Worth a finish?

Peak-time retake on the classic.

Comments or ideas on where to take it welcome.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/oz096k

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Hi Egdehill,

Loving this, how long you been producing?

Greg

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Originally posted by gregmuzza Hi Egdehill, Loving this, how long you been producing? Greg

On and off for a few years. Never anything seriously though. Just as and when I get time between work/uni.

Any suggestions on where to take it?

Keep it simple straight forward trancer? Or maybe go in another flow?

Edit - Thank you by the way!

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Nothing lasts, nothing lasts, everything is changing into something else. Nothing is wrong, nothing is wrong, everything is on track...

You know, William Blake said... uh, nothing is lost. Nothing is lost and I... I really believe that, we only move on...

Well, first thing I'd at the stage your at is move some of those notes so it wasn't a remix anymore but an orignal track ;-)

More top end around 8000htz on your lead synth (what have you made this on?) and cut everything below 300ktz, this will sound much tastier!

A Few more layers percussion and it's getting somewhere cool!

too much trebble on your sfx thing ;-) maybe shelf everything above 17,000htz off so it's not so harsh on the ear.

Sounds cool tho dood, could be even sweeter!

Greg

Thanks!

I'll look into it, just a mess around thing!

Lead is synth1, as is the bass and pad.

The acid lead is a TS404.

I'll fix that effects thing. It's way too loud in the mix, but I got bored lol.

Thanks for your pointers! Any tunes you got I can check?

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Nothing lasts, nothing lasts, everything is changing into something else. Nothing is wrong, nothing is wrong, everything is on track...

You know, William Blake said... uh, nothing is lost. Nothing is lost and I... I really believe that, we only move on...

sure, check this out, this is one of mine from ages ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C73wxmuKang

Greg

Haha, you git. I have bought some of your tunes!

I feel privileged to have a pro review my track!

Well I can't compete or offer any tips to you but nice tracks anyway!

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Nothing lasts, nothing lasts, everything is changing into something else. Nothing is wrong, nothing is wrong, everything is on track...

You know, William Blake said... uh, nothing is lost. Nothing is lost and I... I really believe that, we only move on...

hey man,

hehe, sorry, just got sent that link so i posted it you, whispers was a big track for me.

We have a new Electrovoya coming out in a week or so, keep an eye out dood.

If you want anymore tips or anything i might be able to help with, give me a shout!

Greg

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Originally posted by gregmuzza hey man, hehe, sorry, just got sent that link so i posted it you, whispers was a big track for me. We have a new Electrovoya coming out in a week or so, keep an eye out dood. If you want anymore tips or anything i might be able to help with, give me a shout! Greg

Will do man, means a lot.

Any pointers on compression?

At the moment I simply use a fast attack compressor on certain channels to catch peaks that are eating my headroom.

People mention slow attack compression, where would this be used? I've tried it but can't seem to figure it out!

What's your's typical mix down technique?

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Nothing lasts, nothing lasts, everything is changing into something else. Nothing is wrong, nothing is wrong, everything is on track...

You know, William Blake said... uh, nothing is lost. Nothing is lost and I... I really believe that, we only move on...

I dont usually use long attack compression, not much anyway, I only really use the attach to create punch. Compression is a nightmare, everyone has their own idea of how it should be used, and in my opinion, it's used to much these days, everyone is competing for their track to be the loudest, and man, sometimes it just gets too much, even the breakdowns are loud! AGH!

But that said compression is very important if your making dance music especially. You need to think about using compressors for lots of reasons, not just keeping peaks down. Most of the time i use no attack at all. But the release is important. It's too much to explain on here im afraid.

As for mixdown. Some low ratio rms compression on your output strip, and a mulitband eq to really get the general eq right, then bounce it down and use a brick wall limiter in a wave editor like soundforge. Easy peasy. You can go mental on mastering, it will drive you mad and spiol the fun, hehe.

Greg

Much appreciated.

Thanks again, look forward to your next release!

What's your monitoring set up like btw?

I don't like spending money on gear because I know I'll never see a return on it and right now I got more important things to buy!

None the less, I bought some second hand Fostex PM1's last year and love them. However I need a soundcard, what you running?

All my other gear is ITB (and cheapo free shit too haha!).

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Nothing lasts, nothing lasts, everything is changing into something else. Nothing is wrong, nothing is wrong, everything is on track...

You know, William Blake said... uh, nothing is lost. Nothing is lost and I... I really believe that, we only move on...

you dont need to spend a fortune, my entire setup is prolly less that £1000, I used Alessis m1 active monitors and and old version of logic audio (5.1) on a beat up old pc thats prolly 8 years old!! And i can get a reasonable sound out of all that. Oh and a DMX 6fire soundcard. Could prolly pick up one of them cheap these days.

email me on [email protected] if you wanna keep chatting

Peace out, I'm off to the pub!