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    GOOD POP MUSIC

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    IDK, sounds really cool to me (I guess one has to understand the lyrics and the overall context tho)

     

    Actually the whole thing  sounds pretty much like some Perplex/Michelle Adamson collab from 2007. Which is a good thing for me :) 

    Open You're Min'd

    in Free Music Promotion

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    8 hours ago, Rotwang said:

    The bassline is concentrated in the low harmonics, so maybe that's the problem. I did try boosting the upper harmonics a bit when I was mixing it but didn't like the result. Also I reduced the low frequencies (centred around 65 Hz) in the kick, maybe I shouldn't have?

     

    That's a bit tricky to explain, and it's not that I'm such an expert. I'm listening in a relatively decent environment (have some acoustic treatment in there) with good monitors and headphones... the same room where I mix my own stuff. What I hear is that your bass seems to be indeed concentrated around the root harmonic without  much harmonic content in the upper octaves, if any at all,  and the kick barely has any impact, it's just a short midrange sound, not even very clicky. 

     

    The kick/bass in psy is not just low frequenices, it actually populates the area from the lowest sub to upper mids and even highs (approx 15-20 kHz) and you have to get it right in this whole frequency range - the attack/release, the balance, the frequency content etc

     

    e.g., that's the spectrogram of the k/b bus from the track Silent Universe in the nearby thread (that's not a pro relelase, but I think if you dissect a mix from a pro artist you'll see something more or less similar)

     

    Hope that helps :) 

     

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    Open You're Min'd

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    This might require a bit more mixing/mastering work (IMO it still doesn't have enough bass - not in the sense that you should add more low frequencies, but the bass and especially the kick somewhat lack presence and impact).

    But sonically and musically it's really impressive!

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    Listen to some Alex Jones rants on psy :D [WIP] Feedback welcome :)

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    3 hours ago, Immerse said:

    But there are some sounds the virus makes that I didn't see other synths ever do the same way :) I sold my virus C on the weekend and kind of regret it now haha 

    Take a look at Viper VSTi if you are on Windows. It has essentially the same sturcture as Virus and can sound very similar, especially FM and stuff

     

    https://www.adamszabo.com/vstplugins/viper/

    Listen to some Alex Jones rants on psy :D [WIP] Feedback welcome :)

    in Free Music Promotion

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    2 hours ago, Immerse said:

     I actually did use the virus for the kind of stabby fm plucks the main FM riff was made using a tweaked FM patch from Trip Machines, the Ableton rack from Futurephonic. Essentially I would believe you can get the same things from native Ableton stuff. Some great little things in those patches regardless , I can recommend them. 

    Btw mate do you use any hardware synths? 

    Cool, I don't use Ableton but I know Futurephonics make some quality content.

    I have Virus Snow and Microbrute. Both really cool synths, I use them sometimes in my tracks but these days I mostly use software synths.

     

    The ins and outs of psytrance bassline

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    1 minute ago, Padmapani said:

    it's possible to sample es-1 and put it into cubase for quadrafuzz. from what i've heard that was quite often done in the early 00s.

    it's not quite there, but something about the way the filter works makes me think it's es-1. there's some sort of characteristic that's very distinct from the basses i get with other synths (though obviously i don't know vb-1).

    I see. Indeed the filter characteristics are similar in your example.

    I have neither cubase nor logic myself, but I know many people used vb-1/quadra in the 00s (iirc someone told me this technique was invented or made popular by Skazi), so I'm just guessing it's how the bass was made in that track.

     

    TBH I never managed to really nail this specific bassline style myself

    My new track [full-on] Enjoy and lemme know what I can improves :)

    in Free Music Promotion

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    Great track, as expected ;)

    Listening at home, where I have 7inch monitors and some acoustic treatment, can't seem to hear anything wrong in the mix. Maybe the kick is somewhat weaker than what is considered the modern norm, but if you are aiming at mid 00's sound then it sounds fine. The bass is great, what synth/technique do you use? Do you resample it or run directly from a synth?

     

    I'd make the track 2 minutes longer and add a more pronounced melodic climax. E.g. at 4:37, drop some supersaw arpeggio and go full cheese, then it would be fkn epic :) 

     

     

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    Does anybody else miss melodic full-on?

    in General Psytrance

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    20 hours ago, Immerse said:

    When I listen to that atomic pulse track I guess some people might think after the first min or two like oh this is soo slow and not much is going on. Nowadays  the full on has to sound powerful and grab your attention really quickly, almost sounding full on from the start of the track. Maybe it's a good thing, can't get mad at evolution I guess lol 

    Indeed, older fullon used to be less intense but this wasn't a bad thing. I like slow evolution in trance tracks, when elements are gradually added instead of being thrown into your ears right away :)  Like here, there are sections where not much is going on  except for the bassline and some squelches/stabs but somehow the whole thing sounds really entrancing. 

     

    Is it your Virus at your userpic?

    Does anybody else miss melodic full-on?

    in General Psytrance

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    On 9/8/2020 at 7:13 PM, Immerse said:

    Recursion loop your track sounds f-ing sick dude! DEF reminds me of Delerious Noon!  In fact browsing you SoundCloud and it's all a-grade man!!!  We need the full-on morning revolution! Soldiers, man your battle stations! :D

    Thanks! :) Maybe I'll make more tracks in the style like that Safe Travels track. Basically when I started making some music myself I wanted to cocnentrate mostly on this style but by the time I became able to make tracks of more or less acceptable quality the world had moved on and this style seemed to be dead. 

     

    There is some charm in these oldschool jumpy basslines, like in that  Atomic Pulse track (dope track!).

    Psytrance Full-on Morning

    in Free Music Promotion

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    On 8/24/2020 at 9:23 AM, Hiege said:

    could give me some feedback? Would be really nice!

    Thanks in advance. Have a great day everyone and keep making music!

    Here is the track: https://soundcloud.com/hiege2/invaders-will-cry

    Next time  better start your own thread for your works, but the track you posted sounds nice. Impressive that you have been doing this for a half of a year only (unless you are using premade loops). 

    These short clap/kick breaks at every second bar sound a bit distracting, if you remove most of them except the places where they would mark a trasition to a next section the track would be more groovy.

     

    Looking for some advices

    in General Psytrance

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    Your music and your production are great and I think we badly need full-on like that in 2020. It used to be my favourite subgenre but it seems that people mostly stopped making it by 2012 or so. There is a nostalgia thread here :) 

     

    Of  recent artisis I only know Lexxus with similar sound, he has released some stuff at Dacru btw

    So I think you could submit your stuff to Dacru as well, why not? In the worst case they never respond but you lose nothing anyway :) 

    I don't know any labels consistently releasing melodic/morning fullon at the moment, if they do exist please someone let us know

    The Psynews Track?? (second try)

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    2 hours ago, Psychedelic Superbeast said:

    thats sweet af Loopy!

    Thanks Beastie!

     

    Well, making the whole arrangement of the pieces people will provide, making the bassline, mixing the whole thing, that would be a lot of work. I can do that and sure it would be interesting to try but I can't promise making it soon, chances are it would be months ... Quite busy with the dayjob and my own projects. 

    Old progressive thread

    in General Psytrance

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    13 hours ago, RTP said:

     

    @recursion loop and @Padmapani the track "Accessoire" is 7 years old actually, since it was posted on Human Blue's own Soundcloud 7 years ago, which I - funnily enough - only just realized :D
    Actually there's more there aswell:

    There he's also writing something about a new album ... but I don't really buy these news. It was the same with S-Range ... there's no new album legally out till now...
    But we have to be thankful to Bakke and Iboga Records that this Human Blue track is finally released...

    Some really good tracks in  there! Hope the rest of them will be released too at some point

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