Here's the latest track I'm working on. It's a darker melodic trance track.

Here's the track Brain Child - Lost in blue:
http://www.born.se/music/BrainChild-Lost_in_blue.mp3

I'd appreciate any comments!

Noone want to take a listen to it?

downloading it now mate

hey Drik,

Just listened to the track. My compliments for the great beginning with the percussions. That has a nice drive.

Too bad that as soon as you start working on the melodies that the track changes pretty much. I love the parts between melodies the most.

I do think you have recorded the track a bit too loud and the kick might be a bit too powerful.

Overall it is a decent tune but you need to work on the direction you want to go with your track.

cheers,

Nomen Nescio

ok here are my 2 cents;

nice warm intro
- nice pads, but you give away too much of your themes too quickly: spoils the build up of tension
- I like the breakbeat-ish feel to the intro
- guitars? pianos? : IMO this is not dark but dreamy.
- you do have some nice themes and counter themes , but thery are not as a whole clearly structured and composed: no clear "lead", counter parts etc. Everything is sort of going on at the same time. Again this takes away tension. In potential if you make your breaks more distinctive from the rest of the track it would lively up the whole thing.
- nice bass sound but a bit to upfront
- I think you can use a bit EQ and more compression on espc. your percusion, bass and rhythm tracks. try grouping percussion tracks together and compressing them as a group.
- a lot of the melodic sounds are fighting for the same frequency range: this is killing because it makse your track blurry and the seperate lines don't come out. Try to let each sound live in its own frequency range.

What do you use as software/hardware?

Try to do less in this track as opossed to more: it wil add to the strength (and make it darker, but that is my personla taste) of the track.

good work!

BB

Hmm.. interesting pointers there, I'll check it out..

I had another theme to it before the choirs (they pretty much added a second melodic part), maybe they are conflicting with eachother?

Im gonna put this stuff on ice.. I'm ordering a Korg electribe SX1 for the drum stuff, cant be using software plugs for that

Also there will be vocals added to the track, so I'm probably going to end up remixing the track again to avoid conflicts.

I use 1 Access Virus C, 1 Virus B, 1 Nord Lead 3 and a powercore dsp card for the effects/mastering/eq stuff.

Cubase SX3 for recording and arrangement. Stulys RMX for breakbeats.

Interesting. Sounds like that melodic goa that Infected Mushroom and Astrix are coming out with lately. Not really dark, but the heavier bassline, snare work, and acidy effects in the intro give it the goa style.

The supersaw kind of detracts from the feel, though. It'd be cool to make it something a bit more acid-like.

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