Seriously m8, you say you have only been doing this for a few weeks but you have already come up with 16 tracks to put on an album ?

Try spending the time you have spend on those 16 tracks on ONE track and concentrate on sound design, arrangement, levels etc..., it's better to have one good song than a load of crap ones.

Just got a bit excited with some new software, sorry!

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Originally posted by Newman NewX Just got a bit excited with some new software, sorry!

Lol, i know how it is i just got reason 4 and i made like 12 shitty trance tunes in the first few days, just started working on a new one that i am taking some time with.

Anyways, feedback. The bass is to loud, infact the entire mix is to loud and sounds distorted. The song is much to repetitive. the same lead over and over again. You just got to take some time on a song. I am still a beginner to production but one thing that has helped me tremendously is to take one of my favorite songs and use the same structure but different synth sounds and melodies to create a track. Also, take some time to tweak your synths learn how to use them step beyond the presets. learn some basic music theory learn what notes sound well together write some melodies more complicated than 4 repeating notes. Lastly, have fun producing.

Ps. What new software is it that you just got?

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Originally posted by pwnage1 Lol, i know how it is i just got reason 4 and i made like 12 shitty trance tunes in the first few days

I know how that goes. I've had Reason for about four years, since it was version 2.5. I made plenty of crappy tracks in that time. Only recently have I started to make whole tracks that I think are worth showing on TA.

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I am still a beginner to production but one thing that has helped me tremendously is to take one of my favorite songs and use the same structure but different synth sounds and melodies to create a track.

Yeah, one of the best things you can do when you're learning to produce is to teach yourself the "structure" of dance music. Just figuring out how to arrange everything and keep the listener interested through the course of six to ten minutes is a task in itself.

I've found that two of the keys to getting a more "professional" sound are to make your sounds "fit" together (remove clashing frequencies and increase headroom) by using EQ, and to have the right amount of reverb and stereo panning on each element of your track. Tracks made by inexperienced producers tend to be really mono, have lots of clashing frequencies, and use either too much or too little reverb.

I don't think I have a "pro" sound quite yet, but I'm pretty sure that I know how to get there. Just have to keep working...

I think your stuff is really professional actually, really mellow and listenable, a pure composition, blimey even anounce it as in c# minor or something like that, I think you deserve more credit than someone like 'Britney Spears' or some crappy pop idol like that...

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Originally posted by pwnage1 Ps. What new software is it that you just got?

Reason 3 and Cubase SX, not learnt how to use Cubase yet, I hope once I get the hang of sequencing properly I can get some proper structure, at the moment I am just using some recording software and manually sequencing the instruments together, which is not 'pro' at all. A couple of my mates paid for a blank CD for me to copy my album onto and they said they quite enjoyed it, but I need a lot of practice and practice makes perfect so they say so in a few years who knows. But my album at the moment is definately not worth more than a blank CD