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hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:18 pm

a melodic trance track.... not yet finished 100%,
arrangement could be better.

I used many prophets in this track ...

Its sad that my 12 DSPs do quite fast limit me in polyphony and different sounds....

Post by **hubird** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:54 pm

love it

but you really should take a look at the lows.
The kick doesn't have a punch (at 80 Hz) or is too softly mixed-in to hear it.
And the bass, well maybe the same.
headphone mix...?

Nice track anyway, I'm jalous at the melodical qualities

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:12 pm

hubrid thanks for your feedback !

you are right it WAS a headphone mix....
I checked back with my speakers after mixing ( I got really strange room conditions here and strange neighbours) and changed the kick to this soft one...

the original kick was very hard....
anyway here is the original headphone mix....

if this sounds better my headphones are better than my roomaudience-speaker combination ...

Post by **hubird** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:29 pm

hehe, yes it is a harder kick

try to put more U in it, like in ufo, instead of the prominent A like in after.
Or keep the A but do the U

The kick makes the compressor punping a bit, I would reduce the kick's volume a bit (minus 2-3 db) or reduce the level of compression, the kick is loud enough (in the A-part that is).
Or use a multiband compressor like the Optimaster, to treat the lows apart.

cheers

hubird

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:28 am

Is that inspired by a Jean M Jarre tune by any chance..?

Very nice

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:54 am

Counterparts wrote:Is that inspired by a Jean M Jarre tune by any chance..?

Very nice

not really or in a direct way.... but I love Jean Michael Jarre ( oxygen, great ) and surely I`am inspired by the classics.

I think basically all trance/techno stuff evolved from these pioneers of synthesis (Tangerine Dream, J.M.Jarre,...)
And I love all that stuff, regardless if it has a groove or not.

The newer generation techno/trance stuff has more or less completly lost its original spirit. ( just combining the same virus patch with the same melody in a slightly different arrangement isn`t really cool )

I`m trying to bring back the original synth spirit into my sound.

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:14 am

hubird wrote:hehe, yes it is a harder kick
try to put more U in it, like in ufo, instead of the prominent A like in after.
Or keep the A but do the U

The kick makes the compressor punping a bit, I would reduce the kick's volume a bit (minus 2-3 db) or reduce the level of compression, the kick is loud enough (in the A-part that is).
Or use a multiband compressor like the Optimaster, to treat the lows apart.

cheers

hubird

what is thing with the "A" and th "U" ?

what about an "O" ?
hehe

but you are right the kick/bass section isn`t perfect at all. But the main problem here is my monitoring is not good enough. So finding the sound is not that easy...

Post by **hubird** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:23 am

hifiboom wrote:
hubird wrote:But the main problem here is my monitoring is not good enough. So finding the sound is not that easy...

try a cd you know that it's sounding good, and take that as a reference

but you do that already I guess