Room for improvement...
When the strings first come in for example, they halve the volume of the piano and shove it to the back of the song, whereas it would sond much better if it were to stand out from the rest. Also with the strings at the start, The dischord sounds really unpleasant and it just makes the strings sound muddy and blurry. This kind of dischord continues in various places throughout the song, and I reckon it would sound much better without it.
Thank you for a somewhat helpful review. I'll attempt to try some of the things I said, although I may not understand some of your terminology. I am thinking of taking the piano out of one part so I do not have 'fighting leads' as another put it.
Good for a first.
The string-sound part in the background of the intro would have sounded better as a kind of scratchy super-saw type instrument in my opinion, more like rave synth you have going in the main part of the song. There is a recurring moment in the repeating chunk of the song when the main synths cut out and your left with almost nothing except the drums and the trancey plucks. You should put something else there, maybe some sort of breakdown of the drums or glitchy sound effects, cause as it is right now those parts sound a bit empty. Otherwise, this is a good track to show off as a first attempt into the genre.
First of all, thanks alot for your advices !
Think your right, some supersaw would be better,true. I'll give it a try!
Well,the "rave thing" is because,i wanted to do something different, as dubstep normaly sounds,you know - some unique shit ;)
Thanks for your advices,it helps me alot to do a better track next time,thanks !
Not bad
When recording stuff from an input like a keyboard it's usually a good idea to quantize the notes so they start and end at snapped times, (unless you're going for a "natural" feel for something like a piano solo, etc.) The synth needed a bit more equalising to bring out some contrast between the higher frequency notes and the bass notes.
man fuck I need to go to school for this stuff
Distortion...
You should stick a limiter or compressor on this, because with all the dischord there are some really scratchy moments that could be avoided. Maybe tone down the amount of dischord in the track, or use instruments that don't blur into each other so much (like the low strings at the start, the dischord just becomes this muddy blurry puddle or blech, which could be avoided if you split the notes up into a few different instruments).
Thank you for the review. I'm sorry you didn't like the strong dischord. The muddiness is exactly what I was going for with this one, to emphasize the "torment" feeling.
Cool!
Sounds almost mechanical... like Cheshyre's Train Madness song... hence the title of the song I guess.
Hmm i don't know that song. I'll look it up.
The main reason i called it Freight Train is because of the intro synth really. I was kinda making a train whistle sound. (in the end i failed and ended up with this.. )
Oh well thanks you liked it! :)
Good
Except the crash ping-pong delay effect really bugged me. The crash wasn't long enough to overlap between the stereo seperation, and it just sounded empty and incomplete.
The part where the bass pads come in at the start was pretty awesome, and the square plucks added some bounce to the track.
The vocals would have sounded great with a backing synth mispitched maybe a fourth higher or lower than the pitch of the vocals.
However, the track seems to me like it's missing something. You have the beat, the bass and the lead, but there needs to be something else in there to fill out the track. At the moment there sounds like there should be another instrument that would round out the whole song perfectly, but it isn't there.
Overall not a bad song, but there there is definitely some room for improvement.
Excellent review, thank you.
The delay was actually removed, but it's still present in this MP3, apologies for this.
There is definitely room for improvement! :)
Not bad...
There needs to be more happening in a track like this though. Get a little more variation in on the drumline and the gated synth lead thingy, add in some instruments that break the bassy sine heavy background. It sounds too blurry and muddy, you need something to slice through it... like vinegar cuts through oily things.
And stick a limiter or a compressor on this for heavens sake, the amount of distortion was inexcusable for this level of production.
yeah its rough draft math dude, i got yeah, as for the compressors i blow at that shit i send it off to a buddy of my to EQ my tracks.
I fell it does need more progression and if you have any ideas on how i would do that or go about it please give your thoughts!
the drums is basic not going to lie not my best work but shit i always do the drums last when im finishing this song.
as for the Gated synth i will leave it like it is, its not meant to be the main part of the song just some thing to even the highs the mids and lows.
I like that old school bass feel though it is a bit murky as you pointed out.
thanks for the notes man and i will be taking your opinion in to considerations!
Not bad,
There isn't much going on though. There should be more variation in the timing of your wubs. Half-beat and quarter-beat aren't the only settings you can use on an LFO ;) . The "bridge" at 1:25 didn't fit in at all, I'd recommend changing that. You should start compressing your songs so that there is less "space" between instruments of different frequencies. Also, get some practice at mastering your songs, cause the bass kind of overpowered everything else and just drowned it out. Otherwise, this is pretty good.
Very true, those aren't the only settings. Except the LFO in Sylenth1 seemed quite rigid, not too dynamic. I agree about the bridge entirely. I rushed a bit through this song which was a mistake. I'll definitely look into mastering or even just mixing and sculpting the sound itself better because I struggled A LOT with this to make the other instruments heard. I think I compressed the hell out of my kick so it would even be audible. I totally agree again with the how little there is going on. Thanks for the review! I'll keep it all in mind :D
Not bad.
A bit simplistic, and the use of presets put me off a little bit (chords of life, amirite?)... sounds like theres a bit of clipping there, might want to equalize it a bit better next time. However, all that aside this is a pretty cool song, almost dubstep-ish.
Yeah, I think I used that preset. I don't really know much about creating my own synths. Last time I tried doing that I just twisted a bunch of knobs around in Sytrus and my song Practice was the result. Also, I don't really know much about EQing still >_>
But thanks for listening and enjoying it!
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