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left-behind-daniel-byer-original-mix
My first decent trance production
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dmbyer
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- dmbyer
dmbyer at 7.13 on September 22, 2009 03:06
@Dynamic Interplay: I think you have a sick monitoring setup ;) What do you have? I used delay on the clap to give it a fatter sound, you are probably hearing the effect of that is my guess. I'll go listen to it at high volume.
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Dynamic Interplay at 7.13 on September 22, 2009 02:35
I am getting what sounds like a little bit of aliasing on the reverb on the clap. Not sure if that is intentional or not, but it sounds almost like a slight audio degrade.
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Dynamic Interplay at 4.51 on September 22, 2009 02:32
@silverlining: Ditto. Your sparse use of the filtering and glitch make it all the more effective in the track.
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Dynamic Interplay at 4.44 on September 22, 2009 02:32
The crash came in too loud on my listening setup. Might want to double check that.
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Dynamic Interplay at 3.20 on September 22, 2009 02:30
@silverlining: Agreed. Again like I said before, I think it just needs some more "atmosphere" or something to make it sparkle a bit more.
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Dynamic Interplay at 2.32 on September 22, 2009 02:29
Good climax to the end. You could expand on it more even if you like
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Dynamic Interplay at 1.05 on September 22, 2009 02:29
@silverlining: The arp line here isn't so bad for me. It needs a little tweaking may be to sit better in the mix, but I think it works.
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Dynamic Interplay at 0.37 on September 22, 2009 02:28
Once everything kicks in here, I feel like it could use a bit more reverb to wetten it up some
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dmbyer on September 21, 2009 04:05
@silverlining: Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate the criticism. I spent a really long time on this track (about 50-60 hours) and to be honest I think I was just sort of getting ready to finally complete this project, so when I finally did it was very difficult for me to go through it a few more times and complete that final polishing that might really make it stand out. Thanks for the idea on creating movement in the lead timbre, I think that's probably the primary adjustment I might make to this track. Thanks!
- silverlining
silverlining on September 20, 2009 23:14
So... that came off sounding really mean, negative, and nasty. For that I apologize, but if you're going to put your work up for review, well, we assume that you want it critiqued - and if I'm not gonna be straight-up honest with you, then we are both wasting our time (me by lying to you, and you by reading the lies).
I had a few serious issues with your track. That lead sound didn't have enough movement. It did the same thing over and over again for a very long time. Now, I know that this is trance, and that under most circumstances you can get away with that kind of thing - but the timbre itself was the main point of contention. Learn how to give your sounds movement. Make them come alive. Filter them by the tiniest amount - vary the velocity of notes a bit here and there - make it sound like a human made the track.
Again with the lead - you played the same sequence / very similar sequences of notes over and over and over and over and over again. You can drop your lead without having a breakdown, and you don't have to bring it in that early. Make 'em wait. Leave them wanting more, not gasping for breath.
... okay okay, I'm done with the negative critiques. (When I review, I always state the negative first so that I can end on a good note.)
For this being your first track that you've released to the public, the mix was /good/. Nothing was off so badly that it ruined the track. That's seriously a really commendable thing. Half of trance is being able to get all the sounds through right ('cos it likes to be so technical, you know) - so if you can do that, you're halfway there. If you are seriously planning on trance being your main form of musical communication with the outside world, then you are well-prepared for that from a mixing standpoint. Again, good job. I mean, the elements of the track don't really conflict with each other, and they fill out the frequency spectrum pretty well.
I have to commend you on the time spent on this track. 50-60 hours?! That's insane, man! Congrats on having that much dedication to the craft - way to go on not giving up 5 hours in, like I do every time I try to write a track! Lol.
Keep it up. This is a really good start. There were a few issues, yeah, but once you get some stuff worked out, you are going to be pretty dang good. (I mean, I followed you here on SoundCloud, and I don't even listen to trance anymore, really.) I'll be looking forward to your future works.
-K
- silverlining
silverlining at 6.18 on September 20, 2009 23:00
The lead dropping out here would have been nice. The pad / slow arp and bass have something to say, too, and this is trance, so showing them off towards the end would have been great.
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silverlining at 5.37 on September 20, 2009 22:59
Lead's getting annoying again. Humanize! Add some movement to the timbre, my ears are getting bored.
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silverlining at 4.00 on September 20, 2009 22:57
Very nice return to the main theme - your mixing is good, and the impact of soft to loud was great.
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silverlining at 2.13 on September 20, 2009 22:56
The mix is a box. You are filling it out well here. I like the bass - it could stand to be a little tighter, but it's good.
- silverlining
silverlining at 1.05 on September 20, 2009 22:55
Hate to sound negative, but the arp that comes in here is kinda annoying - a timbre like that could really stand to be filtered a lot more - maybe a gentle, low-resonance LP with some LFO on the cutoff.
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