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| pozz |
i listened to part 1. i'm part of the ancien regime of glowstick hooligans, so understand when i say i don't like this music.
but, this review is about the mix itself, and a lot of these kinds of mixes have been popping up within the past 2 years.
the intro would have been very good if there was no talking giant. the melody was class tho. it's too bad this trance can't sustain a a section for longer than 2minutes without some sort of break -- your mixing took advantage of this to match up the tracks, tho. track selection is decent, you do alot of interesting stuff, but again, its not really sustained for any period of time longer than 1 minute without a break or a drop coming. and the music is not to blame, cuz if you are behind the virtual Ableton decks, then you can cut and splice to keep a melody or groove going. if you gonna be doing this kinda intricate mix at home, microediting for hours, then take advantage of that, and use all the tricks you can think of to keep it going.
still, the best part is prolly when the breakbeat starts around 18min til about 22min, a nicely sustained section.
for the technical stuff -- watch the levels, cuz if you look at the waveform in soundcloud, you can see it going up and down with big differences in dynamics between tracks. when i was listening, there was a bunch of times when a track dropped and the overall volume BOOMed in response. a similar problem is that you tend to mix alot of melodic sections together, but either the levels are off, or the tracks clash, cuz distortion/masking is prominent.
anyway, good luck with future projects. |
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| iloop |
| i really enjoyed this mix, nicely done. |
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| stealthman |
| I don't know what it is, but I cannot stand the new sound. There are far too many of these type of mixes popping up here. |
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| Rashad648 |
| quote: | Originally posted by stealthman
I don't know what it is, but I cannot stand the new sound. There are far too many of these type of mixes popping up here. |
Didnt you listened to ASOT yearmixes or smth like that?
Well I cannot agree with some of critics here. |
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| stealthman |
| quote: | Originally posted by Rashad648
Didnt you listened to ASOT yearmixes or smth like that?
Well I cannot agree with some of critics here. |
I've never stopped listening to Trance. In fact, it's been a decade now and am subscribed to various DJ's podcasts out there, heard nearly every single ASOT, plough through the newsletters spammed to my email each week to check the new releases, wasted my time with peoples promotional mixes here (only a very few are worthy of my hard drive space) ...all just to find something at least decent.
So yeah. When I am critical about the stuff I hear, I have an established ground for the criticism. Let's just say my ears act like a quality control filter. Then again, it's all subjective. Everyone has their own taste. The construction of your mixes were great, however the majority of tunes just sound pretentious based on what I've been exposed to over the past years. |
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| Rashad648 |
| quote: | Originally posted by stealthman
Everyone has their own taste. The construction of your mixes were great, however the majority of tunes just sound pretentious based on what I've been exposed to over the past years. |
Before mixing this set I thought a little about reactions. I am agree everyone has their own taste and you can make everyone satisfied. Its not easy to jump from progressive to uplifting in a short period of time believe me. What I am saying is... I've changed the playlist several times when creating it thinking about majority factor. May the reason is a short period between tracks or the tracks are themselves or my mixing skills. May be you've heard this tracks several times so it becomes boring. You want and search for smth speacial so do I. I am agree with the volume factor and trying to learn on my mistakes. Thanks for your comment. The critics are welcome. http://soundcloud.com/rashad648/qua...-remake-by-rash |
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