Honestly, despite understanding the theme behind the song title and Scootaloo, I think that this would do better without the Scootaloo samples -- or, at the very least, with less of them. It's just a bit intrusive to the listening experience imo.
The only other 'negative criticism' I have is that it was hard to feel the groove at the beginning of the track, but that being said (I use that phrase a lot, don't I?), I picked up a good head-bobbing before the drums even came in, so that might just be me.
Great piece, nice and chilllllll. I'm not even particularly a fan of Hendrix (though I respect his musical influence) and this was good.
FritzyBeat wrote:Well, I posted this in a thread a while back, and after getting some feedback on it, I re-mastered and mixed it to try and fix any problems people pointed out, and this was the result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_AYXdVovfsIts still my first venture into My Little Pony music, so try to be as critical as you can. I want to be able to improve after all don't I? XD
I can take prog house, but I'm not generally a fan of these kind of vocals... so when I say I dislike them, it's not personal, it's just me. I'll leave further critique of the vocals and such out because that's purely personal preference.
Very well-produced. I'm totally jealous for sure. Great composition as well, overall very smooth transitions, though the one from 2:27 to 2:31 seemed like it faded out a little fast. If that's what you were going for, it's fine (as I always say), but, again, personal preference here.
I lied about not saying anything more about the vocals. I'll admit the slight phone filter (or whatever) effect is a nice touch. I'm a sucker for that in music.
ArisingFlame wrote:I SO DID NOT MEAN TO CALL YOU FROSTSHART, BUT THAT SHIT WAS HILARIOUS
Heh.
https://soundcloud.com/t-jayson/bottle-up-snippet-v2
FL has started to go wonky on me so I though I'd save where I was and pick it up in a bit. The intro, 1st, and 2nd verses are yet to be recorded, so I just exported it from the bridge after the 2nd verse on.
Urk. Just realized how loud the vocals are on the 2nd chorus there. Gotta fix that.
Actually, I'd say the vocals are a little loud in the mix from the start. From around 0:50 to 1:10, though, they're placed better in the mix imo (and on my headphones, can't check with my speakers 'cause of sleeping parental units).
Also, again, won't mention anything more about vocals because I'm not a fan of this post-hardcore-ish style of singing.
The drop synths you pulled at 0:49 were, well, to put it bluntly, random and kind of out of nowhere. Other than the more digital-sounding drums, there was nothing prior to that part letting us know that this wasn't going to be a straight up post-hardcore/hard rock song. I don't have any specific examples to suggest, but somehow introduce the electronic element (that is, not the specific synths, but just some kind of electronic music sound in general) earlier in the song so it doesn't seem so sudden. I hope that made sense.
Stop that. Stop being good at prog house. Jealous. :(
Something about the drum roll at 1:30 had me feeling like it was a bit empty. Maybe some kind of sine drop (or similar effect) after the roll would go well? That's, as I've said a lot through this post, though, just personal taste for me.
Having the same melody from 1:40 through 2:45 without change (other than risers and claps, from what I heard) was a bit repetitive, though. If the chords
did change, I apologize, I'm bad at hearing notes a bit, heh...
Still, I guess I don't have much criticism on the master, so if that was all you're really tweaking, sounds good. :)
stakeout poni wrote:https://soundcloud.com/stakeoutpunch/broken-christmas
Your kick and snare could do with a bit more punch to them, unless you were keeping them a bit more in the background just for the beat, in which case the snare could still do with a bit more presence.
I really like the overall idea of this, though. Kind of dissonant at parts but not in a sense of actual clashing or being out of tune or anything, but like... you know what I mean. I'm sure you do. It's what you were going for, I'm sure. And man, those crazy gritty crashes and reverb booms. :D
It could do with being mastered better, but otherwise, I totally dug that.
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One of my friends has gotten into the producing game fairly recently, and he asked me to remix the second track he's made so far. I tried my best to go above and beyond what I've done so far, and while I don't think I quite managed to achieve
that much, I am fairly happy with what I did. HE EVEN MADE ME SONG ART OMG
https://soundcloud.com/dr_plague/stormy ... plague-oniYes, I did reuse that growl, but I'm thinking of putting together an oni-themed EP what with having already named that growl my "oni growl"~~
bad excuses Nick bad excusesSo yeah, lemme know what you think. I wanna say the melody I introduced about halfway through (around 2:30 or whatever) is in the same key and chord progression and what not, but I'm not really sure considering how simple the melody the original was. I just kind of made what sounded cool. Definitely would like to know on that.