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Eetu Suikkanen57 days ago(+1)

Cool idea with those slides ending the phrases!

Felt to me a bit that you could utilise more panning in this since a lot of the instruments are playing in the middle. Like for a wild idea/example you could have the harpsichord and saxes panned to opposite sides a bit so the interplay between them at 0:53 gets some more power with the line moving from side to side.

Another thing that might just a subjective thing from my part, but I felt that you could've had a proper kick sound even if you have the 808 bass, just to have the kick give that nice punchy emphasis on the beats. The 808 bass would probably need to be sidechained to the kick to help it punch through, but it would help amp the vibe a bit imo.

For your first track using a daw, really great job!

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KtharVI57 days ago(+1)

Having no constant kick can be a good way to increase difficulty? I felt like the groovy rythm was enough, but well, I never played the game sooo...

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Nick Schuitemaker56 days ago

Thanks for the in-depth feedback :D

I've barely ever really utilized panning before, so it's a great suggestion of something I can try next time! I like that idea.

I've never used "side-chaining" (nor know what it is), but I'll look it up. I myself felt like the kicks were quite punchy and on-the-beat already, so I am a bit confused about what effect side-chaining will have. Could you elaborate?

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Eetu Suikkanen56 days ago(+1)

just felt to me that having a short and sharp kick playing on the beats would help with emphasizing the rhythm even more.

Side-chaining is just having a compressor on a track responding to the signal of another track, so in this case the 808 bass would have a compressor on it thats responding to the audio fed to it from the kick, lowering the volume of the bass when the kick hits, helping it cut through the bass.

But those are probably not needed, The 808 just didn't feel sharp enough to me on my first listen (If that makea any sekä😅), so i suggested that.

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Nick Schuitemaker56 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Aha! I now get what you're suggesting. I watched a video on side-chaining, and I believe the effect you are particularly referencing is called a "ducking" effect. It's a great suggestion really, just a shame that I didn't know you could do that. Either way, I learned something new here, so thank you :D

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Eetu Suikkanen56 days ago(+1)

It's a bit confusing to understand how it works (at least it took some time for me to wrap my head around it 😄).

But when you get to grips with it, it's a really great tool to know. I think it's used pretty commonly in electronic music to get that pumping effect with the kick ducking the bass.

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