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Sure sounds like a flavor of corporate to me, did you try submitting to a different library yet?

Mind you they all got their house styles for genre xyz you end up having to pander to so whatever you do don't take rejections personally, just keep at it.

GhostLawyer responds:

Before making this I was given a folder of reference tracks for "rock" that was so varied it seemed like anything guitar-based was fair game. I found out afterwards they license predominantly to reality TV shows and that's a particularly kitschy style I failed to capture. Made a lot of sense when I listened to the tracks actually in their library!

The main issue with this mix is indeed your bass, or rather your sub bass, at the 20hz mark it is peaking close to 12db which is entirely too loud and thus drowns your other instruments out even though perhaps with your current you are unable to hear this yourself.

From the looks of it you've applied a low pass filter to your high end frequencies at the 15hz mark, i suggest you try the same with a high pass filter to clear your unwanted excess of sub bass let's say a cut up to 30hz or thereabouts, you should find your mix will breathe a bit easier.

This is decent track and with a little tweak you can make it a great sounding one.

DeveloperJy responds:

I'll try that out, thanks for the suggestion.

Turned out pretty great, really dig the fried sound of that bass :3

JDawg00100 responds:

Thanks! :D

Beautiful piece, corbyn sample is very appropriate.

Make more :3

zanaelf responds:

Thank you ^_^

I wish i was, he's crazy good. So not my flavour at all but i can't listen to his stuff and not be impressed.

Anyhoo, this actually has that kind of free flowing vibe to it and making your own patches clearly is worth the effort.

Sequenced responds:

yep

Laid back, utterly cool and timeless.

You nailed it :D

SlaughterClub responds:

thanks a lot m8
real glad you liked it
i enjoy traveling through the universe ;-0

Very impressive piece indeed, don't forget to advertise in your blog as it this certainly deserves attention.

Outstanding work.

ForgottenDawn responds:

Thanks for your kind words :)
Well, I did during the time I released the soundtrack, that is... two years ago, wow. I had less followers back then, hehe. I do release updates from time to time, however :)

That's a terrific drone, borders on something cinematic.

Make more.

jambrother2 responds:

It's my girlfriends oven. (with effects of course)
thank you, I'm glad you like it, theres plenty more to come.

The point of a good mix though is that everyone can hear what you're hearing regardless of what they're using to listen to it, not just if it so happens they have the exact same setup as the one you're mixing with.

Don't get me wrong it's a nice track but what's the use if only you can hear all the details you put into it?

bdog705 responds:

you would be surprised at the sound quality with bass being portrayed through many different sources , if you had a basic built in modem speaker and you blasted a 15Hz bassline but then blasted that same bassline through a Velodyne 1812, i can guarantee you the result of sound would be different
this whole song is just me testing bass with different filters and effects thrown onto the bass

as far as the song
im sure out of like the 10 people that care about it, they all get different results with bass crafted songs
it isn't tailored to be just for me and their actually isn't a lot of changes i can hear in this but with a better sound setup i'm sure i would hear things much differently then with a simple pair of HD201 sennheiser headphones and a basic sound card with ASIO drivers
the most expensive thing i have is the headphones and those were a gift XD
but as far as bass, everyone will hear it differently, depending on what they are listening with

Very sharp cut around 16k that might look decorative but why is it there at all, think of all that higher registry goodness that went out the window. Mix is a touch muddy again but it's not particularly bothersome as the track a nice, cohesive whole and it's got that fill the floor vibe like the previous one i commented on.

Jewel in the crow, as is often the case, is your vocal work which makes up for just about any flaw you could pick out yourself.

Good effort, perhaps working under pressure suits you.

Lich responds:

I struggle to mix on the quiet, especially when I'm rushed haha. I did set the cutoff at 18.2K, it seems pretty strange though that 16-18K seems to be missing though. I just noticed that on my headphones. Oh well it's too late to change that <3

I've got stuff coming out on an album soon which sounds much better mixed, albeit what I've done for it is slower. I'll pm you a link to it once it's all done, you might enjoy it (it's free!)

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