This is DJRYAN's newest Electro tracked titled Electronik.
It has a variety of components to make a loud and energetic
track. With the bass, and riff complimenting each other,
Electronik showcases some new techniques as well as
structure. Concentrating on buildups and a danceable
bass, Electronik certainly is the next step in
DJRYAN's music production.

Last edited by DJRYAN™ on May-11-2011 at 05:36

You definitely need to work on your mixes. The track is really muffled, mudd and over compressed, that said you're making progress.

The clap sample is really bad IMO. I'd change it, and your kick sounds a bit.. cardboard. You need to cut some of the frequencies around 500hz out of there.

The supersawy synth is meeeggggga tinny, and most of the synths are really cheesy and lack character, and really presetty.

There are some good ideas in here but it needs lots of work, especially in sound design.

The bass is kind of neat though.

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Originally posted by Seandroid You definitely need to work on your mixes. The track is really muffled, mudd and over compressed, that said you're making progress. The clap sample is really bad IMO. I'd change it, and your kick sounds a bit.. cardboard. You need to cut some of the frequencies around 500hz out of there. The supersawy synth is meeeggggga tinny, and most of the synths are really cheesy and lack character, and really presetty. There are some good ideas in here but it needs lots of work, especially in sound design. The bass is kind of neat though.

Hey Sean, thanks for taking the few minutes to listen and comment. On your advice, I got back into Reason, put the equalizer to all tracks, changed some of the frequencies, and adjusted some of the compression settings. I also noticed for the first time really, that I was ripping my Reason Production @ 44.1hz and 16bit. but it wasn't sounding like how it was IN Reason. So I also, up'd it to 192,000hz and changed the bit depth from to 24bit. It made it into quite a large file but I'm guessing it perserved the quality of the sounds better. I think this version is a whole lot better...


however... its still uploading.. 170mb for 5:10 track. Wow! I'll post it up after its finished uploading..

I also got rid of the clap and de-muddy'd it some. Made a major difference I think.

Oh! and I tweaked that "neat bass" it's more refined and fits a little better. =)

Can't wait for you to hear it.

Okay here's the edited version. I went ahead and converted it to a Mp3 but exported from Reason using the best possible quality. 170mb down to right around 7 but its still crystal clear- I think. Other than that, some changes per your suggestion. Hollar back and let me know if you hear anything else.

Ok, no good news here, this sounds like a "my first sony in a cardbox box"
there is some plonky mid lows, no low, no pressure,very nasal highs.

musicwise it sounds like a musicbox, no feel, swing or groove to be heard.

All beginning is difficult, what are u monitoring on? getting the mix right is one thing, but soundchoice and groove /interest is another where u need to work on.

Would suggest to build the drums first, be happy with hem work on bass and then layer the leads, pay attention to levels, EQ reverb and patch choice. you will hear that at a certain moment things will come together and will start sounding a lot more interesting.
after that you can always change the patterns a bit, apply some groove and take it from there. curious what oyu can make of a rework

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Last edited by Raphie on May-11-2011 at 19:33