• Search & Destroy - DnB track I made
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Finally getting the hang of FL Studio for real. So I made this. Not entirely happy with it, but it sounds decent I guess. [url]http://www.esnips.com/doc/ddc3e8f3-b87e-4866-87e4-0f796658fb50/Search--Destroy[/url] C&C turn me into a happy panda. :3:
[QUOTE=Larry_G;19743029]Finally getting the hang of FL Studio for real. So I made this. Not entirely happy with it, but it sounds decent I guess. [URL]http://www.esnips.com/doc/ddc3e8f3-b87e-4866-87e4-0f796658fb50/Search--Destroy[/URL] C&C turn me into a happy panda. :3:[/QUOTE] To be honest it doesn't sound much like DnB (in my opinion). The drums don't even feel like a major part of it.
[QUOTE=gast0r;19743087]To be honest it doesn't sound much like DnB (in my opinion). The drums don't even feel like a major part of it.[/QUOTE] I had a hard time mastering this one properly. Other instruments are overpowering the drums, I'll try to fix it. :saddowns:
The bass is [B]Way[/B] to loud
The intro is booooring, you build vitually no tension before the drop and that synth line gets repetitive super fast. The bass is pretty boring too, when you just use solid long bass notes like that the rest of the tune has to be pretty ace otherwise you're not going to have any groove at all. One of the key elements of dnb is a bassline that grooves well with your drums. The mix needs a LOT of work too. that plucky synth is way too high in the mix, kick and snare are almost non existent, and the entire thing sound totally squashed. Turn off the plugs you've got on your master channel, and then turn the gain on all your channels down all the way, bring ONLY your drums up and then mix the drums so that your master is peaking around -10dB with all the drums playing. Then mix everything else around your drums, and don't touch the faders for the drums at all. If you start turning other shit up and the drums need to be louder, turn other shit down instead of turning the drums up. When you're making dnb a clean mix is incredibly important, especially since everything is so much closer together at 170+ bpm.
[QUOTE=KmartSqrl;19767681]The intro is booooring, you build vitually no tension before the drop and that synth line gets repetitive super fast. The bass is pretty boring too, when you just use solid long bass notes like that the rest of the tune has to be pretty ace otherwise you're not going to have any groove at all. One of the key elements of dnb is a bassline that grooves well with your drums. The mix needs a LOT of work too. that plucky synth is way too high in the mix, kick and snare are almost non existent, and the entire thing sound totally squashed. Turn off the plugs you've got on your master channel, and then turn the gain on all your channels down all the way, bring ONLY your drums up and then mix the drums so that your master is peaking around -10dB with all the drums playing. Then mix everything else around your drums, and don't touch the faders for the drums at all. If you start turning other shit up and the drums need to be louder, turn other shit down instead of turning the drums up. When you're making dnb a clean mix is incredibly important, especially since everything is so much closer together at 170+ bpm.[/QUOTE] I'll look into it, I'm still pretty unexperienced when it comes to mastering a song properly. Thanks for your help, though.
Needs moar mastering ples
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