Zeal Cover

[eilios]

http://tindeck.com/listen/jwtk

Someone wanted me to cover Zeal on an IRC channel I go to. A different person wanted a more relaxed song. I combined the two wishes and chopped at my backlog! Not really a remix of a cover, but worth posting anyways!

[Gario]

Mmm... more Zeal love. Can't get enough of it, really (I even went out and did one - the source is just too good to leave alone ).

There seems to be a lot of mud in the track throughout. Watch for all the reverb and delay you apply to the track, since there just doesn't seem to be enough room for everything. Clear out the aux/effects and see what works and what really doesn't, because there's some that just doesn't work in there.

The drums shouldn't strike the bass on every accent. That confuses the beat for the listener. Instead, place the bass beat on the strongest beats in the pattern and use the snare for the relatively weaker beats, then experiment from there. More often than not the snare and bass don't line up (save for four-to-the-floor, but I doubt that's what you've got going here), so give that snare some room, there.

I like some of the quasi-swelling pads in the background. It gives it a somewhat ethereal feel sometimes. The cheeze synth works well to carry the texture, but please change the instrument up from time to time. It becomes an earsore after a while.

Nice work on it. It'll need some more work, but I like the direction it's headed.