First thing that came to mind: sharts of innocence. Other than that the piece is really well written. Good stuff man. Loved your orchestrationing. Hella fly. Dirty trap music or whatever the kids are saying these days. YUMMY 3:00.
Nothing negative/ no crits. Loved it.
hahaha, this had a really awesome experimental vibe to it. Loved those slightly syncopated drums. Gave the track some interesting flow. I might have sidechained those drums to the front of the mix like a jerk... but then again I'm kind of a jerk.
I loved it when dat bass sexily jumped up an octave for like a note @ 1:14. At least I thought it sounded like an octave. Dunno, my ears have aids. All around that bass was sexy. You should pimp it out on the streets. Make hella bank on dat ass.
haha, this was really fun to listen to. I love music that's a tad unpredictable and really salty <3
Drum rhythms were my favorite part of the track :3
Not bad man! Have you ever thought to layer different drum samples to make new fatter drum sounds? That snare sounds like a good start but it's kind of hollow. I'd add a snare that hits some mids, and a snare that has some low end to it. You can always EQ your drums later to help the different layers mesh. For dubstep you really want to make those drums huge. You can phatten them up a bit by using a compressor to boost the signals a tad. Sometimes I have a hard time telling if someone is side chaining but if you aren't already doing it you should learn how to! Side chaining will let you control the levels of one instrument with the levels of another. In other words you can make the bass cut out every time the kick/snare hits to help create space and make the drums pop!
I'm in love with your synth work. You can layer synths much in the same way that I mentioned layering snares. Expand that frequency range :3
One last thing, you'll notice that a lot of professionals will include vocal samples and pads in their tracks. Pads are just atmospheric synths that add character to a track. I didn't really hear and pads in this. The vox will do the same trick. It gives people something to really remember the track by. Even if people forget the name of the track they might say later "hey, that song with the Family Guy sample in it was awesome!"
Keep it up man, I'm loving the sounds :)
Funnily enough, this is my only recent track that I'm too lazy to try and layer stuff. It always end up too messy in the mix (or to my ears). Maybe I'm not doing it properly. Same thing applies to synth layering. As for side chaining, I roughly understand how to do it, and I should probably try it sometime.
For pads, I'd probably slide in a simple pad progression. Putting in vocals or voxes are my weakest link. I just don't know how to work with them.
I had to say, I'm actually in ownership of an original Korg M1. Mod joystick broke off a while ago though so I'm kind of sad about that but other than that it still works just fine! Things a year older than me. I was using some technics monitors back at college that were older than me too but I had to ditch them. I had no room in my girlfriends car. I should have left her instead :c
Also, kudos on another slick track. Old school vibes <3 <3
Lucky dog! Thanks for the review :)
lol, binkers. I usually don't name a track until it's done and if I don't delete unfinished projects I get tons of .rsn files called shit like "kittymeowslurrrrrrr" and "fafafafafafkkjkjj." Hmm, looking over my old documents now I'm getting curious what "FUCK" sounds like...
haha, still posting track stats? It's hella fun to see those. You actually timed yourself too? You always were really anal <3
The track itself is really cool. Really laid back and experimental. Warm as fuck. Those delayed pads took up a surprising amount of space for such a simple sound. My favorite element of the track was the rhythm. Those perc sounds were so perfectly placed. Unpredictable and savvy. SAAAAAAVVVYYYYYYY, I want to have sex with your percussion in this track.
That is all.
Why thanks for the review! I'm not actually nearly anal enough to keep track of the time; FL Studio does it for you! :D
I appreciate your words. Especially the stuff about percussion. :) I think sample selection is one of my stronger qualities in music production.
Thanks again for the review :)
Gah I'm so blahjhgjdhg I need to make more music but I'm not even, like, listening to EDM anymore D: not good enough at guitar yet either... fuck. I know I should just do it but like I'm so musically uncreative when I get into the software I just can't even handle it. I need someone to work with who can provide a creative spark (write melodies or sing or something) but I also don't have any goddamn time to actually do work like that... Grr I guess I'll just languish in music hell a while longer.
Sorry about the rant. I hope the percussion satisfies your every sexual desire.
Damn sex. Loving the super chill vibes. I wish I had a better sound set up at the moment to really enjoy this. I was reading a comment below about the hats. I get what your going for and you nailed it.... but I agree with the reviewer. This track could have some really jazzy hi hat doublets and triplets in there to give it some more dynamic spice. You could then pitch bend said notes and get some idm going on in this dub step. IDM step :p
Just a creative opinion though. Again, you nailed what you were going for. Gratz!
I agree, I kinda rushed the production of the percussion, hence why it's so repetitive and annoying, I was too busy trying to get everything else to work that I completely forgot about making the percs on par with the rest of the song :P
IDMStep sounds like a good idea, I should try something like that in a new song C:
Thanks for the review!
Damn, this reminds me of that late 90's jungle sound. Simple, easy, smooth, jazzy. Sweet rolling bass line. The only thing missy is some nice horn samples. Scoop around for some jazz samples and fill the track with some flare!!
This is freaking awesome man! Im in love with your bass. You have some really juicy sounds in there. Your synths are so much fucking awesome. Marrrrr. If I were to be critical I would have to point out something that I do a lot too. I have a tendency to draw things out for too long/ copy paste a lot. Things get kind of redundant. I saw in a Noisia interview that they like to change things up every 16 bars to keep things interesting. You changed things up eventually but I kind of felt like this song could have been half as long and benefitted.
That snare sounded really thin to me. I'd beef it up with another layer. EQ them a bit? Possibly a little distortion on a snare layer for character. The way it is now it sounds kind of thing. Everything else is mixed perfectly.
I don't hear any background intangibles. Those are sounds and samples that help add atmosphere and character to a track. If you drop some vocal samples in there from say a movie, show, or song other people will have something to really remember your song with. They'll say "hey, I'm gonna listen to that song with that thing from Lord of The Rings." Or something. Not sure if this is your cup of tea but search Moonway Renegade by Noisia. That track has so many background intangibles in it that it makes my head want to explode.
Well, that's all I can say about this. Good stuff man. Peace and whut not :D
haha, sounding sexy man. I'm gonna guess it's a WIP/ possibly never going to be done kind of song. I have so many WIPs that just sit around. I'm gussing it's a work in progress due to the length but I'm really digging the vibes.
I'd probably have some different drum textures. I don't want to drive you crazy or anything, they sound pretty good as is but something about the punch of that bass kick was a little too strong. Maybe work on it to make it a slightly rounder/ bassier sound instead of punching so hard. If this was a dark step track the bass kick would be perfect though.
The snare sounded kind of weak to me. It probably only needs one extra layer in it to really make it fit in. It might have to do with the contrast between that huge punchy bass drum and that thin snare. Dunno, just throwing that idea out there.
I'm loving those melodies with the piano pad but I'm thinking it's long cut off/ delay is muddying things up a little. If it's the same piano that comes in at 46 though it would be a shame to lose the textures it creates by messing with that delay... I might try a "Save As" so you can play with that pad without losing what you got. Maybe duplicate the instrument and keep that melody on one track but change the delay on the initial piano melody. Dunno. That might ruin what you have going on but it's worth a shot if you ask me :p
That bass is sex. Loving it. I might actually raise it a tad/ try fattening it up and widening it. EQ the bass up, make it rounder too :D
Sounding so good man. I love hearing what your up to man. I fall out of the loop a lot so keep me posted!
Hmmm, dunno, I kinda liked the contrast between the kick and the snare. But I'll play around with it.
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