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da_hambo

Hi lads. I made a house track for a remix comp. Spent a bit more time this time on EQing, and mixing. Involved Logitech speakers, Sony headphones and lots of trial and error testing out the sound on different sound systems. Happy with the main groove. Not happy with the second synth, a bit too simplistic but all I could come up with at the time. Please have a listen. I used the vocal, hats and perc of the original track.

http://soundcloud.com/hambolicious/little-nicky-feat-laurent-battles-colourful-dave-hamblyn-short-mix

paulthom8

mordeith wrote: »

Very nice indeed. My favourite of yours so far. Love that kick and general feel to the track. Only things I would say is I was surprised the synth at the start of the track wasn't worked back in later on.
Also the entrance of the main synth sequence at 2.20 is s bit jarring. Might be better with a more subtle integration.
Lovely number in general.

Thanks Mordeith. Appreciate your ears and advice.
Track stillneeds work and is by no means finished, and you are right, the prophet sequence drops in too suddenly. It was starting to wreck my head as i couldn't get the levels right, so i just rendered to mp3 and uploaded.

mordeith

eviltimeban wrote: »

Here's "Project Machine" from my new EP. Let me know what you think!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZSNPZoAkJ0

That's got a very 'No Disco' feel to it. Great video and the track itself is deep. A bit too leftfield for my own taste but good production. I could easily imagine Bjork singing over it.

mordeith

da_hambo wrote: »

Hi lads. I made a house track for a remix comp. Spent a bit more time this time on EQing, and mixing. Involved Logitech speakers, Sony headphones and lots of trial and error testing out the sound on different sound systems. Happy with the main groove. Not happy with the second synth, a bit too simplistic but all I could come up with at the time. Please have a listen. I used the vocal, hats and perc of the original track.

http://soundcloud.com/hambolicious/little-nicky-feat-laurent-battles-colourful-dave-hamblyn-short-mix

Nice balance to the track. Mix and eq seem good. Might be a bit light in the lower end but no biggie. I'd agree with the second synth. Not the melody necessarily but the sound itself, just a bit weak. Maybe a bit more reverb or a subtle delay would be of benefit.

da_hambo

mordeith wrote: »

Nice balance to the track. Mix and eq seem good. Might be a bit light in the lower end but no biggie. I'd agree with the second synth. Not the melody necessarily but the sound itself, just a bit weak. Maybe a bit more reverb or a subtle delay would be of benefit.

Thanks for listening Mordeith. Im starting to see the value now of clean as possible mixes. Much more satisfying. In other news, this track had a basic beat intro which I had to leave out because three times Soundcloud said it contained part of a track called "Never Easy" by Jay Sustain. Went through this track. Sounds nothing like my track. No vocals different key. Not even a four four beat. Weird bots on Soundcloud.

Anyone else get accused of copyright infringement even though SC couldn't be more wrong? What annoys me even more is three times my dispute was not upheld and I had to change the arrangement to upload!

eviltimeban

mordeith wrote: »

That's got a very 'No Disco' feel to it. Great video and the track itself is deep. A bit too leftfield for my own taste but good production. I could easily imagine Bjork singing over it.

Not sure what you mean by "no disco" (the TV show?) but thanks for the feedback! The Bjork comment is a big compliment!

was.deevey

Anyone else get accused of copyright infringement even though SC couldn't be more wrong? What annoys me even more is three times my dispute was not upheld and I had to change the arrangement to upload!

Not on Soundcloud - but youtube picked up 3 sections of my track (single synth sustained note and a hat loop!) that I had to file a dispute on

I'd have liked to have heard the main melody worked through a bit more in the latter part of the track and the clap is a bit wishy washy for my taste but in general a lovely, rolling number.

Appreciate the kind words

I was going to change out the existing claps for something a lil less "old school" - just haven't quite what I want yet Will certainly work in a but more riff integration after the break.

mordeith

eviltimeban wrote: »

Not sure what you mean by "no disco" (the TV show?) but thanks for the feedback! The Bjork comment is a big compliment!

Yeah, the Donal Dineen show. Used to be great stuff on that. First time I heard Orbital's 'The Box'. One of the best tunes ever imo

keithkk16

Something new I've been playing around with. House and Disco vibes
https://soundcloud.com/scoob89/ocean-drive

da_hambo

keithkk16 wrote: »

Something new I've been playing around with. House and Disco vibes
https://soundcloud.com/scoob89/ocean-drive

I like it mate. Quite hypnotic and catchy. Is the vocal sampled or from a royalty free disc? I like the way it's chopped up keeps the interest up. Could imagine it on MTV Party Zone in the 90's with a tripped out psychadelic disco-y video!

mordeith

keithkk16 wrote: »

Something new I've been playing around with. House and Disco vibes
https://soundcloud.com/scoob89/ocean-drive

I wasn't really feeling the initial part of this track. The synth stabs a bit too metallic sounding and the first vocal sample's timing sounds a bit off.
However things pick up nicely at 2.05. The bassline and kick work well to drive the track on, coupled with the high melody for added interest. The shorter 2nd and 3rd vocal samples are better implemented throughout. Nice delays on some of the perc hits and production overall is good.

randonio14

First time making trance, anything i can improve on?

soundcloud.com/brandonrileyofficial/trance/s-Afn04

keithkk16

da_hambo wrote: »

I like it mate. Quite hypnotic and catchy. Is the vocal sampled or from a royalty free disc? I like the way it's chopped up keeps the interest up. Could imagine it on MTV Party Zone in the 90's with a tripped out psychadelic disco-y video!

Vocal's are just sampled from some old gospel song I found.

Tragamin2k2

https://soundcloud.com/tragamin/shane-elliott-i-want-you-tragamin-remix

ridic proud of this one

mordeith

randonio14 wrote: »

First time making trance, anything i can improve on?

soundcloud.com/brandonrileyofficial/trance/s-Afn04

Not too bad. Trance for me though should have a fairly epic breakdown which I didn't get here, or rather it was at the beginning of the track instead of the middle (unless this is just a preview?)
Good strong kick and decent melody. EQ might need a bit of work though. After the drop I'm only really hearing the main synth and the kick. The bassline, pads and percussion are a bit muddy.

mordeith

Tragamin2k2 wrote: »

https://soundcloud.com/tragamin/shane-elliott-i-want-you-tragamin-remix

ridic proud of this one

Nice tight sound and good all round production. The pluck synth at 0.38 sounds a bit odd to my ears, not sure if it fully fits. Lovely dub style bassline (as in oldskool dub, not dubstep!)
Interesting vocal. Adds a cool atmosphere. So yeah, I pretty much like everything bar for that main synth, just not fully there for me in terms of the pure sound of it.

mordeith

Just on a general note. There's a core of about 15 or so of us on this thread but I've noticed that it tends to very one-sided in terms of submissions. I think more effort should be made to post feedback on other people's tracks. You don't have to like the style but some observations on mixing, eq'ing or arrangement can be beneficial to the producer even if you can't comment on the style.
The thread will be a more lively place then and people might actually feel it's worth posting here.
Apologies for sounding like an old crank but I 'd hate to see this develop into something akin to Facebook whereby everyone is posting these links to something 'really interesting' but nobody is reading it.

da_hambo

Tragamin2k2 wrote: »

https://soundcloud.com/tragamin/shane-elliott-i-want-you-tragamin-remix

ridic proud of this one

Track sounds quite professional. Maybe the synth is a little too loud in the mix. Im not that familiar with the genre but I do appreciate a tidy production and it is good.

da_hambo

randonio14 wrote: »

First time making trance, anything i can improve on?

soundcloud.com/brandonrileyofficial/trance/s-Afn04

Nice Signum style tune. The style is right up my alley (I'm stuck in the late 90's). The drop just needs to be clearer. Careful mixdown EQing and a even a master preset and it would be loud and pumping. Only getting into the latter myself recently and it is infinitely satisfying to have a crisp drop.

paulthom8

Twiddling a fair bit today........

https://soundcloud.com/paulthom8/lunar-phase

mordeith

paulthom8 wrote: »

Twiddling a fair bit today........

https://soundcloud.com/paulthom8/lunar-phase

Another lovely number. Very apt title as well.
Lovely lower end growl going on. One thing I didn't like though was the woodblock, it actually distracted me from the rest and brought me out of a nice cosmic reverie :-)

eviltimeban

paulthom8 wrote: »

Twiddling a fair bit today........

I like the synths and the chords, I personally prefer a house beat with this kind of thing but it's still pretty cool. More variety in the chords would be good, either a part that changes or a breakdown section or something.

Listening to your other stuff, I can hear stuff like Fluke and Spooky coming through, nice work. More of it is definitely 80s influenced, which I wouldn't be a huge fan of, just that sound and era, but that's just me!

Retrigger is cool! Could imagine Ian Brown singing over it.

paulthom8

For sure Mordeith, I know I need to ditch the clave/woodblock now and again. I've become addicted to using it in the background :-) and you are quite right Eviltimeban, I deffo need to improve and build a little more variation in chord changes throughout the tunes.
I tend to get lost in the process of adding those switches. I am an 80's kid and am heavily influenced by those retrofitting sounds. Apologies for the over use :-)

Thanks lads.
Appreciated.

Ravenholm

nice job Paul.

The track reminds me of ambient techno from the early 90s, very much like the stuff on the Artificial Intelligence Compilations on Warp records back in the day.

eviltimeban

This is another track from the Geisha EP:

https://soundcloud.com/geisha-1/pablo

Sort of a trip-hop feel at the start, and then it goes into a nice ambient piano section.

keithkk16

eviltimeban wrote: »

This is another track from the Geisha EP:

https://soundcloud.com/geisha-1/pablo

Sort of a trip-hop feel at the start, and then it goes into a nice ambient piano section.

Very nice track, lovely sounds throughout. You could of made 2 tracks out of that imo, when it gets to the piano part it feels like a new track is coming in rather than a continuation of the track. Did you master the ep yourself?

keithkk16

Anyone on here doing the application this year? Plenty of great producers on here that have lots of potential. There's always 2 or 3 Irish people that get picked for it every year. Think I might actually do it this year, long shot like but, if you're not in you can't win.

Link http://apply.redbullmusicacademy.com/

eviltimeban

keithkk16 wrote: »

Very nice track, lovely sounds throughout. You could of made 2 tracks out of that imo, when it gets to the piano part it feels like a new track is coming in rather than a continuation of the track. Did you master the ep yourself?

Thanks, no it was mastered by Pete Maher (UK).

Yes many of my tracks establish a theme before heading off in a different direction. Sometimes its just dropping out the beats and having a nice ambient section, or I'll do a new part and gradually introduce the original theme back in. In this the piano plays the guitar line but the other pianos that come in around it actually changes the key.

mordeith

eviltimeban wrote: »

This is another track from the Geisha EP:

https://soundcloud.com/geisha-1/pablo

Sort of a trip-hop feel at the start, and then it goes into a nice ambient piano section.

Love the analogue bassline and the overall production is very sharp.
Like Keith, I'm a bit thrown by the piano section but you don't have to please everybody

shane9689

Hi all, so heres an LP i made over the summer but never released or mastered
enjoy and feedback is welcome