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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

[Tea Cup Massacre Epsilon: Descent Into Madness]

So far, I'm liking your intro. Somewhat abrupt introduction of elements, but this is what, super laid back future bass mixed with industrial?

Your piece as a whole is both relaxed and thin sounding up until your second drop which I appreciate. I think you may have too much sub on that actually. I might back it off and apply saturation to get the appearance of loudness you want. As is, it's making my left ear -- for some reason, hurt a bit on that low sustain of the tonic.

Throughout, I like your panning and the different movements. Each is quite pleasantly varied while feeling a part of the same whole. I especially love your last section. Although I feel that the piece could do from about a quarter to a half of the reverb that it currently has, being generous. Compressed, all that verb gets in the way of your delicious bass and also prevents you from compressing more consequently. Electronic genres lend themselves to such compression, and clean production itself will help you bring the emotions you want to the fore.

Last bit reminds me a lot of DOOM. There's a lot you bring to the table in this piece. Really enjoyed it.

Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

[Wertw - Universe Travellers]

Interesting take with our bitcrushed intro. It lends a lot to our -- if slightly abruptly transitioned into -- drop, particularly the appreciation of space.

Very much enjoying what's going on here. I think the flute before 1:39 could both come up in the mix and have a lot more done with it to sound less flat. It's both hiding volume wise and doesn't have a lot of modulation.

At 2:34, you could probably apply a saturator to that violin and modulate the lfo of that base so it's not just the same vibrato rate sounds like.

Beyond that, I'm chilling with you vibing right on about to 3:33. I find myself wanting more of your snare, about 0.5 dB. I find I enjoy the transposed key but want the lead in the right channel to be a bit less shrill.

Mix wise everything is very full and low mid heavy sounds like -- might be suffering minorly from reverb-itis. Try turning down the reverb wets particularly on any sustained notes, bass synths, transitions, and cymbals. Rather, I would apply on cymbals a slapback delay at a slightly lower volume and bring the cymbals themselves up in the mix. Cleaner is always better!

Anyway, great work. Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

[Sentimentality]

I like what you've done with your drum samples. I would have appreciated just a bit less reverb on the kick, possibly everywhere. The mix throughout sounds just a little muffled with all of it.

On the lead, it sounds just a bit flat to me somehow. Maybe vibrato would help and some more modulation

Throughout, your snare tends to hide a bit in the mix -- the lead is clearly audible which is good, but the drums have to do extra work to cut through. It may help you to try applying KSHMR Essentials Kick on your percussion instruments for transients. I fell in love with the free version recently and used it on all of my percussion for my latest track.

Your last snare in particular would really benefit I think from tape saturation and transient shaping. As is it sounds just a little laying there. I would have liked if that drop lasted just a little bit longer.

All in all I love the idea of this song, and I think it's really cool you specifically learned a new technique to create it. Nice work.

Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

[Desert Fever]

This feels like a mix of Japanese, Chinese, and near east... or... middle east. With some Greek when you hit that vocal solo.

Great film score type stuff.

Any critique I would have -- our section at 3:00 or so, I'm hearing a lot of reverb on our cinematic low percussion, and it isn't sticking out above or sitting alongside the melodic and rhythmic elements. It's behind it. The track as a whole sounds quite tinny here.

The sub hit before 4:20 could probably sound better if tuned to the tonic.

5:01 very much reminds of Indiana Jones Egypt. I like your percussion here. I want more of that tambourine, or less of the hand drums which come in there. Now that said, you've done an absolutely FANTASTIC arrangement here, wonderfully authentic. Wanting just a tad more of those chants and about 0.2 dB more strings, with a more pronounced stacatto and cleanliness between notes. That's hard to manage with synths, of course. I'm very impressed you've made such a journey in so little time!

7:15 we have come through great pain and confusion. I want just a bit more of that odd moaning in the right channel. Now it sounds like we've gone somewhere like Petra. At 8:06 I want a bit more of the lead you have in the right channel. I continue wanting more of it at least up to 8:33, 0.5 dB perhaps, even. Or bring the accompaniment down, if desired. 9:01, I feel it would sound much better if soaring over.

All this said, gorgeous piece. I've thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through despite long length. I have a short attention span. That's a very high compliment. Fantastic work.

Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

VociferousMusic responds:

Thank you very much for the critism and the minor things you suggested for improvement!

I'm very surprised you actually related my soundtrack to the far east (Chinese, Japanese), since I have not any instruments used being typical for these cultures, and at the end, I did not intent to have it sound like that, haha. :P

The vocal solo is meant to be indian and not greek, but you were close about guessing. :)