Starting to make Drum and Bass, what do you think? (Preview) - General

[url]http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/306911[/url] I usually make electro, but when you're making electro listening to the same beat and mastering it gets irritating that when you hear your song enough times you get sick of it and just stop working on it, but when i work on DnB it feels fresh everytime i hear it. Never really made Drum and Bass before, this is basically a first. What do you think? ( I used FL Studio, oh and i don't think i like the bass)

Sounds great! Just needs a better bass.

[QUOTE=Xyrec;19859120]Sounds great! Just needs a better bass.[/QUOTE] No, looks like you need new headphones, the bass is fine.

Pretty good, but a little boring. Mix it up a little bit after the first half of the song.

[QUOTE=MortalK0mbat;19861462]No, looks like you need new headphones, the bass is fine.[/QUOTE] Nah it does need a little more. Also seeing as it's Drum and Bass

The reason the bass sounds weak is because it's just following that main synth line and it's not really grooving with the drums on it's own. It sounds like some of your bass notes are off key too actually, or you've got some funky (the bad kind of funky) detuning on the bass that's making it sound that way. That definitely needs to be fixed up. That synth line gets really repetitive too, it's just the same bit going through the whole tune (what you have so far at least). Use a cut down version in the intro or something, and change it up every 16-32 bars during the main groove. The whole thing gets repetitive in fact, you need more going on in the song to spice things up a bit, putting a random tom fill every 8 bars does not do enough to break the repetition, especially when it's the same fill at the end of every 8. Bring in some different instrumentation, do some different drum edits, do SOMETHING. As of right now it really does feel like you just took an 8 bar loop and copy pasted it for 1:50 worth of song, deleted the drums and the sub from the intro, added a snare rush and called it a day. The kick is getting pretty lost in the mix, and it feels really flacid because of that. It needs more weight to it, and a bit more high-end click. Your sub could do with a bit more volume too (not too much) also make sure that your sub is mono because you don't want any stereo on your really low freqs (you can get all sorts of nasty phasing problems, especially on bigger systems). Obviously you're not done with the this yet by any means so post up something more complete when you get there and I'll let you know what else still needs work. One thing I'd definitely advise though would be listening to some of your favorite dnb tracks and taking note of what they're doing to change things up and trying to apply those techniques to what you're doing.

its pretty good and works as a loop but could use some deeper variety