Originally posted by Trancelover03591
I am really impressed by all of the excellent progressive house productions lately on TA. Haven't seriously worked on a prog track in a while and decided to go that direction. Still just a rough draft at this point and would appreciate any guidance:
This is not really my genre, but I have to admit there's some catchy motions. I see a lot of potential there. If you construct it the right way it'd might be successful.
The thing with this type of edm is that there isn't much going on in terms of "musicality"...the focus is entirely on the beats so that's why you should use wisely those few elements you got.
Some minimal and prog house tracks are quite exemplificative on the matter.
Jul-14-2013 06:41
Storyteller
Supreme tracneaddict
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: The Netherlands
quote:
Originally posted by kevin shawn
Damn, some really good music in here! Worked on this a bit last week, not sure if it will get finished.
It is nice and cleanly mixed, but it just doesn't excite me . It's all there except for the anticipation/tension I'd love to hear.
quote:
Originally posted by Trancelover03591
I am really impressed by all of the excellent progressive house productions lately on TA. Haven't seriously worked on a prog track in a while and decided to go that direction. Still just a rough draft at this point and would appreciate any guidance:
The bass going on after the break is awesome. I do not like it going up though. I'd just build a complete track around the 0:37 part I guess .
Originally posted by Trancelover03591
I am really impressed by all of the excellent progressive house productions lately on TA. Haven't seriously worked on a prog track in a while and decided to go that direction. Still just a rough draft at this point and would appreciate any guidance:
like the heaviness when it drops, not sure about the melody
Originally posted by evo8
wheres the bass?? your missing a ton of low end
No need for more bass on such type of track. It would add too much heaviness, and that's completely the opposite of my goal. I'd suggest you checking out some early 2000 moogwai tracks as "underground subway" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZkXGw3ag7s
It hardly has any low end.
Jul-15-2013 21:22
chris marsh
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2012
Location: london
quote:
Originally posted by TranceElevation
No need for more bass on such type of track. It would add too much heaviness, and that's completely the opposite of my goal. I'd suggest you checking out some early 2000 moogwai tracks as "underground subway" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZkXGw3ag7s
It hardly has any low end.
Ok so i like the feel of this track as i like the classic trance sound!
However i totally agree with that it needs sub. I mean if your ultimate goal is to get stuff played out like most of us (me included) then people will badly miss that low end
compared to that example track you gave - i agree you have a similar amount of bass but do you really want to make a tune that sounds that old skool, or do you want an old skool feel with more modern productions values?
Lets face it though modern production values are very good and i think, pretty difficult to achieve for the most part
I know that you said this is a rough idea, and id like to hear a later version - but if you compare your track to your example track you could do with more wet effects, a wider stereo spread overall and fx/whoosehs etc. And i also feel that you could do with more synth layers
This is just my opinion of course but i am only trying to help and be constructive
Originally posted by Trancelover03591
I am really impressed by all of the excellent progressive house productions lately on TA. Haven't seriously worked on a prog track in a while and decided to go that direction. Still just a rough draft at this point and would appreciate any guidance:
nice!
i would personally prefer if yo got rid of the sustained bass note for the build up
when the bass kicks in again its banging! Nice full sounding mix and wide tops!
i think the square wave melody would work better if it was simpler
id personally like more reverb on the pad in the background
Originally posted by Storyteller
Thanks for all the feedback guys. I'll try and weigh it in wherever applicable.
I'd kill to make this type of music <3
well thats a big compliment, especially from someones whos put out tunes on the labels that you have - cheers
still got some work to do on it - i hope it will get put out by someone just gor to do a bit of research into appropriate uk garage etc labels to send to