Spudsy

Nice build up with great ideas but the drop just didn't pay it off for me. The track lost a lot of energy after that and the kick/bass sounds (while clean) didn't hit and carry the track.

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Need some high frequency percussion (wood block, cow bell etc..) and some higher up cymbal/crash/hat sounds. then with a nice mixdown this would sing.

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Great track, all the right things in all the right places.

All I could critique was. Sounds get a little samey by the second drop so some sort of switch up in either the main riff or an extra leed sound, white noise sound etc.. would help differentiate the second drop from the first and built the energy up without having to do too much work.

Thanks for sharing.

Hi,

nice ideas although its all a little 'one tone' and doesn't really rise or fall anywhere.

Injecting stripped back parts and build ups/drops will help a lot with this. It will also give the track breathing room to allow you to add effects to improve the audio quality of the sounds you have used. at the moment it sounds a little like an one volume squashed electronic video game roar.

Thanks for sharing though man :)

Nice track, Like the sounds you have used.

Only thing I can really say is, you need to keep an eye on your Audio house keeping. By that I mean there are a couple of times when the crash and another part of the sample sound a little jarring (It happens a couple of times but Like the 2:17 point in the track)
The eq/Mixing needs some work so the bass/Piano can be heard a little better. Also the Audio sounds like it is being stretched beyond its capabilities and is breaking up. If you cant get the sample to sound right in time then cut it into its hits and play it through a sampler with some reverb to fill in any audio gaps between the samples.

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Ive Made and mastered loads of tracks on £40 sony in ear headphones and never had any issues.

If the track doesn't sound the way you need it to its more down to a practice thing then a 'Headphone' thing tbh.

I know an amazing producer who creates and masters on some logitech PC speakers.

Track is ok, needs more work on the eq side of things so everything has its own space in the sound spectrum.

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The Ideas are good but it all seems really loud and hammered together.

Bang, here are the drums.
Bang, here are the synths.
Bang, here is an Arp.

House music has no dynamic range really to speak of so we have to create the appearance of dynamic range by using fades, Filters, panning, Pads, Volume, Builds, Whoosh's, Drops, Risers, Drum Rolls. E.T.C.

The subtleties and nuances of the audio get lost in translation because of the volume.

The kick also has a pretty huge bass overhang that is muddying up the track. Its like 'Kick, woow' Kick, woow'

Its fine to have a huge kick but kick is bass so you need to either cut the bass out of everything else or tighten the kick up.

If you do keep the Kick long you may need to tune it/Change it to fit the track. Put a guitar tuner plugin on the kick and it will tell you the kicks key. Use that as a starting point to tune the kick.

The vocal is swimming in reverb, send the vocal to a send group and put a reverb on it through there. Make sure you put a eq after the reverb to cut all the bass out of the reverb tail.

A way of creating space without reverb is to make 2 extra copies of the vocal. pan one full left and one full right. pull the left one back a couple of milliseconds, push the right one forward a couple of milliseconds. That will create a phasey reverb type sound. Then mix those 2 in with the dry vocal.

Hope some of this helps.

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heya bro, Another nice track.

Again some of the drum sounds may not be giving you the best bed to lay the track on. also quite a few volume changes out of left field.

Good stuff though dude. really enjoyed it.

Heya dude,

All the ideas are there its just a case of finding the rite sounds and using some effect techniques to get the best out of the sounds.

Really pretty track though.

Thanks for sharing.

wow, the intro means business lol.

Nice track man.

Good use of sounds, sound design and synths.

Love it fella.

Only thing I would say is, try to either turn some of the volumes down or ease off the master compression in the quiet drop down parts. that way when the drop comes in it gives the the listeners ears a break and creates more of a big dynamic impact when the track comes back in.

Good work dude.

Hi Dude,

Not sure if it is the processing but The kick sounds a little too time stretched and is breaking up.

Great chords buddy, really nice. Shaker sounds great and the piano is sweet.

The way the track builds is excellent.

Loved it man, Thanks for sharing.

The track is beautiful mate. With the right vocal and a nice clean master this would get signed to a chill out label, no probs.

Bangin, love it bro :)

https://youtu.be/uPuaIJrhdss

Well, you did ask for critique.

The drums are too weak. Drums and/or bass underpin most or all electronic music.

This Caspa track even though it's mellow still has drums that hit, have space and do there job.

However you look at it opinions, unfortunately rarely trump facts.

I wouldn't have replied again but you were so protective of your end result what was the point in asking for people's input?

Hey dude,

First thing that strikes me is the track is great but needs some work before the mastering process had begun.

The sounds are nice and they all work well together and all the elements are there and could come together to make the track.

Your snare sound is good but the kick is a little weak, dub step kick tends to hit quite hard and have a 'pffft' style tail to it (check out redneks stuff on youtube)

The drums as a whole could use multiband compression and exciting. Think of it as bringing out certain sound elements in the drums and then bringing them into focus with the multiband exciter.

once you have done that some room reverb on the drums and on the track as a whole followed will gel the track together.

New york style compression could work well on the drums group and the bass group to give them some harmonics to fill the frequency spectrum a bit.

Thanks for sharing dude, tight track.

Hey dude,

Instrumental is ok tbh, few eqing issues here n there (too much low end on sounds) but nothing drastic.

Her voice is nice man a few things to try though, is keep her voice to just breakdowns that way she has her own platform to speak because she gets lost in the track when she speaks over the main bits. A nice 1 minute breakdown with a gradual build back up would work wonders for her spoken word bits.

Also slightly side chain compressing the pads/synths against her voice when she speaks will make her stand out more. if you have a stereo delay device put it on the vocal channel, set the left side at 1 millisecond and the right at about 10-15 milliseconds and put the dry/wet all the way to wet. that way she will also have width in the mix.

Cheers for sharing.

Yeah grados are awesome headphones. If you have the newer 'E' version they do have some low end but not a huge amount due to the Grado's using open back designs in there headphones. Which may lead to over compensation in the low end.

beautiful headphones for pianos/vocals/strings etc.

Yeah I loved the track dude and thank you for checking out my music, please feel free to comment on anything man.

Peace

Alright bro. Rite first things first, finished production quality aside this track is awesome.

I only say that because the sounds have loads of bass on them and there are alot of sounds competing for space.

Good £50-£100 headphones will give you an idea of what to take off with the eq. (Nothing by beats for gods sake)

peace

This reminds me of something you would hear in an episode of goosebumps when the kids find out the neighbour is a vampire or something lol.

nice one dude.

heya bro, good first attempt at a deep house track.

Couple of things,

Deep house is normally 118-125 bpm, this seems a little fast.

The beat may be the issue because i think its like the Disclosure track 'You and Me' which is 130bpm

Loads of bass on everything cut everything of at 160hz except the bass and the kick. then use a side chain compressor on the bass so it moves out the way everytime the kick hits.

also start to pan a few things about from the midrange up,a rough rule of thumb is the higher the frequencys the wider they can be in the mix.

Cut bass of your reverb and delays.

Thanks for sharing dude.

Really pretty track man loved the drum sounds and the chords. I think its a little more straight house/progressive house then Deep but really nice work, loved it.

Awesome track bro. it just needs some eq work and some tidying up and its all done.

Thanks for sharing man

Good ides bro. needs a little eqing and some subtle panning on the sounds to give it some space.

Also the kick is a little long and bassy, could use a gate to shorten it up and some low cut to take the subbyness out of it.

Thanks for sharing man

Not bad dude. needs some eq work here and there and some panning of sounds but its nice man

thanks for sharing

Nice one Georgie.. really good stereo panning and placement of sounds mate..