KEM
The TENET Guy
My new track "A Pirates Life for Me" is out now!! As always, constructive criticism and feedback is greatly appreciated and welcomed, enjoy!!
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My new track "A Pirates Life for Me" is out now!! As always, constructive criticism and feedback is greatly appreciated and welcomed, enjoy!!
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Nice track!
The bottom end was very boomy and quite a bit too loud for me.
Cool/fun track!
Really liked some of the material you have going on here and I would love to hear the different sections connect a bit more. Think it would really drive a lot of your melodies home more! Also, I agree with Caleb, that the low-end is a bit 'boomy', but that is an easy fix
Hi there,
Thanks for sharing your track. I think your first idea is quite cool and gives or sets the vibe. Though I have to say also that I think you could structure your piece a little more in form. There are also sections where you instanly drop a lot of elements which created motion before which causes like that I feel you end the idea. While that is not wrong to do, I feel you should take a bit more time in developing your first statement before going other places. Orchestrationally you are very string / low brass focussed. A little idea would be to hand over the melody to different voices, why not using also at times Woodwinds supporting at least your melody? Or even overtaking it? building orchestrational contrast and di versity creates and keeps the interest even if you keep on riding on your same idea.
Did you sketch out the track before? Maybe on a Piano? I don´t know if you work like that, but I do that all the time in order to keep control about the core idea element and structure.
One little last thing: Those ethnic flutes at 45 seconds around are quite cool though I feel they are a bit of context regarding your vibe you set in the beginning. You know the title of your track reminds me of course that you maybe want to make that pirates of the carribean thing. But think a little about that reference and how that track I mentioned utilizes strong chord progressions which not only is supported by a driving motion but also by its easy to follow its harmonic construction. Maybe an idea would be to deconstruct those harmonic progressions and pastiche a little bit that to make an exercise for yourself. You don´t need to exactly copy the progression by itself but be aware of the way how the melody builds up with the progressions.
Your harmony in the track is a bit loose therefore doesn´t really build up a harmonic tension with a pleasing resolution. It hangs more there which makes it feel more like a gesture instead of a motif which creates also harmonic momentum together, which I guess you are after. My advice: Learn more basic composition.
I bet this is mixed on headphones. Mix is not good, too much reverb, bad eq-ing (too much low and low mid freqs and no proper highs). On top you maximized the volume to heavens, hitting limiter or compressor to much and creating unwanted distortion and clipping.
From artistic side, I agree with Alexander, spot on feedback.
iZotope's Tonal Balance Control is a very useful tool to determine...well, tonal balance...when mixing, especially if your room isn't perfect or your ears aren't experienced.
I believe it only comes bundled with Ozone though.
Thanks! This was my first time using HZ Strings and the cello/basses were incredibly loud and the low end just didn't feel tight even when I turned down all of the far mics, that's probably what attributes to the "boomy" sound, it wasn't what I intended, but I couldn't find a way to fix it, I'll have to play around with it more.
I appreciate you taking the time to write all of this out! This is stuff I'm working on all the time, I know almost absolutely nothing about theory which I feel has been a HUGE hindrance to my progress as a composer, so it's something I've been trying to really focus on as of late, as far as orchestration that's something I'm always studying and trying to improve on a lot, so if you have anything that you'd recommend to help me learn more theory/orchestration feel free to let me know!
I don't know how to mix haha, like not at all