Hi David,

I don't know the original emo you've remixed here, but it sounds pretty sweet with a beat.

The percs need to be beefed up a little - and I'm not a huge fan of the delay on the snare.

Good effort here, but overall sounds a bit thin.

Hope you keep at it - I'd love to hear the finished product, especially with vocals.

Keep well,
Trev

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Thanks for the review!

I'm kinda agreeing with you on the snare/percs. Good advice, thanks

Sounds pretty good man. I think my brother and his annoying "band" play this song all the time. I'll hafta wait till I hear some lyrics to make sure. Very nice and chill atmosphere tho. I think that delay has either gotta go or be turned down quite a bit. I LOOOOOOOOOVE the bass that comes in a little before 3:00, sounds perfect. I'd also suggest using a different piano, that ones just reaks of mdapiano.

Not bad by any means man, I'm really enjoying this. Love to hear what you do with the vocals.

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good job man, and i'm in full agreement to highlight the percs a lil bit more. its really weird hearing the song mixed like this, as i'm a huge fan of this band and music of the like (in fact im going to see them in st. louis on nov 7), but you did well. If you like mixin like that you should check out thrice.net. Its another band of the same sort and they're having a remake contest for their new cds first single, "Image of the Invisible." scroll down the page some and check it out if you want, they're accepting any type of remake.

Edit: direct link to contest

Last edited by Manveru on Oct-26-2005 at 06:46

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Originally posted by tylerc Sounds pretty good man. I think my brother and his annoying "band" play this song all the time. I'll hafta wait till I hear some lyrics to make sure. Very nice and chill atmosphere tho. I think that delay has either gotta go or be turned down quite a bit. I LOOOOOOOOOVE the bass that comes in a little before 3:00, sounds perfect. I'd also suggest using a different piano, that ones just reaks of mdapiano. Not bad by any means man, I'm really enjoying this. Love to hear what you do with the vocals.

Thanks for the critique, I really appreciate it. The song is pretty recognizable by its lyrics... so if you heard it I'm sure you'd know what song it is. It starts out "Taking on, seven years that holy ghost had left alone...." but his voice is kinda strange.

I'm glad you enjoy the bassline! I had a different one on there but I really wasn't feeling it... made some tweaks and it ended up like that and I was happy with it. And lol on the mdapiano thing.... good ear. I'll keep that in mind for my next production.

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Originally posted by Manveru good job man, and i'm in full agreement to highlight the percs a lil bit more. its really weird hearing the song mixed like this, as i'm a huge fan of this band and music of the like (in fact im going to see them in st. louis on nov 7), but you did well. If you like mixin like that you should check out thrice.net. Its another band of the same sort and they're having a remake contest for their new cds first single, "Image of the Invisible." scroll down the page some and check it out if you want, they're accepting any type of remake.

Thanks! I'm glad you like it! I will have to check that other band as well as their contest. I agree it's weird hearing the song mixed like this, and I wasn't sure if it was going to work...lol. But it seemed to turn out okay. I'm surprised I haven't gotten flamed more. This will probably happen if I post a vocal version, lol.

I'm having trouble with adding vocals because there is guitar playing throughout the whole thing and it's slightly off-beat so it clashes with my production. I've managed to EQ some of it out, but meh...we'll see. I was going to try using a vocoder but I'm not sure of a good one or how exactly I should do it.


Thanks for the interest guys!

i really like this. Very chilled. Sounds really Balearic, like a real Ibiza anthem. Definately impressed with this. Just like to know what software/hardware your using?

i actually think a vocal version would be cool. move the delay from the snare to the vocals and see what happens. then again i love cove reber's (the singer) voice, so i guess im mildly biased already.

great track! don't know the original but this has a lot of emo in it
and i also dont like your clap & snare, they sound to heavy imo.
And variate your perc!

good job !

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Originally posted by dj_kane i really like this. Very chilled. Sounds really Balearic, like a real Ibiza anthem. Definately impressed with this. Just like to know what software/hardware your using?

Thank you very much!

I used FL Studio v4.0.

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i actually think a vocal version would be cool. move the delay from the snare to the vocals and see what happens. then again i love cove reber's (the singer) voice, so i guess im mildly biased already.

Actually I did try putting the delay on the vocals. It was kinda catastrophic. I think that I could do some cool layering with it though, to make it more like he's singing a "round". Something like this (since you know the original):

Only push the way off to fight you----------------------Now I'm
-------------------------------Only push the way off to fight you

Sorry I'm sorry I'm not sure----------------Getting
------------------------Sorry I'm sorry I'm not sure

Off my chest---------The story ends
---------Off my chest


If that makes sense to you

But the problem is that damn guitar in the background. I wish I had an acapella!

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Originally posted by teknasia great track! don't know the original but this has a lot of emo in it and i also dont like your clap & snare, they sound to heavy imo. And variate your perc! good job !

Thank you very much! I agree the percussion is lacking in this production, I will work on this in my next one. The snare/clap is horrid listening back to it.

Thanks for the advice

As someone said, the percs are kinda weak.. In a progressive track, the kick is normally much more powerful But the guitar-melody is beautiful!! I'm liking it alot. Wow, the bassline appeared late Hmm.. it clips..

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