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dont quit producing  it took me a long time to be able to get my music to sound anything like i wanted it to and im still learning so much every time i work on something... the only way you will get better is to just keep trying.
for the song i used all the instruments and effects in reason 2.5 except for the nn-xt and the dr. rex. thats where most of the sounds are from and i did a lot of eq work in reason. then, in cubase i added a few more sounds like during the breakdown when the piano comes in.. that piano sound is a VST called 'mda piano' i think it is free (it sounds pretty good after you put some fx on it like reverb).. then i also used the Albino, Pro 53, and +z3ta (for the wicked bass sound during the breakbeat section is a combination of a subtractor synth in reason with scream 4 distortion, then a +z3ta preset like the 'huge' one but not that one exactly (it would do), then a similar sounding albino synth (maybe detune trance lead), and also a pro-53 (i think megadance)). anyway, you get the idea about all the layers being used to make that 'full' sound.
as for eq, i do most of it when im designing the sound i want so that it will already be right when i get done with all the instruments.. its kind of bad because i will spend a long time just messing with a sound instead of coming up with the music.. but i guess it works ok.. but then after im done with the whole song, i export all the different instrument tracks to their own wave file (24 bit 48khz) and i load all the wave tracks into cubase in a new project and then i add more stuff by messing with the audio files by cutting and pasting things and timestretching stuff and adding more fx like reverb or EQ if i think its necessary (cubase sx has a nice eq imo). so, finally i get everything tweaked how i want it and export that project to one mixed down stereo wave file at 24 bit 44.1khz (i have been working in 24 bit 48khz up until this point) and then i load that file into T-Racks and apply a highpass filter at about 30 - 35 hz... some 2:1 compression, and a little limiting. then i export that dithered to 16 bit and you end up with a nice 16 bit 44.1khz wave file ready to burn on to a cd or encode into mp3.
hope that give u some ideas damie.. and thanks for listening.
-rob
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(maybe one day... ha).
.. yeah i wish i would have submitted on time.. i would have been in the competition and that downloading mess would have never happened because my account would have been deleted already. but anyway.. about the bass... i had a really tough time with it sounding right on certain systems.. it used to be much worse so much that when it changed key that it would totally disapear on my roomates computer speaker system (on my system it sounds fine, but i always listen to my work on lots of other systems to detect problems). so i played around with it a whole lot and its somewhat better now, but like you said its just a really deep bassline and unless you have speakers that can go down that low then it will lose energy like you said. i know the bass will sound very good in a club though, because the energy is there its just in the very low frequencies.
'more interesting' is good 
i'm not a fan of the simple offbeat basslines though.
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Can't fault anything production wise. I didn't think the bass came too low. I think you should've stayed in the comp. Doesn't really matter if you downloaded a song as it was a misunderstanding, and it doesn't affect the judging in any way. I don't think the time you entered matters as well. Again, great stuff
ITs Very good, what Eq did you use? and VSTS?
