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Posted by sterilis on Sep-30-2006 01:41:

Need advice!!!

does this melody sound cheesy? i cant decide!

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Thanks

Posted by erq on Sep-30-2006 01:53:

Hey not bad. I dont really like the bass, maybe thats why it sounds like cheese. I would go for a lower bass and cut the high end. If you have fl6 I would gladly help you out =]

Posted by sterilis on Sep-30-2006 02:05:

i dont use fruity i use cubase. see there are two basses but the sub bass isnt coming through for some reason. ive put lowpass filters and eq'ed it and it still wont sit in the mix.

Posted by David Adams on Sep-30-2006 02:11:

I'm no expert by any means, but I'm really struggling trying to find structure in the melody here. I think there could be more transitions in the progression - as in there needs to be more. It felt like it was stuck a bit at times.

Posted by sterilis on Sep-30-2006 02:20:

its not the main melody just the build up before the breakdown.

Posted by David Adams on Sep-30-2006 02:27:

quote:
Originally posted by dj_kane
its not the main melody just the build up before the breakdown.

Ah, ok..cool... I guess I would have to hear more then...

Posted by sterilis on Sep-30-2006 02:30:

theres something in there sounds cheesy and its driving me mad. ill post up a bigger sample see if any of you can spot it.

Posted by sterilis on Sep-30-2006 02:36:

Frequency

this is from about 30 seconds in.

Posted by Final Call on Sep-30-2006 04:13:

i think its cheezy lol x]

Posted by TaylorR on Sep-30-2006 05:34:

it might be your percussion...it can get better. try experiment with that.

i also noticed an off-beat bassline in there. that might be a part of that cheeziness of which you think the track has. try mess around with different sequences for the bassline. or make a whole new one instead

Posted by LENG on Sep-30-2006 07:42:

hmm... i'll try to give some gap in between the long tail effects there (and they're easily identified, vengeance samples). not sure about cheesy here but i like the bass.

Posted by sterilis on Sep-30-2006 11:09:

just deleted the melody and changed the mid bass to a simple rolling bassline. it was annoying me too much.

thanks though!

Posted by jey on Sep-30-2006 12:33:

quote:
Originally posted by dj_kane
just deleted the melody and changed the mid bass to a simple rolling bassline. it was annoying me too much.

thanks though!

thats the advice i was going to give u, when i come up with a melody i that im not sure is good i spin some vinyl and 9 times outa 10 a start from scratch....

second sample, the bass sounds pretty good....

precussion thats panned left i dont like, kinda clappy sound...

Posted by sterilis on Sep-30-2006 13:45:

quote:
Originally posted by jey
thats the advice i was going to give u, when i come up with a melody i that im not sure is good i spin some vinyl and 9 times outa 10 a start from scratch....

second sample, the bass sounds pretty good....

precussion thats panned left i dont like, kinda clappy sound...

yea dont like percussion either. anyone any ideas on where to place the closed hats on the piano roll and still keep the drive of the track?

Posted by jey on Sep-30-2006 17:28:

quote:
Originally posted by dj_kane
yea dont like percussion either. anyone any ideas on where to place the closed hats on the piano roll and still keep the drive of the track?

if u put some closed hats on every 16th note apart from were the kick hits or where the kick hits if u prefer add some delay, reverb,eq, then pan the hats completly left or right then bring them back until it sounds good in the stereo field, id usually hav them lower in volume than open hats, velocity can do wonders to...