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I'm kind of new to this but I don't want to get into the habit of never showing my stuff to anyone due to insecurity. I was having a lot of trouble with the transition near the middle and I'm not really satisfied with it. Anyway, any feedback appreciated. No idea what genre or style this would be, BPM is too slow for most dance music but I dunno where else it could be posted. http://soundcloud.com/zmbeats/shimmer-black EDIT: Did a major overhaul so it's more of a hip hop track but comments are still welcome if you want Radio du Cambodge fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jun 23, 2012 |
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freudorbison posted:Finally managed to more or less finish a track: I like this a lot but agree that the filters should be opened up a bit. I understand what you're going for but maybe there's a more subtle way. Also how do you get that snare drum sound? Is it just reverb? Also I have a general question for the thread. When I listen to professionally produced songs usually there are a lot of little touches or flourishes that give a lot of character and fullness to a song. Like a little burst of white noise, or a quick vocal sample, or a "ding," or a couple tom tom hits out of nowhere.. My tracks sound really simple to me, and maybe this just takes a lot of practice and good listening, but how does one add little touches like that? Sometimes I try to add a quick vocal bit or extra percussion but it's usually jarring and ugly.
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Jul 30, 2012 00:30
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Flipperwaldt posted:I'm not the best at this, so I devised my own workaround: treat it like any other pattern/track. Percussion or melody. Write a full line that fits with the groove, that fits with the frequencies. Then strip it back to one note, one tiny flourish whatever. Then use it sparingly throughout the track. Good idea, I never thought of it that way! I may have done this to a limited extent for some things but not seen it like that, thanks. Sevyplates posted:A simple answer for this is that it's probably placed in a heavily occupied frequency range so your hits may be trying to compete for attention against a lead/bass/drums/whatever. You should have a spectrum open and see where parts in your song kind of lack dynamics and insert something there. It's real tempting to hear something cool in a sample pack and try to throw it in but chances are it won't work. You can try downpitching the sample or you could make room in your mix for it if a vocal is that important. edit: Also here's a song I made http://soundcloud.com/zmbeats/midnite-zone
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Jul 31, 2012 00:35
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Hello I just finished this track. Tried to add a little more stuff than usual, layering some instruments and a bit extra percussion. People have told me my stuff is often too spare so I'm trying to deepen it up. Also how is the mixing? I've noticed a big difference in the relative volumes of the horns and bass drum between my headphones and my subwoofer/speaker system so I tried to split the difference but I can't really tell. http://soundcloud.com/zmbeats/taurus
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Oct 3, 2012 00:15
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Here are two songs I've made recently, kind of hip hop inspired but ended up being more stand alone tracks. This one is more upbeat, been trying to include more elements going at once to beef up the sond but maybe it's too crowded, i dunno. I think I kind of just lucked into finding the right key to match the synth bass line to the vocal sample I used: https://soundcloud.com/zmbeats/dis-stuff this one is supposed to be more relaxed and spacey: https://soundcloud.com/zmbeats/m-o-o-n
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Nov 3, 2013 03:00
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Lavender Philtrum posted:I love the first one but I feel the synth bassline needs to be more in the mix and further to the left. The left channel has basically nothing in it, compared to the vocals which are fairly in the right channel so it feels off balance. The bassline also lacks a bit of meat, which is why i'd suggest making it a bit louder and maybe adding some subtle reverb. Hey thanks for the reply. Yeah i see what you mean about the unbalanced left vs right and the bassline. I usually end up going through and kind of haphazardly setting the stereo position of all the elements of a track like right before I mix it down so probably that's why it's sloppy like that..
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Nov 11, 2013 20:19
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ejstheman posted:When people talk about the "click" of a synth drum, what is that exactly? I've seen a tutorial for making a synth kick that has an envelope with 0ms attack, 10ms or something decay, 0% sustain, mapped onto pitch with a scale of 3 octaves. So there's this little bit of high frequency at the beginning that almost immediately disappears. Is that an example of "click"? Yeah, I think that's pretty much it. You can also try achieving that sound with white noise, enveloped in a similar manner but mapped to volume. I made a juke track. Related to the above post, the kick drum in this is a sample of a basketball bounce layered on top of a 808 thump https://soundcloud.com/zmbeats/i-like-it
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Dec 12, 2013 02:39
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I made a footwork track, not really sure what thread it goes in but it's more electronic music than hip hop so i'll leave it here. Based around an R&B slow jam kind of sample, electric piano and chimes. https://soundcloud.com/zmbeats/another-night
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Jan 31, 2014 04:11
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nigga crab pollock posted:This is tight as hell thanks!
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Feb 4, 2014 02:05
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I made two juke/footwork tracks lately. tried to make a spare, kind of minimal footwork track https://soundcloud.com/zmbeats/4ever Chopping up sampled vocals. this track's more regular than the one above i guess, more structured. https://soundcloud.com/zmbeats/bossey
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Feb 28, 2014 03:36
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I made a new juke track, tried to work faster than I usually do. https://soundcloud.com/ratsreebok/rl-tk-mn The first one is totally off beat, doesn't cohere at all. the 2nd one I guess does have kind of a video game soundtrack vibe but it's only 18 seconds long, not really sure what to suggest about it. massive spider posted:I made some really bro-ey electro Captain Organ posted:I'm trying something super new for me. Everything I have written lately has been super overdone and big and stupid, so I'm really trying to strip back some ideas and make the most minimal stuff possible. Is anybody else into this? Am I lying to myself?
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Apr 15, 2014 00:50
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Maguro posted:Got lots of new tunes on my SC, but here is the latest one: This is awesome, i like most of the tracks I've heard on your soundcloud. I like the intro portion of the above track especially, the lead into the main pattern is really smooth. Sounds like the first minute is more juke and the second half more jungle. cool stuff.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:55
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I made a new juke track https://soundcloud.com/ratsreebok/1-mo-gen
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Aug 26, 2014 00:15
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Kind of a dark tune, tried switching it up between a plodding 80bpm pattern and 160 juke type of shuffle in the middle. https://soundcloud.com/ratsreebok/trubble
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Diggin' this, subtle and balanced. Feel like it hits the right note, dark but not dreary. The Super-Id posted:So I decided to sign up for Sam Matla's EDM Foundations course. It's pricey for something you could probably get from watching a lot of free stuff on youtube, but I found it pretty helpful. He walks you through creating 3 different songs, which are all pretty generic and not great. A house track, a dubstep track, and then a trance track. Then the idea is you do your own track alongside them. I found the exploration of the process really expanded my knowledge about arranging and mixing. ------------------- EDIT: gently caress it I'll post in the other thread, they are hip hop beats Radio du Cambodge fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Aug 15, 2017 |
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Maybe this thread is dead as a doornail but if anyone would like to give me some feedback I'd appreciate it! This is a long track I adapted from a semi-improvised live show I just did last weekend. Wondering if it drags on and is too patched-together as a standalone recording. My favorite section is the last 2 or 3 minutes where it's basically just percussion and a simple bass so part of me wants to just strip everything out, but I suspect that part only works because it's preceded by a bunch of other stuff. https://soundcloud.com/ratsreebok/good-natured-ghosts/s-ndlwz
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