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Re: Do you value people's opinions in music promotion section.
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As many people who visit the promotion section are fellow budding producers themselves, they will often feel a need to make technical criticisms, perhaps looking for certain weaknesses, instead of just listening to the tune as an average listener. I must confess that I have done this myself, telling people that their percussion needs more variation, even though i would never focus on the percussion of any normal track and if i did, i'm sure i would find some successful tracks with rather basic percussion.
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I have to admit I do this as well. I think in this situation it becomes easy to "miss the forest for the trees" so to speak. but as a producer you will usually have a more critical ear that the average listener.
I'll tell you that I take my biggest advice on tracks from people who are not producers or not even EDM fans. Usually someone who is totally disconnected from your work and even your music will give a far more objective opinion. My girlfriend is not an EDM fan at all, and she is not afraid to tell me when a track sucks, so I usually know that when she makes an unsolicited comment about a track being good, i think that holds a lot of weight, because she has no preconcieved notions of what things are "supposed" to sound like, she just knows if its good or not in her opinion.
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What if the person giving feedback is less experienced than yourself but states their criticisms with such authority that you then believe they may be right.
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I think you have to take all critcism with a grain of salt. Sometimes it can be a lack of experience, but just as often it can be a matter of personal taste. If you think about it, even with so called "big" tracks from "big" artists, there are always varying opinions on how good it really is.
There are very few tracks I can think of that almost all the people I know generally agree that are good. I can think of a lot of tracks that i have heard that people were lauding and I'd listen to them and think "what's the big deal? This track isnt that great."
As an example, personally I'm a big fan of well produced vocal trance, but ONLY with female vocals. I can't stand a male vocal it just sounds cheesy to me. I think I can count on one hand the number of tracks I have heard over the years with a male vocal that I actually liked. So when Alone Tonight came out, people were talking it up saying how great it was, and it was great production, great arrangement, etc, but TO ME, I didn't like it because it had male vocals. Does that mean the track wasn't quality? No. Does it mean that I personally did not like it? Yes.
At the end of the day it all comes down to what you like, and with that said, some people will think your track is greatness and others will think its absolute shit, even if its produced extremely well.
I don't think that will ever change.
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