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Taubheit - Going Back (Not Mastered, Work in Progress)
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zetor
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Posted : Jul 15, 2016 03:28:05
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basefree
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Posted : Jul 17, 2016 01:08
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Hi! Here are some thoughts I had while listening to your track:
-I love the squeegy sounds at the beginning of the track.
-The intro synth that is kind of a syncopated lead is kind of underwhelming. I don't really it really does it's job. It sounds like it's meant to intrigue you and get you more or less excited about what's to come without infringing on the soothing, calming sound of the pad; however, I don't feel it really does that.
- The hihat that follows--the one hitting every 1/1 with the kick--could use a bit more spice to it.
- It sounds a little under-developed.
- I feel that it would sound a lot better if there were something going on with the filter envelope that was a bit more obvious and, at the same time, complemented the kicks adsr.
- The off-beat hi hat is really odd. It sounds like it's been quite obviously sampled and doesn't really have any character to it. You might try putting a light delay on it, automating diffusion with reverb over the course of a groove loop, or something else to make the hihat sound like it was not just dragged in from a sample pack in ableton without any processing.
- The reso effect that comes in is slightly too bright for my liking to you may want to cut a little off the highs and some of the harmonics just a touch...then reduce the volume a bit.
- The main synth around 4:50 could really benefit from some lfo work with pitch/cutoff. It sounds like a patch sound Hallucinogen would use but doesn't have nearly as much character as it could--i'd try to get more creative with the automation. To be honest...most of the leads in this track could benefit from that. It would make the track sound a lot more interactive and engaging than as it currently sounds.
- The percussion that comes in after that is also pretty bland and just sounds like you threw samples together and did some minor eq'ing to get it to sound ok.
- After listening to the kick/bass for a while I feel like there's got to be something done about the front end of the bass or the tail end of the kick. The kick and the first note are overlapping too much and it detracts from the stomp and roll of the kick/bass. I'd start with looking at the kick and see if you can mess around with the decay/release. If that doesn't work, reset it and go to the bass to try and try to make it mess with the filter envelope. Somewhere in there there's a more harmonious low-end.
- The outro is really, really underwhelming as well. It kind of just fizzles out without any real indication that you're "exiting the trance/track." I'm not sure if this was intentional but you could try playing with bringing the intro back toward the intro's theme or you could try taking out one of the synths to make it a bit more hollow (if you were trying to keep it that way intentionally), or, further still, you could try ending on a root more emphatically.
- You could try bringing the snare out slightly as well. I didn't really notice it throughout the whole track (wasn't the focus of the track for me) so I feel it could be brought out just a tad more in the mix.
Overall the sounds are decent, the percussion is technically good--but ultimately not that creative, the mix is quite good (see snare comment), and the composition is ok. (I do really like the break around the 5:50 mark btw). I just kind of feel that this track is begging to be taken in a much more energetic direction with lfo modulation, snare/kick rolls, percussion rolls, stops, more interesting automation on non-lfo automated soounds, etc. You have all the raw materials there but I feel you're not really doing anything with them...which could be a stylistic choice, idk.
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zetor
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Posted : Jul 19, 2016 19:53
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Wow! Thanks for listening to my music and making all those awesome notes.
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basefree
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Posted : Jul 19, 2016 20:37
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On 2016-07-19 19:53, zetor wrote:
Wow! Thanks for listening to my music and making all those awesome notes.
Cheers!
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No worries. Happy to do it.
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