Spudsy
london, United Kingdom
Joined : 26th Aug 2009 - 16 years ago
Last Online : 25th Oct 2024 - 1 year ago
Spudsy comments on tracks
Spudsy has posted 238 comments on other peoples tracks.
on Water Breather by skwishfish
Thanks for sharing
on Timeless by Lauren Morgan X SJForth by 1lookurhooked
A couple of bits, the bass could use some real sub to underpin the track and fill it out.
Taking the vocal and the instrumental to a mixing and mastering house would take this to the next level. the vocals are superb but dont sparkle over the track like they could.
Your amazing, keep it up.
on Haunted by swindla007
The track is a little stiff for me. the drums could really use some rides and top lines to give them some ups, downs, roll and rhythm. Also the bass is a bangin idea but doesn't change through the track. Maybe Reaktor could give you some slightly different versions to pup into the mix to give it some variety.
Thanks for sharing man, really liked it.
on Celebration Song by PHILLIPJIGGA
The Ideas are fairly sound for a starting out producer. The use of fades, volume automation, crashes etc are all steps in the right direction. The melody created over the starting simple chord arraignment is good.
All the sounds need changing to be completely honest. drums, leeds, bass all of them.
Also fx, panning, chorus, delay, reverb all that stuff needs to be looked at.
The mixdown is very clean but you need to pick what sounds are 'THE' sounds and make everything fit around them, not make everything sound the same level. its a juggling act and 90% of track quality is sounds and the mix down. the other 10% is the mastering.
Thanks for sharing.
thanks for the love again
on The Club by sahilkhullar
on Night Mode by durtygoo
Not to sure what to say apart from practice practice practice.
on Test Future house OpsWarrior by OpsWarrior
what we testing?
on Autumn by MusicFly
Lovely sounds and sound design.
In an effort to get the track loud, it has made the whole track run very very hot. There is a lot of very low end in the bassdrum that could be swapped for headroom to give the track the volume you want and keep the sound less distorted. Some of the risers (Like the one at about 2:55) are rammed with sub bass and stealing the volume potential of the track.
Great track, like really good. but all the sounds are fighting for prime position in the listening space making it fatiguing to listen to and its running so hot the distortion is detracting.
on Berlin by giuliomusic
No what I mean is, Not everything is supposed to be the same volume. Its like a meal, You have the meat and the potatoes taking up most of the plate and the rest is there to garnish or compliment.
If you had the same amount of carrots, peas, sweatcorn that you did of the potatoes or meat, it would be a pretty weird meal..
Pick what you want to stand out and drop all the others in volume so they stop dominating the track.
on Bicep - Glue Chovich Remix by Chovich
on Slame - SUB-ZERO by slavaslame
great work man.
on THIS TIME by sanele127
The track starts off well, with the staple sounds of a Deep house track but the pads are not really a deep house thing. Deep house is a more bass, organ type of genre.
Have a look at the tracks by DJ S.K.T for an example of builds, break downs, sounds and arrangement.
Thanks for sharing dude.
on liquid nights by robotscot
The sounds are great the placement is great. top track.
Could benefit from an external mixdown and master to get the subs rolling and the width and air the track needs to sing.
One critique is the drum loop. it goes on through out the whole track and really stands out because of the bom bom chaa chaa.
The Chaaa chaaa bit really stands out and makes the track sound almost robotic and not humanised. some fills, rolls and changes would lift this to another level again.
Many thanks for sharing
Spuds
on Sync Diversity - Amor Prohibido-BBC remix by NikoLayZe
Its just a catchy hook or melody away from a really stand out track.
Thanks for sharing.
Peace
on Berlin by giuliomusic
First thing i notice about your mix is that everything is very loud and a little harsh in the top end.
The mix could do with you picking a dominant sound and making that the forefront of the track. For me its definitely not the synths, hits, FX and pads that are currently sitting right in your face in the mix.
Drums and bass are great though.
Thanks for sharing dude.
peace
on Harry Hockjne - ID UNMASTER by HarryHockjne
on Shuffle til you drop by prodbyKreeD
All you need to do is use the main mid/high bass sound you have already and copy the melody with a sub sine. job done.
If the bass doesn't work with just those elements then its more likely then not the bass melody that's the issue and not the bass sound itself.
on Dead Mad by prele24
on OscarMess-898 by OscarMess
There are a few volume and eq'ing issues here and there but the drum sounds and processing are the main problem and hold the track back from being great.
on Shake It by shocker1027
on basic edm Great Trumpet by Myusoff99
Thanks for sharing.
on The Golden Ratio by Nodog
Trance sounds need to be quite symbiotic and need to work, harmonise, play off each other like a 'Call & Answer'.
on Not Ready by Ludwigbroo
Thanks for sharing.
on Falling by angler234
Drum roles, white noise risers and falls, FX... all these things are your friend in making the transitions between parts less stale.
Thanks for sharing
on Falcon Trance 8 by EricMilligan
At 1:45, I had check because I thought I had pressed play on another track at the same time. The extra drums are very jarring and takes you out of the nice melodies you have going on.
Nice percussion at 2:36.
All round some good ideas just let down by synth presets, effects and some weird drum choices.
The mixdown could use a little tweaking too, with some more side chain and compression here and there to get the whole track moving and weaving with itself.
Thanks for sharing.
Spuds
I've kind of avoided using side chain compression because I'm very unsure about setting it up, although I have done it successfully in the past. I guess its like programming automation on tracks, once you get the hang of it, it isn't so scary.
No question that drums is a serious weak spot in my tracks generally. I tend to find a midi loop that seems to work and I get lazy and don't work on variation like I should. Your comment raises a different point, of course. Just a bad choice of extra drums.
As far as the lead sound is concerned, I think I know how to give it width in the mix, but not sure about movement, except to experiment with chorus or phaser effects?
Thanks again for your advice on this.
Eric