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[Keep on Rolling]

very slick!

nicely done, oozes professionality.

keeps it up!

glitchs2d responds:

Thanks

[8wonders - slunchy.]

not bad.

..but theres some really bad ducking going on. and its not "good" ducking like a sidechained kick on a compressor in some electro house track. its quite distracting.

The bass sounds a bit muddy because of it.

It sounds like you need to roll the bassline off at about 55hz, very difficult to explain how I would fix it on here. I could quite easily fixx it though.

Effectively what you have is several instruments all competing for the same bandwidth in your perceptable EQ range. This means that your kick, and your sub / bassline are both occupying the same frequencies.

What i mentioned before about rolling offf the bassline, is because below 50 hz, you're "pushing air" ie the speakers are moving at such a low frequency that you cannot actually hear the sound, its far too deep.
Well this sound that you cannot hear, still exists in the mix, and therefore has an effect on your limiter, and might be what is causing this crazy ducking phenomenon.

your kick drum should have the low frequencies rolled off at about 70hz,m so as to not interfere with the sub. I can hear the kicks and the subs fighting it out. I hope this helps. I've probably gone overly complicated. you can PM me if you want any decent tips.

I'm assuming you use fruityloops/FL Studio? everyone on newgrounds except me seems to use it ;-S

kjhsdgf responds:

yeah, i realized it needed serious editing, hence the plea in the comments.
but yeah, good tips, i think i can finally get to mastering this track!
yeah, i use fl9 (it's the first one i heard about, so it's the one i got used to)
but there are some people who use reason and cubase around hurr,
but they're few and far between

[AF - Forever (Original)]

Melodicaly awesome!

Hey man,
Excellent effort. touch too much compression though. I can hear it ducking in the wrong places.

Build is far too long. I keep waiting for it to explode into a fantastic array of huge beats, pumping basslines, and keep getting disappointed.

Notice I gave you a 9...you have to finish this man. These are some of the nicest trance melodies i've heard in years (and i've been listening / producing electronica for near on 20 years now)

again, awesome shit man
9/10
5/5

aliaspharow responds:

Dude, your a freakin god

[Level Complete!]

great! timing issues though

hey there,

pretty good effort, but the drums sound like they have a groove template on them, or they haven't been quantized. they sound like theyre not tight enough. if the timing was spot on i'd have given this at least a 9. dnb has to be precise, and this only just misses the mark!

EQ is great though!

great effort!
7/10
4/5

[101 Degrees (Dubstep)]

FALSE ADVERTISING!!!!!

Heya man,

Great track, production quality is decent. but i was a tad disappointed when i heard some electro / house coming from my speakers.

Dubstep has a more syncopated beat, and lots of bassline wobbles. see my track "trench Warfare" to see kinda what dubstep is about. Or youtube "Nero dubstep"

But had you labeled this as electro house, or house, it would have been far more accurate!

Regardless,

5/5 10/10

well done mate

[Inner Self <Duba>]

nice work man

Sounds fine to me...I dont know what those other too plebs are on about. Drums are tight and sit nicely in the mix (maybe drop the level of them a touch). Sub is nice and clean. Melodies are pretty good, reminds me of Concord Dawn somewhat (mainly the square lead sound)

nice work man!

8/10
4/5

[Life is the Drug - BK]

pretty decent

Heya man, Nice track. Intricate melodies, nicely put together. I'm not keen on the drum samples, they sound a bit hollow. Even a touch of reverb on them would probably go somewhere towards phattening them up. A nice phat snare would improve the beat considerably. Try layering several samples.

Sounds like theres some clipping happening as well. The bassline seems to be competing with the kick drum in some places, it kind of muds out a bit. Also, purely from a taste point of view, i think this track is screaming out for some big sweeping pads in the backround.

I'm on my second loop now (its playing as I write this) I notice that the clipping distortion comes in when the dnb bit comes in at about 1:35 til about 2:17 if this is by design, you should maybe limit the distortion to only the bassline, and not the drums.

Again, Nicely done mate. keep it up!

check mine and leave me some reviews if you feel so inclined!

Bracksta responds:

thanks for the review and tips :), i have been working on finding and making really great breakbeat percussion, it is very hard to get the thick yet pop sound. the bass is distorted on purpose :), i like saws. thanks for your time and effort, much appreciated!

[DnB Robots]

decent effort

nicely done man, although its a bit slow for dnb,

but for a breaks track, is quite excellent :)

Bpm needs to be at least 168 for dnb....but thats mere technicalities.

well done man, nice melodies, pretty decent production qualities, except that bassline comes in a bit strong at 2:10

great effort though :P

9/10
4/5

[[oZ] ~ Nightcrawler (Dubstep)]

Nicely done

I like this man,

mixdown sounds great.

good quality on the whole!

4/5
9/10

[ATC-Around The World Remix]

decent!

I've listenend to a few of your remixes now, and I've noticed one thing.....not one of them has the acapellas? Have you tried looking for them?

I've got the clean vocals for most of the tracks of yours i've listened to. This remix would sound way more complete if you'd put the vocals in it too.

The original has a keychange (transposes up 2 semis) at about 3/4 through the track. I think that would have been a nice touch to keep that :)
8/10
4/5