Drivin' With The Top Down

[AngelCityOutlaw]

I've wrote a lot of short, but catchy tracks this last while and this is no exception.

https://soundcloud.com/angelcityoutlaw/drivin-with-the-top-down

I'm looking for production feedback on these kinds of tunes so any advice you can give me is appreciated.

[AngelCityOutlaw]

Replaced the audio file with an extended version with slap bass, a wobble or two and stuff.

[timaeus222]

I can hear your production's improving.

Some minor things:

- The slap bass sounds simply low passed, and notching or mildly scooping the high frequencies of the guitar where you want the slap of the bass to come through would be a step up from a production mentality of low passing or high passing things you don't want to clash. Once you hear the particular quality of the sound that you want to come through coming through enough to sound distinct, it's good.

- The guitar sounds high passed as well, perhaps above around 200Hz. Same kind of idea like with low passing on the slap bass, so you could scoop the low mids to bring out the bass.

- This kind of genre calls for a punchier kick, but the snare kinda works (a little high pass-y, but it isn't buried). You can hear the kick, but there isn't much high end snap to it.

- At 0:43, the strings could use more dramatic emphases on the first and fourth notes to make this feel more action-like. Gives it more life.

- Arrangement-wise, this seems simplistic compared to how much you actually know about music theory. Use that knowledge!

Edited April 4, 2014 by timaeus222

[AngelCityOutlaw]

I can hear your production's improving.

Some minor things:

- The slap bass sounds simply low passed, and notching or mildly scooping the high frequencies of the guitar where you want the slap of the bass to come through would be a step up from a production mentality of low passing or high passing things you don't want to clash. Once you hear the particular quality of the sound that you want to come through coming through enough to sound distinct, it's good.

- The guitar sounds high passed as well, perhaps above around 200Hz. Same kind of idea like with low passing on the slap bass, so you could scoop the low mids to bring out the bass.

- This kind of genre calls for a punchier kick, but the snare kinda works (a little high pass-y, but it isn't buried). You can hear the kick, but there isn't much high end snap to it.

- At 0:43, the strings could use more dramatic emphases on the first and fourth notes to make this feel more action-like. Gives it more life.

- Arrangement-wise, this seems simplistic compared to how much you actually know about music theory. Use that knowledge!

Thanks for the feedback man! I'll try making some of those adjustments.