theCaleb

Wooooooooooooow!!!!!!! that's what i'm talking about. i love this track my friend and keep up the good work. Salute!!!!!!

This is great, real fun and lively :) Flawless production, composition, and vocals and lyrics.. ready to master.

Get in touch via the contact page and fire across an email address. I am willing to assist in any way I can on the strict understanding that my time is freely given. I'm not seeking any credit or financial gain. Just want to help a fellow looper polish their work. :)

Sound goo to me...10/10

There is nothing wrong with the song. It's a very clever arrangement that will work well for commercial pop. Where the cookie crumbles is in the mixing with some levels slightly overcooked. I know the pain in your heart reading this but with a little bit of polish this one can shine. That awesome beat on the hook is dull sounding. Bring that into line with the rest I suspect by pulling back on a fader or two. That's all it is a couple of faders up too high you'll get the vibrancy back and the kick drum will kick not thud. That's what you're listening for. Sidechain the bass very slightly so it wraps around the beat better. Leave the vocal as is.. that's nailed as it stands. Remember this is just my opinion of what I would do with it. My early mixing sucked and I got a lot of helpful advice from other members how to improve it. An honest comment is worth a thousand giving lip service. You can't polish a turd but you can make a decent pop song shine all the ingredients are there for this to be a winner.

Agree with the others, this track is in need of some fine compression execution. Maybe a multi-compressor...but i dunno what type of DAW you use. If you use reason, it's standard compressor should be fitting for the job..as far as any other DAWs download some good plugins. I can't really give too many specific ones, as i'm still searching for a great set of plugins that work for me and my work flow. But i would just start with searching for some "freeware" vst plugins. And if you use a mac, plugins for that is actually "audio unit plugins." I dunno why it's different, i just recently figured that out. Or even RTAS plugins.

And as far the kick drum, and even the vocals the compression settings could be as follows. a 2:1 ratio to maybe a little below 4:1. A slow (or) fast threshold, it really depends what sounds alright to you. Usually a fast threshold is good for tracks like these with a jumping bass kick like that. Make sure to leave a bit of head room on the output gain, so crank it down maybe a -0.3 decibels. That should usually work, as it will keep sounds from peaking or distorting. And with nice compression to smooth things out, you can add a limiter to turn things back up without it peaking. Then you could EQ or whatever you feel is necessary to fine tune and polish your track up. Hope that helps brudda. peace out!

Neobane/InPSYcLe

@mrchewson, i concur.
i listened to all of your work and youre definitely on the right track [pardon the pun]. i like this song the best because the vocal melody on the chorus/hook is the most unique. now, you just have to sing it like you mean it ((something i, too, have to do once a song leaves the "work in progress" stage)) .
the beat is fun, you have a voice that is pleasant to listen to, and youre lyrics are good. perhaps some work on song structure is in order, just so the finished piece sounds polished and radio ready.
let me know if you ever need help with that.
...and keep it up!

No bad m8, put some compression on that main bass drum as its too forward in the mix, the vox need bringing into the mix, when laying down vocals make sure they work with the song not against it, at the mo they sound like an after thought,
Think about re recording them,as they sound like you were wispering and not putting your all into em.
Vocals will make or break a song, sing with conviction :)

Just my 2 cents worth.

a basic pop tune could be classed as commercial house also cool synth work there isnt much creative criticism i can say for this maybe more percussion harder kick some synth riffs :)

You put together a cool song but, the lyrics are pretty basic. Do you write everything yourself? Sounds like you know what your doing though. I just think you need to tell your story with a little more detail.

not bad...

I like your idea. Very nice work on the beat!!!

Love this! Thanks for supporting me! :)

I like the song. Are asking if anyone wants to collab? What do you use to record and do you play at all?