My newest track for your enjoyment. Comments are welcome! Thanks!



FIXED VERSION

djoxygen - The Afterlife [OLD VERSION] (left click)

Last edited by djoxygen on Feb-11-2006 at 06:24

There's no need to make it 320kbps for this forum. 160kbps or 192kbps is fine. Gonna take a listen to the track right now...

I really like the violin sounds. I think if you changed the chords a little bit more as the song progressed it might add some more energy for the buildup. At 2:45 when you cut out everything, I don't know why but I just don't really like it. Some of your percussion elements I feel are a little too low. I'll give a better feedback later because I actually have to go to class, but as of 4:30 mins the track sounds pretty decent. I just don't feel like there's enough energy in the track. It has a really nice minimal approach to it though. Keep up the good work. I guess it's just not really my type of style.

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Thanks. I`ll work on it some more.

yeah, keep working on it.
the melody felt a bit random at times, otherwise it's pretty sharp stuff

Strings are full and rich. I'm hearing some real musical knowledge exhibited here.

I like the percussion sample at 1:36.

I can't help but feel that the lead is a bit too loud. It's drowning out the percussion.

It may just be my headphones (doubtful, they preserve sound quality really well for headphones), but I'm not feeling the bass line during the chorus at all. It's not deep enough. It could also be louder. In general, this track needs more bass and more treble. The lead almost never needs to dominate a mix to be heard. Bring out the percs and bass line a bit more.

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Thanks for the comments. I will take everything into consideration. Thanks again.

I figured out the problem. I actually listened to the song I uploaded and what do you know it sounded different. When I extracted it the compressor somehow turned off so it sounded weak. Check it out, I edited the post and added a new link. Thanks everyone!

Where is the bass?
Intro is wet....need to add some FX and bass
I like melody

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Yes, the strings are good and the chord progression works. I am getting a bit bored of it by 1.30 though. I also think there need to be other melodic elements that are introduced during the intro as well, not just percussion.

The lead sound is a strong one, but the melody isn't all I'd hoped. I skip ahead to find more variation and things stay much the same.

Overall in my opinion this track has a lot of promise.