A few points
- The bassline sounds slightly to digital
- The sub is way too loud and it's probably the cause of your fucked up compression that is way too noticeable.
- I think there are some ghosthits in your drums, but they are almost inaudible. Boost them a bit.
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kik and snare are really nice, i can sense what your trying to achieve with the orchestral stuff, which would sound great played by an orchestra, but sounds way to stiff as its coming out of a sampler. drop hits well, piano in the breakdown is good. I actually think the master sounds ok to me, i dont think your compression is "fucked up"
Not sure about this one, it sounds a bit oldskool dubstep (although the style is still young). The problem with it in my opinion is that it lacks tempo. In Dubstep the drums are not setting the tempo, but the other elements should do it. But in this tune everything more or less is slow.
The bass sound you picked doesn't really convince me, it would do better with some movement in it and it's quite harsh compared to the sofisticated story you are telling in there.
The arrangment is great though. But some of these strings sound quite "sample" or even midi file. Keep at it you are more than good enough to deliver pro quality tunes!
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like the start, the drums are good to, but i feel they are unnecasary and take away the atmosphere a little, however the build up to the drop is fantastic as well, bassline is a bit weird as well, beef it up and add something to it, like more distortion or a second bassline, as well as this change the violins with maybe a deadmau5 style synth or a calvin harris synth, would make the atmosphere and epicness of it better, also the build up is great, but drums should not be in that as well, do emphasise the high violin parts, but ok overall
