so my track is done
DJ KartoffelSalat
Join Date: 2010-07-22 Member: 72672Members
Join Date: 2010-07-22 Member: 72672Members
4 beta versions later and a month after i promised.....its done...mind ye im new at it and just trying to find my sound now....so if youll help me finding a place to host my tracks (preferably free) as my myspace artist page isnt working right ill post it for yall to critique and otherwise enjoy
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I'm of the same opinion as Crispix.
Right now, I'd rate it a 2/10. If you followed my advice, I'd rate it at least a 6/10.
You have the same lick played like 50 gazillion times, then does another lick 50 gazillion more, and so on. It becomes boring pretty quick. Music is just like telling a story. Build it up, climax, and bring it home, dude. There are plenty of good examples out there, both instrumental music and electronic.
Okay, so you're entitled to give your opinion but simply saying "It's awful" just strikes me as incredibly rude and immature. This is some ones work, something they've spent time making and having some arsehole like yourself barging in here with your "opinion" is incredibly annoying.
At least have the damn decency to say why you disliked it.
QFT.
To add constructive criticism....
I'm not a fan of techno much, so i'm afraid I can't say anything positive there except maybe shorten up the song a bit, and make one part for aliens and one part for marines. And play your alien samples during the alien bit, and the marine samples during the marine bit.
You would want to the marine bit to sound very organized but maybe a little mechanical as well. The aliens should have some sort of trancy but "tight" beat - your current mix is WAY to high BPM for this... and matching your BPM for marines and the aliens might get tricky. Good luck if you try this.
During the song, if you had samples of a full fledged attach, like a skulk biting a couple times while you hear some shooting, then the marine death sound, with an alien chuckle.
Keep in mind that you would need to keep these sort of things at a little lower volume level than the song.
Here's an iffy one... If you could record a couple of good intense battles, take a second or so with clear decent voices and mix them in...
Just remember - your mixes are going to have to tell some sort of story... You don't want to repeat yourself, and you don't want to remain on one subject too long.
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/mattplanner/padded-echo-chamber" target="_blank">Example of what I'm talking about</a>
Okay I downloaded a song against my better judgement. "Natural Selection" obviously. Yes, it's repetitive. The solution is not add more sound samples from NS2. Right now the song is 1 chord played for 4 minutes, and then the same pattern transposed upwards for the last 2 minutes. You need to figure out a few more chords and instead of just adding a sample every 8 measures or whatever, change the notes that are playing to the notes from the next chord. It's called harmonic motion, it's pretty much required to make a song interesting. The easier solution if that doesn't compute is to make your song 1:30 instead of 6:00, because you probably have enough variation already to sustain interest for around a minute. Id also suggest using the samples in a more rhythmic way, but thats just personal preference.
At least have the damn decency to say why you disliked it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
because it's dull, uninspired and sounds bad.
That's nice! Quite chilly, but I like it.
Agreed. And add some rhythmic complexity, too.
OP, what are some of your influences? (so we know more of where you are coming from)
Don't quit your dayjob though :)
aint mine mang, it's just an example of how it's easy to listen to people's music without downloading anything, via soundcloud. "chilly" is a good way to describe it tho.