Hey guys...i have worked quite hard on this track and would love your feedback on this.

also please lemme know if my mixdown is good or bad. anything good or bad. lemme know. Cheers

http://soundcloud.com/sagar4848/new-island

 

welcome to the forums

i really like the melodic part at the end, i would liked having it much earlier

every melodic element before that feels like a "rise up" for me

maybe you dont want this, but i would try to rearrange the song in a more usual way

__________________------------------------------'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' <- this is the arrangment now in my feelings


the more usual arrangement could be something lik

_________------'''''''''''''''''________'''''''''''''''''''------___________



Oh god - how do i expect anyone to understand this :D:D

try to just repeat some frames of your track - so its easier to keep it in mind ))




mixdown is good - could be better -

when the melodic vibes come in, i think the compressor just works to hard,

i miss some defenition in the lows - is there a sidechain effect working ?
maybe its useful to seperate the kick and bass a little bit more

 

Hey Olson,

Thanks for the great feedback. It was very helpful.

And yes i get what you are trying to say with the arrangement of the song.

The bass is side chained to the kick though maybe it needs a little more.

Just a query, when you say the compressor works to hard, how do you figure that out? As in, i have read up a lot on as to how to work a compressor etc etc obv. though whenever i use a compressor i can't really figure out much difference in the signal except that it gets a little soft and then by adding the make up gain it gets louder. How i generally compress is pull the thresh hold completely down, max attack and least release. then start decreasing the attack and inc the release until i think is fine and then finally pull back the thresh hold up. So how do i figure out if the compressor is too hard coz generally i dont do anything more than 3-4 db of gain reduction? Also is this the right technique for compressing?

I hope you understand what im saying. :p

Thanks anyways! :D

 

i think its just my cunclusion of the kick-and-bass-thing
really hard to tell - if would like the hear the kick more seperated from the bass and then i try again to say something to this statement, ok ?


may i guess in what this was made? FL Studio ? ... just a guess ... because of the reverb at the end :dancing:

listended also to your "aftermath"

i think this melodic stuff could be really suitable for the mass - definitely keep doing this, okay?

 

haha no i work on albeton live 9 :p

and yes ill definitely keep on going...my aim is just to make music which i like and like which i consider well made music ;)

thanks for the motivation