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redwingz
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 Posted - 2008/04/16 : 17:17:36
OK today i have finished my first ever full length track 'The Truth' I say finished, if i get loads of feedback from you guys telling me to change things then it will get changed.
As i say, this is my first ever track, so please give me as much feedback as you can, i would be very grateful. Its a bouncy house/donk tune rather than hardcore, it is 150 bpm and is now on my myspace
www.myspace.com/djpharynx
The link doesnt seem to work unless you copy and paste it
thanx
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FingazMc
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Posted - 2008/04/16 : 17:36:02
Nice tune mate, Have to admit bounce isnt my thing but its pretty cool for bounce.
Gotta say i love the truth sample, think marc smith did a track using it aswell....
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Smoogie
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 Posted - 2008/04/16 : 17:41:23
The link don't work for me! Will try again later as my computer has been acting funny today...
I know that the first track on Sharkey's mix is 'The Truth' by both Marc Smith & Sharkey!
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FingazMc
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Posted - 2008/04/16 : 17:44:23
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Originally posted by Smoogie:
The link don't work for me! Will try again later as my computer has been acting funny today...
Yea didnt work for me either but i just copyd and pasted it and it worked ....:S
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redwingz
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Posted - 2008/04/16 : 17:49:48
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Originally posted by FingazMc:
Nice tune mate, Have to admit bounce isnt my thing but its pretty cool for bounce.
Gotta say i love the truth sample, think marc smith did a track using it aswell....
Cheers, much apreciated, thanx for listening
As for the link, yeah i dunno whats up with it, it wont work lol, so please copy and paste it into the browser and it works like that
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redwingz
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Posted - 2008/04/17 : 11:27:00
I could really use the feedback. Also, ive posted a clip of a new hardcore track im working on called 'Be free'
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Pope C XXIII
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Posted - 2008/04/18 : 00:34:57
I'll try to not be mean, because I really, really don't like scouse, but that's no reason to not be helpful.
If you're making hard house, don't use a kick like that. A fat, heavy kick like that belongs more in hardstyle.
Take the bleepy noise down in the mix. Waay down in the mix.
Keep the kick the same. It's cool to experiment a bit, but generally you want a consistent kick sound (aside from incidental things). The one you used in the second part of the tune suits hard house a lot better.
The sound you used for the melody is really, really bad. What synth gave you that sound? I'd suggest a big supersaw lead like you find in most hard trance and hardstyle.
If you want to layer your kicks, make sure one of them has the bass filtered out of it. Otherwise the kicks will take up a huge amount of room in the mix. (Or cause the audio to clip, and unintentional distortion is not what you want.)
Your donk doesn't have any bass to it.
The hardcore one would be a pretty cool piece of bouncy techno if you changed the NES sounding lead to a rave stab or hoover.
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redwingz
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Posted - 2008/04/18 : 00:42:39
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Originally posted by Pope C XXIII:
I'll try to not be mean, because I really, really don't like scouse, but that's no reason to not be helpful.
If you're making hard house, don't use a kick like that. A fat, heavy kick like that belongs more in hardstyle.
Take the bleepy noise down in the mix. Waay down in the mix.
Keep the kick the same. It's cool to experiment a bit, but generally you want a consistent kick sound (aside from incidental things). The one you used in the second part of the tune suits hard house a lot better.
The sound you used for the melody is really, really bad. What synth gave you that sound? I'd suggest a big supersaw lead like you find in most hard trance and hardstyle.
If you want to layer your kicks, make sure one of them has the bass filtered out of it. Otherwise the kicks will take up a huge amount of room in the mix. (Or cause the audio to clip, and unintentional distortion is not what you want.)
Your donk doesn't have any bass to it.
The hardcore one would be a pretty cool piece of bouncy techno if you changed the NES sounding lead to a rave stab or hoover.
Ok cheers for that, just need to clarify a few things. What do you mean when you say take the bleepy noise 'down in the mix'? you mean quieter or deeper tone?
erm....i used FLkeys for the main tune :s
how do i add bass to my donk?
As for the hardcore one, thats using 3x osc as the synth for the main lead. How did you feel the kick and loops etc sounded in the hardcore one?
Also, where can i get hoover or rave stabs from?
thanx for your feedback, its well appreciated
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Pope C XXIII
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Posted - 2008/04/18 : 01:08:45
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Originally posted by redwingz:
Ok cheers for that, just need to clarify a few things. What do you mean when you say take the bleepy noise 'down in the mix'? you mean quieter or deeper tone?
erm....i used FLkeys for the main tune :s
how do i add bass to my donk?
As for the hardcore one, thats using 3x osc as the synth for the main lead. How did you feel the kick and loops etc sounded in the hardcore one?
Also, where can i get hoover or rave stabs from?
thanx for your feedback, its well appreciated
"Down in the mix" means to make it quieter.
If that's what FLKeys does, don't use it. It sounds a lot like an FL preset, and FL presets are almost universally bad. Use samples, or learn synthesis. 3xosc is a powerful tool, but you can't use its presets if you want a decent sound out of it.
How did you make it in the first place? If it's a sample, you'll either have to layer a different one beneath it, or change it entirely. If you made it from scratch, add another osc an octave beneath it.
In the hardcore one, the sounds were pretty cool, but there was something kind of off about the kick. Not sure what it was, but it seemed odd. And considering you said "loops", I just want to say NEVER USE LOOPS EVER. Samples are cool, but premade loops are very, very rarely a good idea, and it's more helpful to learn how to do things yourself.
As for finding samples of rave stabs and hoovers, just search around, or sample oldschool tunes. To get you off the ground though, here's a samplepack I made a while back: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VC5QLU6J
Hope that helps!
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redwingz
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Posted - 2008/04/18 : 01:29:37
quote:
Originally posted by Pope C XXIII:
"Down in the mix" means to make it quieter.
If that's what FLKeys does, don't use it. It sounds a lot like an FL preset, and FL presets are almost universally bad. Use samples, or learn synthesis. 3xosc is a powerful tool, but you can't use its presets if you want a decent sound out of it.
How did you make it in the first place? If it's a sample, you'll either have to layer a different one beneath it, or change it entirely. If you made it from scratch, add another osc an octave beneath it.
In the hardcore one, the sounds were pretty cool, but there was something kind of off about the kick. Not sure what it was, but it seemed odd. And considering you said "loops", I just want to say NEVER USE LOOPS EVER. Samples are cool, but premade loops are very, very rarely a good idea, and it's more helpful to learn how to do things yourself.
As for finding samples of rave stabs and hoovers, just search around, or sample oldschool tunes. To get you off the ground though, here's a samplepack I made a while back: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VC5QLU6J
Hope that helps!
Cool, thanx, the sample pack is on the DL now. In the scouse one the bleepy sound was 3x osc, the other one later on in the track was FL keys, i wasnt sure about FL keys either. The donk was a sample, so ill av to have a think about that one.
Cheers for listening to them. Guess ill just have to keep at it ;)
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