ShadowRaz

Ok so, as i browsed Spinnin' Records website, i spotted an remix contest which was going on currently and i was interested to participate it. I literally just now, finished that particular long project and uploaded it to soundcloud if i were to get feedback on it and or notice something wrong in it and possibly change something and re-upload before i actually add it to contest as it should be as best as it could be at that moment. So here's the link: Have any opinions/advice on any details about anything?

Ok so i posted the track already to my soundcloud: And already am working on other projects, just took a screen capture of two of latest ones i've worked on: What do you think of them? any room for huge improvements? Well to slightly "advertise" myself, both of those are seriously unfinished so there are huge flaws and such still so not my best work. But yeah if there are any other sound designers here i would highly recommend Serum as one really good plugin to do such as it has so many possibilities. Basically everything can be made with Serum

Ok, have to change my words compared to previous post that the growl on the intro was not monster oscillators but rather reesey mess and animal, i remembered totally different thing from other sound designs on Serum but otherwise basically the same thing with the modulations and stuff, anyways i sent the "finished" project to monstercat as a demo but they were not interested on it so i just took a quick sum up screen capture of the project and uploaded it to youtube so i could ask some advice on it what went wrong, well there were few EQ mistakes and stuff which i already corrected slightly but now i'm just wondering should i send it as a demo again when i have fixed the few things or more things or just start up with other stuff, here is the video: So any advice? from anyone?

I kind of get what you mean by that whereas the growl should kind of blend in more. Some sort of reverb echo after small fading on it's own before stopping the note perhaps, that particular track is on much better shape already as in the entire track. And the growl by the way, no vibrato at all, it's just my current style basic sound design on Serum which contains 2 different monster oscillators on A and B and mostly control them by merely one macro which modulates wavetable positions on both oscillators and also filter and levels and Bend+/- on other and sometimes FM/AM (from the other osc to the other) to the first osc. Sometimes i link even some EQ modulations into same automation clips but not always. Either separately or not at all, Effects i use depend so much on the sound designs, as in are they necessary or not so that they would sound at least somewhat cool. All into one macro control makes things easier on playlist because otherwise it would be rather frustrating to control each one individually. I also use the same technique if i am using several sound designs like in I'm in Love remake, linking controllers into one automation clip as i can control my sound designs easier that way to work with each other as they are in several layers. For example 2 basic growls, one on Serum and other on Massive working together or one of either individually for those RRAUURROOAA-BOOOAA-EIOOHYVÄ-OOHYEAAHH (:D hard to describe) growl sounds and two slightly different designs on Massive for drones as it has performer which makes drone design easier than in serum which then requires automation clips. I noticed that for growls, vocoder sample modulation does not affect as much as i hoped, so usually i leave them totally out but not always. Man i am still missing some really awesome orchestral libraries as i can't afford them. Hopefully i can soon enough get some updates/upgrades on software and hardware if i can get some cold hard cash from my work and then truly start working on music productions with better things. I just have no idea where i should send them as demos as in to Monstercat perhaps? Man do i suck at being social and stuff sometimes, like seriously i have no idea how i should "promote" my work or anything else for that matter at least sometimes.

Hey, i've made several virtual guitar leads on my tracks and i would highly recommend Guitar Expansion pack for both, acoustic and electric guitar stuff on Nexus although not sure are there any better ones out there

Man the replies on this topic already have been awesome, had to check this thread out as i have such fear myself to fail always. As basically everyone pointed out of course failing is the only option to get at least some feedback on what is wrong and then trying to get better from there. But in my opinion it doesn't mean of course that a person should try to fail, so to speak, and what i mean by that is that i for one have sometimes almost kind of given up and then just rushed some stuff to completion with the current skills and software i have rather than taking my time with them. Which makes me ask a question on which i honestly don't have any idea: Should i delete my old productions just clean off from internet? I have started deleting some of them because they were just awful in a way, but not all of them as they have had some flaws in them especially in EQ, mixing and mastering area not in all areas? But then again why should i keep them if they aren't that good still? just to show this is where it started? or should i kind of remake them and then re-post? i don't know

Trying to make something new on top of Feel It project, it's slightly easier because don't have to start everything from scratch as it was kind of an big project and also i can use some of the the same sounds and stuff. Not sure about that growl on the intro though, Verse is at the beginning and there ain't chorus or drop yet. Was planning on making something similar as in I'm in Love but still different.

Hey thank you man, really appreciate the compliment. Just trying to fix the same track now on few areas and send it as a demo but also new stuff under construction. I recently made an remake of Brig's single I'm in Love which was really good practice on growl/drone sound design and also on mixing and mastering areas: I'm not like super heavy brutal dubstep enthusiastic either but still i like making growls and such basses on tracks because otherwise they tend to stick around on rather "boring" area sometimes or at least too ambient and repeating for too long, lacking the drop so to speak Listened to the Grey Goo Soundtrack, really cool compositions, and basses are not that bad actually but that wobble he likes to design is rather cliche for my opinion. But yeah there are several types of dubsteps for people liking different kind of stuff. Instrumental Core has awesome stuff also on dubstep and orchestral combination area, i would suggest if you haven't listened to him yet

Actually my demo version of Ozone 6 just ended so gonna try to do my stuff without it thanks anyways, no way i can afford it knees deep in shit with money problems and as for pirating it.. meh.. and thank you timaeus222, just downloaded endorphin and tried fruity blood drive already, i really like the add color knob as it really does add color rather subtly, also listened to your Born from the Ashes, it's cool how soft the sounds are

Yeah definitely should make more exciting tracks by making enough modulations. Literally just checked http://www.musictheory.net/ once more and boy have i been in the dark for long on the fact how easy some basic chords are truly to actually know what they are rather than just making what sounds about good.. as in basic 3 key Major chord scale goes every fourth and seventh added from the starting note and Minor every third and seventh.. feel like an idiot.. should have checked earlier on from the moment i started up producing music and dreaming of being a good musician so that i could make music that people would enjoy while enjoying composing it. But about adding dynamics.. seriously i would appreciate if you knew any proper links to websites or have your own instructions on how i could truly master better. So far i have noticed that adding soundgoodizer does bring fatness and some brightness into the track, but it also tends to bring some amount of distortion to everything especially if i add too many of them. Also i have tried to dial down all the peaking but still i can't seem to get my compositions sound good.

Edit. did not read properly as AngelCityOutlaw pointed same but yeah, Session Horns from Native Instruments, not that big of an library and still maintains really good quality for more jazzy horns on my opinion http://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/orchestral-cinematic/session-horns/ I love everything from Native Instruments

Hello. I have gotten really interested on producing both orchestral and rather melodic dubstep/drumstep styles lately and have tried to fit them them all into single tracks, and i was wondering are there people here interested on same category? I would be interested on hearing of such productions and discussing about them in general What about just producing only orchestral and or only melodic dubstep or drumstep? I was suggested to come visit here from DSF ninja community in hopes of advice for building full on orchestral music, well i have in fact already tried to compose some full orchestral pieces already on my own, but my compositions have been rather short so far so i have mostly only made them as intros on my tracks with virtual instruments mostly from Native Instruments and then just started making beats and sound designs after that with an faster tempo, here is my latest example: So any opinions or advice on that? I got already one useful advice on which i totally agreed: the part on around 1:50 in the track, on which i stop the orchestral intro and started making the verse and chorus, i first lower the tempo even lower down from 110bpm for few seconds and then lift it up to around 160bpm so i can make faster almost drumstep style track, but that precise part does sound kind of.. off, because the super saw sound design sounds weird while speeding up.. so should i make the part on which i change the tempo totally quiet and/or at least faster or with different sounds.. or should i just try to make full orchestral tracks as in keeping the 'intro' of my tracks out and making dubstep and drumstep and orchestral separate, trying to fit too much into single tracks can be kind of.. weird.. what do you think? Well then again on my own opinion, i like to try to fit lot's of stuff into my productions because for example the orchestral intro does bring rather exciting feeling into the track but then when it changes into dubstep/drumstep, it does have some sort of other feeling which makes me enjoy making the production. What about mixing and mastering? I have sucked at it especially earlier on and have tried to practice it more alongside with sound design and build practice and am not super familiar with chords either in general how they actually work, so far i've mostly just tried playing them on my midi keyboard or adjusting them otherwise in piano roll which would sound about right. My choice of DAW is Fl Studio 12 which seems to be my kind of workstation in all other parts except it being really hard on my CPU (annoying lag sometimes when there is lot's of stuff happening at the same time and CPU peaks at 100% usage) so don't know if any other would be better on that part but not in the set of mind on changing daw as FLS has best workflow for me at least and am familiar with it so i am trying to only get my productions sound better to people in general and i think that changing daw ain't the solution for that