Make sure to calibrate them to your room, should make a big difference if the room isn’t optimal
Ohh yeah well a tad bit more then, I’d probably had dropped the snare
Make sure to calibrate them to your room, should make a big difference if the room isn’t optimal
Ohh yeah well a tad bit more then, I’d probably had dropped the snare
Yeah, or maybe use another one.
I think without a snare or similar this section would sound incomplete. But yes, I thought about a calmer section, but it didn’t fit. So I made this out of it. Anyway, thanks for listening!
Will do, thanks.
Maybe I can also do some stuff like it’s shown here, I just have to get a decibel meter:
Hey! Thanks so much for listening and Thanks also for giving me your opinion.
You are right about everything! lol I’m still trying to learn how to mix dozens of layers of sound … And it’s hard for me! (It happens to me in all songs) Thank you very much for your advice, I’ll try to get into that more.
Dude… About your song: The sound is perfect! I am very envious of the ability that some of you have to compose such long songs without losing interest, or becoming repetitive (as it happens to me lol)
Thanks mate!
Yes, just like almost everybody I try to create a sound which is not getting boring. Of course the way you’re creating your sound depends on the style and the atmosphere you want to achieve. In my opinion repetition isn’t a bad thing as long as it fits to the sound and the atmosphere. I’ve listened to all of your tracks on Bandcamp and I don’t think that your tracks are repetitive. Your song “Project 2501” runs at 130 BPM in 3:29, my song “Cybernetics” walks at 80 BPM in 5:29. There are more things happening in one minute of a song running at 130 BPM than in one minute of a song running at 80 BPM, you need more patterns. No, your song is great, it’s just the last polishment regarding to the melodies what’s missing, just what I wrote, but that’s just my opinion. Another example is “Neon Sunset”, it’s really awesome! I promise that I’ll buy it if you drop the bass synth starting at 1:37, which is the “fly in the soup” to me. But I think, even if it’s not my cup of tea, that every fan and listener of Darksynth/Cyberpunk needs to know your Riding The Darkness. Really good! But as I wrote, my favorite track is Coronavirus A1. Good composition, good mix, good atmosphere. I think I’ll buy it while the next round of music shopping. I especially like the choir starting at 1:35. What’s that instrument?
I’m surprised & flattered to be summoned.
Here is what I have to say:
There is a low-pass section at the 2minute mark? In the Cybernetics tune? I guess that is a bit too subtle for me to qualify at as such. Probably because the kick keeps going strong. I think that old adage, go big or go home applies. If you have a break down. Break it down completely. Don’t be subtle about it.
As always I dig your sound design and general mood of the track. And I like that there is more forward progression / less retreading previously heard material in this. And it will come as no surprise I find that a good thing.
If you permit me a little bit of feedback. I don’t like the delays at the end. Those last few bleeps weaken it. I think it will be much stronger if you just cut of those delayed sounds. Have it end powerfully on the note. Now it feels like an after drip.
Anyway, keep up the good work! Hopefully your new studio monitors will inspire you to make new music. And not start you chasing dragons down the rabbit hole of endless mix improvements.
Thank you very much Your comments encourage me to continue composing and learning
I need a little more time to be able to listen to your music well, I already follow you on Soundcloud, so I will listen to it calmly
You can download my music for free in mp3 from Bandcamp. I make music as a “safety valve” to express how I feel. There is no commercial interest
Oh! about the plugin … You’re going to laugh, it’s a free vst of choral vocals, it sounds horrible, but equalizing a bit and adding a lot of reverb it sounds better. It’s called Sonatina Choir. But I’m still looking for other alternatives, I think Choir from Labs can give better results.
Anyway, thanks again for your time!
I do ike honest critics.
Yes. If I would explain it through comic speech I would say the bass usually makes “waaaaaa waaaaaa waaaaaa” but at 2:00 it makes “wup wup wup”. The frequency of the bass starts somewhere in “the middle”, increases, and at 2:00 it’s low, but afterwards it’s increasing again.
Most of my songs end like this. I like it that way.
No way! I’m already ok with my mixes, the monitors are just an addition. I hope to get faster results, that’s all.
Thanks! If you want to listen to more tracks then you have to look right here , that’s my Youtube channel. At the moment I only have got 30 tracks on Soundcloud, I had to delete a lot because I don’t have a pro account. You will never find more than 34 tracks on my soundcloud. But of course if you want to check if my mixing and mastering is good enough, then Youtube sucks in this case, because the sound quality of my videos on Youtube always sucks. I’m still creating videos with an old version of the Windows movie maker, and this program causes bad sound quality. But it’s still good enough for a quick listen…
I know, but usually I prefer rewarding the musician for his work.
Omnisphere has some good human choir presets and I’ve heard that there are a lot more, but I still haven’t found them yet. And the VSTs by H.G. Fortune also got some good ones. What I’m searching for are “mellow choirs from outer space”, as well as pads from outer space. I will check Choir from Labs, thanks.
One last thing that I’ve noticed:
Your tracks seem to be stereo all the way. This is not a bad thing, but if you want to get your sound “more pro”, then you should think about using a monoizer in your master channel. A monoizer is needed for getting a specific frequency range into mono. Usually from 0Hz to 200Hz the frequencies are in mono, all the rest in stereo. So you don’t need to make all your bass in mono, just the bass from 0Hz to 200HZ. You will need this if you want to release something on vinyl one day. And to be honest, your mix also will be improved. I’m using this not that long myself, but it’s really an improvement.
Dream or nightmare?
Dream, but why 98? It has to be an endless loop from 89 to 93, no doubt about it.
'98 is just the cutoff point - '93 is a bit too early in my opinion. Also, I accidentally uploaded a version without hihats and toms, so am about to fix that
EDIT: fixed!
Thankl you Thank you Thank you!!
I will try that “monoizer” and see what happens!
Stay in touch man, thanks again for your advices
What a great track Sam!!!Oh boy i wish it was the nineties again,how time goes by i dont know
That works really well for the genre at least. Cool tune!
Ghost-busters came in mind while listening to this and there is a new movie coming soon i hope its good.Very very nice track
I so do not regret buying an Ibanez bass, Boss GT-001 and Waves: Abbey Road TG Mastering VST. Only thing i regret is that i didn’t buy them sooner.
New ambient track. Made some tunes for a hypothetical SimCity-like game (no specific plans, just liking the idea of watching infrastructure being built from a big isometric map). Anyway, this came from that little daydream, somehow:
Smooth and calming good sound choices and very nice put together.
Very nicely finegrained design, I love it. Is there more of this style?
Thanks! I haven’t done a lot in this style, but these are more on the ambient side: