Blindzoom

Surely an improvement, im glad you took the time to make a better intro and outro. I think this track has a great potential, i love the source and your take on it is brilliant, but it definitevly miss that "pro" touch. I'm no pro, i'm struggling myself in the attempt to produce something that meets OC standards, i'm pretty sure that mod will point out that your mix miss some clarity. On the arrangement side i think this is ok, i may suggest the introduction of a litlle break like Magellanic said, maybe before the 2'00'' that is the part with the biggest pathos. Keep working on this, i hope someone more expert than me can post some suggestion to make this one awesome:)

You have my sword Chiwalker, this track is beautiful. I f*****g love the breath pad, the plucked synth,and when the piano makes his short feeatures in the track my ears says "Yes!":) Looking forward to see this on the homepage. Edit: i subscribed to tindeck, but i can't get a download link for the .mp3. Has it been removed or am i doing something wrong?

Awesome, awesome work, it's a pleasure to listen. Thanks for giving Lolo some love:)

Updating. kick was redone and i've resolved the overcompression troubles http://soundcloud.com/blindzoom/holding-wip-06-03-2012

Thanks a lot for your advice and your appreciation! Do'n't know if it's true, but i surely will try my best:) I'm not sure to undertsand what you're talking about when you point at a rythm clash, surely it's my ignorance,however i'm switching back to work in progress and i will put my ears at work in figuring out what's wrong. Last 3 months have been truly bad IRL for me, but now seems like i'll have more free time\clear mind to put into this hobby, i really want to do this good. To do list: Intro is good, don't touch it:) Kick is crap, the only thing i can say is that i tried a couple of different mastering configurations since i switched to mod review, and both of them were more focused on "leaving the center" as it is, giving more power to the drums and consequentially an improvement in the rythm itself. I don't know if i'm gonna change the kick sample itself, building a new one from scratch,or giving the actual one a different equing. Transition into 2.30, i think i'll poimt to something less abruting and more fluid Overcompression: probably this problem will resolve itself while i'm trying different mastering setups. The problem at 4.15 is a problem of the mix itself, i put a reverse cymbal on an almost infinite ratio sidechain over the mix, it was one of the latest thing i added to the mix,i wanted a single sound to "break" the track before the outro, but seems like it was a bad idea (and probably its volume is too loud, so it cracked a bit too much when i mastered the track).I'll try lower it down and maybe giving a lower attack\longest release to the sidechain Repetiveness:the only point i was quite sure to have done a decent job was in giving the track multiple variations, but hell! not enough! I can promise you nothing, if inspiration come the track will change. Sorry for the long post, it's just a long way of say thank you all, i'm back to WIP and i will make treasure of you advice.

Well it's cute, but too minimal and all sounds feel already heard. The part between 1.09 and 1.20 felt very poor imho, and overall the whole track sounds like a long uninteresting intro to the last 30 seconds,which are decent, but you have already listened to 3 minutes of the same stuff before it comes in, so the price is not worthy. Pic up the last 30 seconds as an intro, and see what's coming next?

And finally i had time to do a proper mastering: http://soundcloud.com/blindzoom/holding-final-mastered3 and now i truly like how it sounds. I'm adding this to first post and leave it for some days before turning to mod review, please give me all your opinions!

Sorry for answering this late, but i've been busy lately. yesterday i (finally) had time to work a little bit on the remix,i've tried to change the main synth, but in the end i like how the original one sound and fits in the mix. If you can do a sf2 bank, i'll glad to give it a try! However, here's the latest version, i think it's better than the last one: http://soundcloud.com/blindzoom/holding-final-rekicked

Thanks a lot, this might be very useful. Putting this on the top of the mix is a bit drastic, but i'm curious to try this on some synths alone. Very well made patches, thank you again!

Thanks brian, i really appreciate it. wow, quite a badass synth out there, and pretty complex too.I'll try and do something similar, but i don't know how i'm gonna fit in the mix. Just changing the main kick gave the result of melting the track witout ann appropriate re-equing, if i change the main synth with something so big, i'll probably have to redo the whole eq:)

Nope, reason Edit: if you post a sample of how your synthy sound, i can try and recreate it in reason

Please go ahead and make yorseflf at home, i'm curious to hear what you'll do!

Well it was a pleasure to listen, bright and wide. I have to fully agree with what Magellanic said, except for the snare\clap part, i like how it sounds wide and far. What i wish you can change is the main lead starting a 0.30.Try somenthing more direct and powerful,something less "liquid", with little to none panning

Well man, it took me all the afternoon, i've tried to do my best, i hope this is the type of hoover you meant.I also took the opportunity and changed the hi-string sample http://soundcloud.com/blindzoom/holding-my-thoughts-in-my

The major part of my friends which have listened to this said that the bassdrum was too invasive (thus very little of them are into electronic music), however thaks for your opinion, i'll try and get a shot at it. The big problem is that in this version i had the chance of getting a semi-professional mastering from a guy i know, and i don't know if i'll have the chance to get another one, so i consider this my final version. Here you can hear a version i mastered myself, and it's clear that my mastering skills (and probably also equipment) are not at the same level. http://soundcloud.com/blindzoom/final-fantasy-7-holding-my Right now i'm focusing a little more on tutorials about mastering,maybe in the future i shall do a better work.

A years long in-the-making track:)(but finally finished) Source Latest Version (13th april 2014) https://www.dropbox.com/s/owyveega1eoxzny/Holding_M_13.4_v3.mp3 Reviewed N°2: https://soundcloud.com/blindzoom/holding-my-thoughts-in-my Reviewed N°1 http://youtu.be/bo_gE_9B76g