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[Inktober #31 - Credits Roll]

It's so rare to find someone who actually records doubles clean. Olskool asf.

You know, I had an epiphany, you could try some distortion on your vocals and a light chorus. Bring out just a little bit of 5Khz and they would shine nicely.

Also big thank for the shoutout <3

Cyberdevil responds:

Hehe, I know no other way to prove I can truly do these dues, shoot the hoops, tis the school I'm schooled into, where way back feuds would brew, doo ba di dopp shoop-de-do!

You know I actually just tried some basic distortion on my most recent two. :) No choruses of equal caliber there though, that sounds even better, all the more contrast...

And thanks for that amazing instrumental earlier on too! :) Definitely turned into the best year so far; this here's the bar! Hope we can try something next year too!

[Maze]

Funky and relaxed. Feels like it's lacking just a bit in the center, but I do like the stereoplay going on here. Great work :)

[Bob]

Slick videogame noises. It do bang

Could use just a little bit less reverb so it sounds cleaner but otherwise zero complaints

[/ Galaxies \]

This reminds me of a lot of the intros I've heard to older synthwave soundtracks. I think it could benefit from having more variation in the bass line -- starting with those 8th notes that come in, keep them the same at first, then practice moving the bass note to give the chord a different color. It'll come to you. There are tons of tutorials on youtube to check out for writing synthwave and techno. Good luck!

[/ Pause \]

This sounds like it's mostly made of loops and whole notes. Now, you could do something interesting with that if you had some kind of bass line going on.

[Luka X Lunar - Fifth burns up]

Поставлю 2 балла потому что русский любимый язык, хотя аудио не понимаю <3

[Beast - (Cyberdevil & Quarl)]

Cyberdevil always blows my mind with his rhymes. This is something interesting. It's like angry video games creeping me out. I'd like to hear Cd compressed some more, maybe with some stereo widened doubles. But other than that, total klass.

Quarl responds:

Thanks love, I have zero experience mixing vocals. I hope he didn't mind some of my editing. I muted a couple of auxillary recordings that were mad straight edge but he never complained about it. I had mentioned something not long ago to him about having a hang over, heard a "stay sober" adlib and was like "let's not get all political here."

:P

[Inktober #6 - Listerine]

@Quarl, I'm alive!

I just saw this, and I love it. If you send me the acapella I'll shoot you back a mixed version <3

Cyberdevil responds:

Eyy you're back! :D And alive!!! That'd be awesome, PM soon as I get back home...

And glad you enjoyed it!

[#26 - Madness, Halloween, Among Us]

Came here for SevenSeize <3

[NS Virtual Players]

Has a lot of interesting elements, a driving DnB beat, but most of these elements don't really seem to come together. I think if you watched a couple videos on song structure, and wrote out the most complex, heavy 4 to 8 bars of your song you would have a better idea of where you were going with this piece.

My process song-writing is this. I have 4 bars. I write those up until it sounds nice and full with all elements of the song present, bass, drums, lead, pads or w/e on the sides. Then I copy that into 8 bars, keep the ending I had for bar 4 on bar 8, and then rewrite bar 4 so that it flows naturally into bar 5. You may have to loop the playback for this process.

Then I pick a song structure I like and write a transition bar into the "drop" I just made.

The song structure I've been studying is 8 bar intro -- percussion coming in on bar 5. Then straight into drop. Then 16 bars of verse, in which I incorporate little hints at the drop and may drop out percussion or some other elements, bringing them back half in. I may also have a 2 bar break between verse and drop. Really depends.

Then I repeat the drop twice, changing bar 8 of the drop on the first or 2nd repetition. Again depends on the drop and the flow.

Then I have another verse for 16 bars. May include another 2 bar drop out rest and pickup. Then the final chorus.

The main thing with transitions is trying to take away 2 elements, then add or change two others, so that it doesn't sound like you're just having to pile the same thing on over and over again.

All that said though, this is a great start. With just a little bit of study, I think you have the makings to put out some really compelling music, especially with the tools you have.

Also, be sure to follow bedroom producer's blog for some great free VSTs and discounts. You can currently get KSHMR Essentials Kick, which is a great PRO grade percussion all in one processor. Highly recommend it.

Thanks for the PM!

1gryone responds:

Thanks for your advice bro. I am working to become better, better and better. Thanks for you feedback