Quote Originally Posted by Jay Pace View Post
allo mate
great ideas in this, loving all the weird glitchy biziniz
Nice smooth sub sounds as well.

Kick is weird though, far too high and doesn't have any thump. Is it a sampled kick or a drum synth?
The sub could do with some growl and less verb, pull it forward in the mix more.

Elements don't quite seem to be gelling together, might be due to where they've been positioned in the mix. kick is uber prominant because its mono and very high pitch, then the glitchy bits are panned quite hard and sit back due to the glitch and verb and behind them is the bass which sounds like its moving around the stereo field a bit.

I'm guessing you like the glitchy bizniz? Its wicked work mate. I'd use less reverb though, it washes it out a bit and makes it sound a bit muted. Verb takes the edge of sounds like that and muddies up their stark glitchy qualities if too much gets used. Are you using the verbs as inserts? If you are I reckon it woudl be better used on a send, keep a dry version of the glitching, then use sends to bang in verb now and again. The use of verbs sounds a bit static - like its permanently set on the same setting all the way through.

I'd scrap that kick altogether. Have you got drumatik? Thats great for designing kicks, you could build a nice thumping kick with plenty of sub to cleave through all that glitchy loveliness.

Sub I'd keep more in mono, anything that low down makes trouble if its allowed to wander around the stereo field. Rigs don't like it and it can sound a bit weird listening to it. One way to get round that is to make some layers - a super deep sub tone beefing away in mono, and then another layer of higher frequencies with more harmonics that can more around a bit. Also nice to grind the higher frequencies up a bit, that way you feel the impact of the bass whilst still getting to hear the melodic content.

Nice work man, looking forward to the next cut.
Hey Jay. Cheers for listening matey! Yeah I agree, that kick is poo! I started shaping a new one but I'm yet to find one I'm happy with.

I was messing with the reverb the other night on the loops, I just don't like them with less or non. Do they sound daft with that jmuch verb on them? The reason I have them so verbed up (new phrase! lol) is because I want to convey a kind of empty desolate insomnia driven sound. I guess there are other ways of doing this without using reverb as much. Any tips?

I'm not happy with the sub at all, I feel the pattern is too basic and the delay that I put on it is a bit much perhaps.

I noticed in your tunes that you seem to wrap them in this really warm sounding bass- Id like to go for something like this too- what does you use to come up with that?

I'm gonna sort out my FL issues when I get home so I should start on the final composition. Thanks for the feedback, its very much appreciated.

P.S yeah, I bloody love glitchyness. :-)