Roast My Track

Just made an EDM track and I wanna know what you guys think about it. If you like the genre but don't like the track TELL ME. I won't bite your head off, I promise. Bass doesn't hit as hard as I'd like because I don't understand how exporting works yet. It hits harder when I'm editing it. Still figuring shit out.

https://soundcloud.com/user-30112788.../s-H3qrezalyAI

I like it.

it sounds super 80s and i like it as a work in progress
- bass needs to be punchier (i don't even think its an exporting issue)
- no drop/doesn't rly go anywhere (but ya its a 2 min song)
- could use a bit more drum

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Originally Posted by Renegade

I like it.

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Thank you.

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Originally Posted by naz

it sounds super 80s and i like it as a work in progress
- bass needs to be punchier (i don't even think its an exporting issue)
- no drop/doesn't rly go anywhere (but ya its a 2 min song)
- could use a bit more drum

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I'm having trouble getting the bassy synth and the kick to play nice. They overlap a bit and clip when they're too compressed. I wasn't sure if the bass was hot enough. I'll EQ it up a little.

I'll also crank the sidechain compression to get the kick to punch through the other instruments a little more. I think maybe I was a little too conservative with it.

As for form I'm not really sure where I wanna go with it. Subtlety is important but I don't want it to be boring.

I really appreciate the input. Thank you.

what program(s) are u using ?

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Originally Posted by naz

what program(s) are u using ?

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FL Studio 20, the kick is a generic 808 I doctored up and then lower synths are Morphine and GMS (whatever trash synths FL Studio had stock, I wanna learn how to make them less shit). The main plucky instrument is Serum.

soundcloud is fucking butchering it lmao what is this trash

I like it.

I could see it working as some kind of background music for a game but for it to be a stand alone piece it probably needs a bit more complexity.

There was a thing I read a long time ago where some psychologists were able to predict if songs were good or not based on their compression ratio. Their findings were something along the lines that humans are drawn to very specific levels of complexity. Too complex and the mind cant sort it so it just sounds like noise while not complex enough and people loose interest. They also suggested that could be why remixes can be so much more complex than the original song because they play with pre-existing patterns so the mind can sort the noise easier.

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It sounds like an old video game music. Not bad at all.

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Originally Posted by Helz

I like it.

I could see it working as some kind of background music for a game but for it to be a stand alone piece it probably needs a bit more complexity.

There was a thing I read a long time ago where some psychologists were able to predict if songs were good or not based on their compression ratio. Their findings were something along the lines that humans are drawn to very specific levels of complexity. Too complex and the mind cant sort it so it just sounds like noise while not complex enough and people loose interest. They also suggested that could be why remixes can be so much more complex than the original song because they play with pre-existing patterns so the mind can sort the noise easier.

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there is a counter point to this with simplicity in melodies i.e billie eyelish

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Originally Posted by bakermir

there is a counter point to this with simplicity in melodies i.e billie eyelish

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This is true

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Originally Posted by FrostByte

soundcloud is fucking butchering it lmao what is this trash

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even on wav?

where the FUCK is the bass matthew?