do with it, I'll keep your idears in mind!
__ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim"
- Pieter Frenssen 2004
Awesome track so far! I like the drums and the high-hats. High end is a bit too loud in the beginning... Bassline is nice... The voices would sound better (in my opinion) if they had some effects added to them...like a phazer...or maybe a little delay...otherwise awesome track!
Checked the mp3 again for the "crash" issue. And it sounds quite like it does in Buzz, so no mp3 compression problems. It's just how that horizons kick sounds... But it is indeed quite loud, I will turn it down a bit.
__ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim"
- Pieter Frenssen 2004
Yeah it's that the crash sounds a bit 'phased' and 'hollow' like happens with bitrate compression. Maybe the sample's coming from an MP3 or minidisc source or something?
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I have the rawthang epilogue single...i dont really see where that came from with this....this is deffinitely a tech-step feel...it sounds like a couple of my bootleg versions of some tech-i tch singles i have...i like it a lot..this is deff the shit i would play...really looking forward to the final works...breaks in the begging are good, but dont work with the break down...and maybe some more bass in the breakdown, you have a lot of gaps that are silent(WHICH I LIKE) but it seems like there should be some sound effects or some sub in there to make an interesting fill...again looking forward to the final..awesome stuff..
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