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[{dj-N} Theory of Everything 2 (FULL)]

Pretty damn catchy. I like the piano, gives it a nice contrast.
I feel like the snare is a bit too boxy and needs a bit more high end, but that could be your choice. The kick has a bit too much high end for my taste (the very very high-end, I'd tame that a bit)

I like what you're doing, the switches between styles and tempos really grabbed my attention. Nice sound design too, I like how you cycle between synths and that they are never playing at the same time. Really shows how much effort you put into the crafting of each sound.

Keep it up!

[Drunken Sailor]

Pretty damn catchy. The mixdown needs a lot of work though. There's a lot of stuff fighting for your attention, I'd give the vocals more space I can hardly hear them. I'd bring the stuff that is just there to add detail to the track more to the background and the important elements to the front.

But other than that, I enjoyed it a lot. Interesting mix of genres. Usually this type of song is not accompanied by electronic instruments, I liked that about it. Keep it up!

zanaelf responds:

Thanks for the feedback on the song :-)

[Test Theme 2]

Crazy is an understatement, haha. Man this is some trippy stuff.

Radius responds:

I know.

[circular shift left]

Most certainly okay for a track that you wrote in a couple of hours! I like the dreamy vibe.
DL+Faved, good work.

bryce responds:

appreciated

[Mastered Love (Demo extended version Album more than Soon)]

Modern UK Hardcore/Happy Hardcore is one of my favourite genres. The mixdown is pretty damn good. I feel like the chord progression might be a bit too cliché, I'd change the inversions so it sounds less cliché.

The drop gave me exactly what I craved for in the intro. You did a really good job in having that contrast between the two sections. Nice work!

LumpyDumpyBuuu responds:

thank you very much.

[Lights Have Faded]

Not what I expected when I saw "Dubstep" in the genre information.

I won't judge the mix too harshly, because it's unfinished. But I feel like the vocals sound like they are on top of the track, they don't completely blend together.

The snare sounds a bit too dry for my taste, I'd like to hear it go on for a bit longer, so it sounds more like it belongs in the same space as the vocals.

But as a demo, I feel like this could really work well. The backing track sounds nice and the vocal-hook is very memorable! This is one of those tracks that will sit in my head for at least a week, lol.

I would really like to hear a finished version of this, with a proper mixdown.

[EMBL3M - Shining Emotion (Thexta Remix)]

Those drums are really loud compared to the rest of the elements in your mix. I'd bring the pads up more and there needs to be much more sub so it melts away the listener when the drop kicks in.

Nice sound design though! That's a slamming snare sample and the kick has that nice roundness to it. The chord progression really has that melancholic vibe to it. It's just a bit of a shame that it gets eaten away by the drums. The choir (or pad?) has that sad "yearning" element to it.

If you know what the strong points of the track are, give them some more attention.

[Solarwind]

I feel like this could be a 70s punk anthem or something, it really has that kind of vibe to it. But then mixed with Drum N Bass elements. Really interesting!

I would work a bit on the mixdown, it sounds like there's a lot of overlapping elements. Try to build your tracks by fitting every element in it's own frequency range (giving every element it's own place).

In terms of uniqueness, you have a lot to offer. I mean, how often do you hear high shivering strings in a slamming DnB track? Keep it up!

Skybrid responds:

Got it. I'll take your advices, thank you! I really glad you enjoined that, I am doing my best ;)

[A Static Soul]

The overall mixdown sounds a little bit messy, how much did you compress the overall track?
Or maybe you like the sound of it, but then I would add some parallel compression on the elements that you want to be compressed instead of compressing the master.
But if you want to have it loud, I would look into "soft-clipping", which is basically what all the big DnB producers use to get their stuff loud (from what I've learned).

There's a bit of mid frequencies that I'm missing, right now it sounds like it's mostly bass and treble with a scoop in the mids, while this might sound cool on your speakers, there's a lot of sound-systems (phones, mp3-players or hi-fis) that add bass, treble and compression to the sound, so if you're mixing down your track it would be better to keep the sound fairly neutral.

(So I wouldn't go for the hi-fi sound, but for a more neutral sound)

I really like the synths you programmed for this track. I'm a big fan of FM-basslines, what did you use for that?
The overal "flow" of the track is very nice, super catchy. The beat fits perfectly with the rest in the track.
Clearly there's a lot of attention to detail, with all the little fx and sounds in the background. It keeps me engaged. And you're doing this with only one motif essentially, good job!

SilentShadow97 responds:

Compression wise I've compressed (Fruity Limiter) certain instruments/synths separately depending on what I felt needed it and popped a maximizer (Maximus) on the master, maybe I was messing with the mids a little too much. Glad you liked it overall, these are the types of comments that mean a lot to me, thank you! :)

[Modulation Error]

I like it when the bass kicks in. Very catchy!
Nice mix-down too. That drop is so catchy that I'd love to hear it come back one more time before the song ends.

You might want to introduce some of that stuff earlier or shorten the intro.
48 seconds might be a bit too long of a period to catch the attention of the listener (that's often when I see people losing attention).