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Posted by DJ_Silverstone1 on Jun-24-2004 22:09:

Silverstone - Sooth

Yo this is one of my new tracks

Sooth

the details are on the page of the tune.....

http://www.internetdj.com/artists.p...=21245&genre=15

gutted about england

Posted by kotus on Jun-25-2004 04:44:

Nice patches in the intro, and your kick and clap sound good. However when the claps drops out, it kind of sounds empty. I would use a hihat there, and more percussion in general. Again good synth arp patch in the break. Hey there's the hihat I was looking for. I guess it's good like that after all because I didn't notice at first how long the track was. About half way thru you should bring in a countermelody, to avoid overexposure of the main melody over time. Well I hope that makes sense, cheers!

Posted by DJ_Silverstone1 on Jun-26-2004 19:17:

great review mate u reviewed my last track, very nice of u

nice to see its so positive!!!!!

iall write a counter melody then!

iam dying to get this track in great form

and if i have to write a counter melody.... i will.
thanks kotus

cheers, silverstone.

Posted by orrebo on Jun-26-2004 19:24:

Link doesn�t work

Hi!

The link doesn�t seem to work.

//Micke

Posted by DJ_Silverstone1 on Jun-26-2004 19:26:

yea they have gone down mate... should be back up soon hopefully.

Posted by DJ_Silverstone1 on Jun-27-2004 08:27:

Link is back up

enjoy!

Posted by DJ_Silverstone1 on Jun-27-2004 09:17:

Anymore listners...?

need lotsa comments :P

Posted by shockwavedj on Jun-27-2004 10:06:

can't listen to, mate! waiting anxiously till it is online

Posted by DJ_Silverstone1 on Jun-30-2004 15:43:

sorry about the hosting problems heres a new link

http://mp3.openmusicsource.net/artists/87448/Sooth.mp3

Posted by nic01445 on Jun-30-2004 23:51:

I'll review for you if you review for me

I think that the Intro would actually be better minus the bass. For some reason, the bass in there just seems a bit cheesy with the pads. A nice chilled piece. Has a bit too many high freqs though; I would add some lower and middle frequencies to give it a bigger sound. Wow, that lead is painful to my ears. Perhaps a lower octave? I agree that a counter melody would certainly help this track. More percussion overall wouldn't hurt either. Nice and relaxing. Not bad at all.

Posted by DJ_Silverstone1 on Jul-01-2004 06:48:

i aint got monitors heh...

played it on my headphones on cd player, yea the lead broke my ears as well , the octaves rite imo its just the high frequencies are too much on the track overall

glad ya liked it.

Posted by alexpea on Jul-01-2004 13:35:

I dislike the clap... It's too loud, imo. I love the way you faded the melody in, but you should have waited with the percs, and instead added a stronger synth to play the mainmelody. Then hit the takeoff-button I think the song is a bit long, but it's quite nice to listen to actually

Posted by shockwavedj on Jul-01-2004 18:51:

I like the way you have remixed it, your contributions are good, the smooth fm-ish synths playing the main melody, the sharp and perc bass... but I agree that the clap should be quieter and less agressive, try to compress it a lot and then put a shorter reverb... sometimes!

But if you polish it a bit, it'll be great !

Posted by DJ_Silverstone1 on Jul-01-2004 19:54:

thanks shockwave, was waiting for ur reply, very positive review from u, really great.

problem is i cant master for shit

so polishing is.....not easy.

not sure if u guys want me to update this anyway.

Posted by shockwavedj on Jul-02-2004 10:16:

some advice can be:
1. try to eq always removing (or attenuating) freqs, not enhancing them. listen to the whole mix and then decide if your sound loose its sound if you remove each freq.
2. try to compress only if a sound has a great dynamic range (when it's cutoff it has a very low level and, as it sweeps, its level increases rapidly -> so you need compress) or if you are looking for a concrete effect: give more attack, soften release... but not only to increase loudness.
3. it's good to increase the stereo image. A good way to start is using stereo samples (for drums, synths, fx). if you don't have them, try to emulate it... how? adding reveb to crash, cymbal, claps; chorus/phaser to clap, snare, ohh...; flanger to chh; delays... but moderately, don't abuse. I use a correlation meter to check my stereo, firstly only with drums... the meter should be range from +1 when the kick hits to +0.5 when chh, ohh are sounding... If the meter is always +1 is bad... always 0 - 0.5 is bad too since the stereo is one more dimension to locate elements, so we are loosing space to put and distinguish them. And with drums a corr. meter less than 0 is a bad new as we have one or more sample with near phase reversal (not good for mono mixdown).
Most of synths can by itself stereo sound, but sometimes its a good idea to add them some kind of fx however... again: don't abuse of them!
4. Once, someone said that is better a compressor per track than a multiband at the end. I'm not so sure relating to trance music, so multiband gives you a extremely detailed control over freqs and dynamics. But i think there are tracks that must be compressed: kick, bass...
5. From every sound try to leave only the essence of it.