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I Think This Is My First Ever "Semi-Professional" Sounding Track. What Do You Think??
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| MIKE333ACE |
This is my fifth ever trance track and it was made using FL Studio 10.
This is the first track I've made where I have actually begun to use EQ'ing and compression because before this track I had basically no idea of how that stuff worked.
Overall, I think this is my best ever track by quite a bit and I would appreciate any feedback from you whether it's good or bad, (I know that it's definitely not anywhere perfect, so criticism is welcome)
Here's the link to my previous track in case you want to hear the difference from my new one to my last one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgRG...=3&feature=plcp
Hope you guys enjoy my new track. :)
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| Julz |
Hey
Firstly the kick is very reflective in the begining, cut the verb off the low end.
The song is sounding very high cut and its very busy in the mids.
Maybe choose a kick with a snap, more punchy.
Melody is nice and the break down is nice. Piano is way to wet, i like the FX going on during it thou. Really good idea's in the breakdown, but maybe a little to long, starts to drag out.
The kick in is very muffled, i can see what you where trying to do, so think less is more, gives u alot more impact.
Just work on sound selection and placement in the spectrum. Too much going on in 200-800hz, and top end missing. Your percussion/hats are un audiable during most of the song.
Goodluck hope this helps |
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| MIKE333ACE |
| quote: | Originally posted by Julz
Hey
Firstly the kick is very reflective in the begining, cut the verb off the low end.
The song is sounding very high cut and its very busy in the mids.
Maybe choose a kick with a snap, more punchy.
Melody is nice and the break down is nice. Piano is way to wet, i like the FX going on during it thou. Really good idea's in the breakdown, but maybe a little to long, starts to drag out.
The kick in is very muffled, i can see what you where trying to do, so think less is more, gives u alot more impact.
Just work on sound selection and placement in the spectrum. Too much going on in 200-800hz, and top end missing. Your percussion/hats are un audiable during most of the song.
Goodluck hope this helps |
Thanks, I'll definitely experiment around with all that. |
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| brendon575 |
| actually i think there might be a bit of over compressing going on. seems like the high ends are all crunched out :[ and another thing id toss on is a limiter to crank errthang up. |
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| MIKE333ACE |
| quote: | Originally posted by brendon575
actually i think there might be a bit of over compressing going on. seems like the high ends are all crunched out :[ and another thing id toss on is a limiter to crank errthang up. |
I personally find high end quite ear ear-piercing when I play tracks at loud volume, so I like to keep my high's cut in my tracks. But I might experiment with the sidechaining a bit and see how that goes.
Cheers. |
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| LoveHate |
| no idea what of speakers you are using, but it definitely sounds like there is a low pass filter over the entire mix,overall the ideas are definitely there. but you need to work on making sure each individual sound has its own space to shine. |
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| MIKE333ACE |
| quote: | Originally posted by LoveHate
no idea what of speakers you are using, but it definitely sounds like there is a low pass filter over the entire mix,overall the ideas are definitely there. but you need to work on making sure each individual sound has its own space to shine. |
Ok, seeing that everyone is telling me to raise the high end, I will need some help.
I've found the by raising the high end on any of the sounds just gives it a white noise kind of sound, and makes the track to "airy" especially in the drop.
So how can I properly raise the high end without that problem. (all ive been using for this so far is a paramatic eq.) |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by MIKE333ACE
I've found the by raising the high end on any of the sounds just gives it a white noise kind of sound, and makes the track to "airy" especially in the drop. |
This says you're doing a whole lot of things wrong. I'll listen to the track when I get some time, though. |
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| EddieZilker |
You have got to cut and shelve a lot of that bass. Your arpeggio is deplorably out of key. Your ideas are good, Mike, but the execution speaks volumes to your inexperience.
My advice is to work on shelving and cutting your bass, first, because that may be masking the sour notes (particularly if you're having trouble hearing the high end, correctly). The last thing you need to be doing is raising the high end to compensate for its absence. I think it's being drown out by your kicks. |
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| MIKE333ACE |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
You have got to cut and shelve a lot of that bass. Your arpeggio is deplorably out of key. Your ideas are good, Mike, but the execution speaks volumes to your inexperience.
My advice is to work on shelving and cutting your bass, first, because that may be masking the sour notes (particularly if you're having trouble hearing the high end, correctly). The last thing you need to be doing is raising the high end to compensate for its absence. I think it's being drown out by your kicks. |
I've done a bit more work on the track over the last week or so and I have made these kind of changes.
I'll put up a new version later, but so far, I have managed to raise the high end with EQ'ing and adding some more hi-hats, but the only low end that I have worked on cutting is the kick. I'll try cutting some of the bass too if that's what you recommend. |
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| aarones |
good luck to you ! |
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| Th3Reindeer |
| This is great man! A few technical pointers were already covered by other guys on your cloud. Keep goin at it! |
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