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Have I Finally Made My First Un-Muddy, Good Bassline???
Spent the last few days fixing up this bassline and I'm wanting to know if it generally sounds good.
The main thing I've worked on here is to make sure that I avoid any muddiness. So, have I done a good job of it??
Please give some feedback, and if you like what you hear, give my Facebook page that I started yesterday a "like."
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Micha...415346861810785
Cheers,
MH
Listening on little pc speakers this sounds real nice to me. The kicks you choose I still don't like but that's personal preference. I think I read you saying you were looking into other sample packs. Those Vengeance ones for me are too plastic bucket being hit sounding.
Looks like your on your way to becomming a decent producer, afterall your'e pretty determined it seems.
Sounds good man!
yea getting there with the bassline. Im the same as Richard Butler with the kick, try another sample
I think the bassline sounded nice but it seems the mids were cut out too much. If you increase it a little bit, it would bring back the fullness of the bass. It would also compliment the kick a lot more.
Thanks to all the replies here so far guys, I'll definitely try out some of these ideas.
Cheers 
yep, sounds clean and decent. i like the 'groove' of the track, sounds fluent and btw i don't have a problem with the kick
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| Originally posted by Cedric K. yep, sounds clean and decent. i like the 'groove' of the track, sounds fluent and btw i don't have a problem with the kick |
Very Tyas-ie indeed.
Not bad at all, you getting there lol - now looks like you took care of around 2% of your track so 98% left and I would like to see where you going with this track after at least 10% - all the best man.
Darek
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| Originally posted by TranceLover007 Not bad at all, you getting there lol - now looks like you took care of around 2% of your track so 98% left and I would like to see where you going with this track after at least 10% - all the best man. Darek |
Yeah bassline is fine. Kick is still a little boomy though. Did you ever check out figuring out how to mess with the envelope of your kick sample? You can shorten the kick by shortening the sustain, but play around with it... may not be just the kick drum sample. But it just boils down to a matter of taste, seems fine. However, if you listen to things like FSOE and Daniel Kandi the kick is more powerful and short.
I know it's just supposed to demonstrate the bassline, but it does get quite repetitive. Automating filters and delay can have awesome effects for this kind of bassline though.
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| Originally posted by Evolve140 Yeah bassline is fine. Kick is still a little boomy though. Did you ever check out figuring out how to mess with the envelope of your kick sample? You can shorten the kick by shortening the sustain, but play around with it... may not be just the kick drum sample. But it just boils down to a matter of taste, seems fine. However, if you listen to things like FSOE and Daniel Kandi the kick is more powerful and short. I know it's just supposed to demonstrate the bassline, but it does get quite repetitive. Automating filters and delay can have awesome effects for this kind of bassline though. |
No problem. What I would do is create a solid chord progression. Then, take that bassline you've developed and loop an 8 bar with the bassline playing the bass note of each chord in the progression. Then, choose a piano or polyphonic instrument that can play your chords fully, to give you an idea of the melodic and harmonic aspects of the progression you've selected, then you can have a foundation to write melody and figure out where a hook might lay, and where your melodic counter point exists. Good trance tracks have excellent melody and counter point.
what you have now is basically just production without real music - it never hurts to have a good mixdown and good instruments, although, it's actually easier to produce well than it is to write good songs. the musicality of your track will depend more on the actual chord progression, melody and counter point. you may not be able to play it in a club (hypothetically, a track that isn't well produced but has musical qualities - production seems to be way easier than quality song writing, there are tons of over produced tracks lacking musicality played out in clubs everywhere) but at least it has musical components. don't forget, great melodies are forged through the rhythm and timing of the composition just as they are with note selection, so keep that in mind for your overall groove once you do get to that point.
i won't rant on, just work hard unabated, and maybe even without feedback for a couple weeks, to let your own mechanisms go to work. you must develop musical problem solving skills internally, which i'm sure you're trying to do, but try to do your own thing and see how well that goes. if you hit a brick wall, there's always the forum.
cheeeyas matey
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| Originally posted by Evolve140 No problem. What I would do is create a solid chord progression. Then, take that bassline you've developed and loop an 8 bar with the bassline playing the bass note of each chord in the progression. Then, choose a piano or polyphonic instrument that can play your chords fully, to give you an idea of the melodic and harmonic aspects of the progression you've selected, then you can have a foundation to write melody and figure out where a hook might lay, and where your melodic counter point exists. Good trance tracks have excellent melody and counter point. what you have now is basically just production without real music - it never hurts to have a good mixdown and good instruments, although, it's actually easier to produce well than it is to write good songs. the musicality of your track will depend more on the actual chord progression, melody and counter point. you may not be able to play it in a club (hypothetically, a track that isn't well produced but has musical qualities - production seems to be way easier than quality song writing, there are tons of over produced tracks lacking musicality played out in clubs everywhere) but at least it has musical components. don't forget, great melodies are forged through the rhythm and timing of the composition just as they are with note selection, so keep that in mind for your overall groove once you do get to that point. i won't rant on, just work hard unabated, and maybe even without feedback for a couple weeks, to let your own mechanisms go to work. you must develop musical problem solving skills internally, which i'm sure you're trying to do, but try to do your own thing and see how well that goes. if you hit a brick wall, there's always the forum. cheeeyas matey |
what is this? just upload to SC and embed mang
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| Originally posted by Evolve140 what is this? just upload to SC and embed mang |
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