GreatFisherCat
Cool Producer
Registration Date: 21-06-2005
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oijoi...... LOUD intro atleast! Yes. too loud. Youre hard limited your tune too much, your dynamics are upsidedown => intro is louder than beats. Fix that allready from mix, make sure your beats come from mix louder than intro, only after that apply limiting and make sure youre not limiting too much.
Bassline is quite interesting, sounds like youre taken your bassline through Moulinex soda-maker 
I wonder though, if it is actually so good idea to have it panned to left (and your snare right..) Well, atleast it´s a different idea.
Vocal samples are quite good if muddy at times.
At 3:30 your main attack repeats, to the extent of being mostly just a copy/paste of last hard attack. Also as you lack variation among breaks, I am getting bored 
Time to have a copy/paste of myself (from my FGR (frequently given reviews):
To get better production, try these tricks:
get your favourite set of songs in same genre than your song. Upload them to stereo tracks in your favourite sequencer, along with your tune. Mute all except one, do a comparison session. Analytically compare other tracks to yours. Write notes. You will notice stuff, like frequency-wise some stuff is a bit out of place, bass needs more bottom, more aggressive beats at second half of the song need work and so on. That work sucks, because youre pinpointing your faults. but youre going into right direction!
Then comes the hard part. You know whats wrong, but how to get that in there? Plenty can be done with EQ. Do this: Take one band out of a a EQ, crank Q -value (wideness of the EQ curve, higher it is, smaller area of frequency spectrum is affected) into something like 10, boost with 12-20 dB, and sloooowly sweep around the frequency spectrum, listening the change. You will notice, that around 60-80Hz there is much more trouser-flapping bass. In 250Hz bass sounds boomy. 10kHz snare gets a clicking sound, 12-14kHz hihats get sparkle and so on. When you find what youre looking for, then you can start experimenting with proper EQ settings.
Depending on a instrument and frequency, you can either EQ the whole track or only one particular instrument, again depending what youre aiming to do. Those frequency examples are just generalisations and do not apply to every situation. Listen your ears, if it is right, it is right. (except when its wrong, of course
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Try listening your tune in different loudspeakers and rooms. harrass your friends, mom, music shops with monitor loudspeakers.
What you could also do, is to analytically listen some good songs in similar genre, and steal ideas and production methods from those songs.
read a book about production. Honestly. there are some in every good library. You can actually steal production tips from rock music book and most of that works all well to distorted to hell ass kicking DnB. Thats where I get my review tips
Listen analytically to stuff done by greats at here, they really really work with their beats - they got huge amounts of variation at loops/played beats plus several drum kits in one song. Bassline is not repeating one or two bars but is really complex and full of variation. This is a very difficult stuff to do, because if you are varying too much, youre breaking the song into pieces. It is all about right balance.
WORK YOUR BEATS. Do NOT use CTRL+C / CTRL+V
Cut them into small pieces, build fills, introduce effects, but keep the feeling of the beats same. If you have 3 different versions of same 8-bar loop, cut each of them into 1-bar pieces and play with them like with lego bricks. DnB is very difficult genre to be in with. It works with such a minimal amount of components: Drums, bass, 2 additional instruments, some effects. In such context, you wont get away with copypasting stuff. You NEED to do SOME kind of changes, or listener will get bored (or walk out of the dance floor). Here is some good reading for you about it:
Repetitiveness
Interesting ideas, but some work to do with beats and production, 6/10
This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by GreatFisherCat: 10-09-2005 21:31.
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