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Tzu - Beyond the Clouds

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My round one entry for the NG Audio Deathmatch. I decided to start soft, throwing together a nice blend of pads and bells to accent this very airy song.

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Is this DnB?

I'm not sure if this is DnB. Of course, it has some breakbeats in it, but I still think it's a bit too soft to be DnB. I think it would fit better under Ambient, but that's just my opinion.
One thing this song misses is bass. The pads you use are close to the frequencies you miss, but now they function more as a sub bass. I think a sinus or maybe a filtered sawtooth should do the trick.
Some stuff considering the beat: at 0:22 the beat comes in, and it doesn't come in the way it should. The first twenty seconds are really soft and silent, and then BOOM! there's your beat. I think the beat needs more of a build-up there, like covering the whole beat with a low-pass, and then gradually removing the low-pass as you progress. Also, the snare needs to be more punchy, which means it needs some more mid-frequencies. You could easily doe this by layering it with a sub-kick, or with a deeper snare or something. I really liked the riffs on the hats, btw.

Good song, but it has room for some improvement.

4/5, 8/10

- LiquidOoze

Tzunami responds:

There are plenty of Drum & Bass songs that I could think of that cut the drums into half-time, and then pick them up into full later in the song. As well, the song is more Liquid DnB/Ambient focused, so I wanted a relaxing but strong song. If I'm correct this song is made from nothing but pads, besides the bell, the sliding synth whistle, the pluck and the bass.

As for the bass, I didn't notice at the time that the slight flanger effect I had on it took more of the volume off then I expected. It tends to fade in and out, but I didn't take too much notice to it. I thought it was a nice touch for the bass to not stand out as much as it usually should.

Other then that, the focus was to make a light song, not the woofer-shattering, hardcore Drum & Bass that people are probably used to.

haha

I heard that beginning synth somewhere. Sylenth1?
Song has weird structure but at least got that dnb part at 3 mins, that's my favorite one. Yeah! Definitely need more of that .

Tzunami responds:

Funny, because I don't even use Sylenth1. It's actually a low end bass from AM Freehand with a flanger over it. As for the structure, it's focused more on downbeat drum & bass, compared to the heavy and dark sound you hear in most songs.

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Aug 9, 2011
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4 min 37 sec

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