drumnbass.be forum » Production » Tunes » muaddib - Hacker's Modem (Denial of Service) muaddib - Hacker's Modem (Denial of Service) Author Post Muad'Dib Andrejnalin Registration Date: 02-12-2003 Posts: 4,197 Helpfulness rating:  Please check out my new track 'Hacker's Modem (Denial of Service)' and post your comments here. Just plain old drum n bass track, the best I've done till now. :) Check it and write, pls :) 10x __ Thinking about becoming an Image-Line/FL Studio customer? Want a 10% reduction in price? Use this affiliate link: http://affiliate.image-line.com/BADEBDG473 There is no such thing without its opposite -Bene Gesserit 20-08-2004 18:34 Surya The Robot Registration Date: 04-11-2002 Posts: 11,238 Helpfulness rating:  Vocal in the intro seems quite loud. Wow, nice drums, liking em Make the extra layer (rimshot like) a bit more varied with ghosthits, it's a bit too straight now... Vocals in the breakdown are too loud again. Hoover sounds nice, but the melody is a bit dull... The other melody that goes with it is nice though. You're really making progres, especially in the drums department, great. But your melodies still need a lot of work. 2.5/5 __ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim" - Pieter Frenssen 2004 20-08-2004 20:55 D-Pitch Danny Jenk D-Pitch Registration Date: 24-07-2004 Posts: 96 Helpfulness rating:  boh drums are good like the close delayed out drums u do at end of drum sections, vocals are a nice ,has a modern old skool feel to it 2.5 /5 good work __ --------------------------------- MORE TRACKS click here click here 21-08-2004 11:19 thechronic admin Registration Date: 01-11-2002 Posts: 5,293 Helpfulness rating:  Wow I was impressed by this tune, your production quality improves with every track you make, keep it up!! Like Surya said the drums sound really good, nice programming and sample selection. The kick drum sounds and the other drum sounds fit in really well. I think it's funny you programmed the first half of the closed hihat pattern in a way that imitates some typical dnb drumloops which have been overcompressed, causing the hihat to be dropped because the kick drum drives the compressor. You get the effect that the hihat disappears when the kick plays, which is exactly how you programmed it. Probably this was not intentional but IMO it's a nice touch Second hihat pattern really fills up the first one and makes the break roll, good!! Snare can be a bit more powerful imo, can be sorted by boosting the eq a bit around 200-400 Hz and making it a tiny bit louder. The soft short buzz sound melody in the background which is present from the very start of the song sounds nice too, and has a very good rhythm and progressive buildup. Good use of reverb. The layering is good too, the sounds are all seperated really well and take their place in the frequency spectrum. Stereo wise you can do some more, you have some stereo movement on the dark pad, but all the rest is more or less in the middle. Especially the marimba sound (2:34) can have every note placed in a different spot in the stereo image, try that! If you then also vary the amount of reverb on every note, along with the loudness, you can make it sound like it is played in 3D all around you, closer (louder + less reverb) and further away (softer + more reverb). Voice is nice (is it yours??), but perhaps spoken a bit too fast. Cool accent It is also noticeable that the second person ("You'll see...") is the same as the first person, but just pitched down Maybe find somebody else to speak this part? It's great that you are recording your own speech samples, a good example that you don't need to sample other people's work and possibly get copyright trouble when you want to release the track. The melodies have improved much over your earlier work, they are not so static anymore, but they can use a bit of improvement, especially the rave sound gets boring after a while. In any way I always thought you would improve by time, but I didn't think you would improve so fast I wonder how your next track will sound!!! __ If you find spam on the site, please hit the button and select my name. I'll personally kick it to the murky depths of hell where it belongs! 06-09-2004 18:18 Taliban Tourist Registration Date: 07-09-2004 Posts: 13 I liked synth in this track! but where the bass??? i think with good bass line track heard better. its good drams line there and this string(background) 3,5/5 13-09-2004 16:31 drumnbass.be forum » Production » Tunes » muaddib - Hacker's Modem (Denial of Service)