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OL - Brighter Days

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This song has a sort of intentionally bipolar nature. (Not manic-depressive necessarily. It just has a more upbeat, happy section followed by a more lethargic and angry section and ending in the happy again, I guess.) I've been working with this melody for a few hours today, and that's after working on it hours yesterday, so I've put a good chunk of time into this.

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Better than my junk lol

First off, I just want to thank you for your continued support, and this great opportunity to test out my new headphones! I won't judge you on how loud the bass is, given that I'm still getting used to them.

At the beginning, it's clear that this is going to be an uplifting song. The melody has this cool feel-good quality to it, and is well written. Good subtle use of portamento (glide) here; fun to listen to!

The kick sounds pretty solid. Don't change it, as we know what happened last time I suggested something of that nature :3 Its rhythm changes up at 1:01 -- a welcome variation.

I'm noticing now that the delay/echo on the background/rhythmic synths is getting a little annoying. It was good in the beginning, but I think you could have at least toned it down once the song got going at about 0:30. I think it's drowning out some of the percussion, which is an essential part of the overall drive of the song. It's not terrible, though; don't sweat it too much.

You are also reusing a lot of synths from your earlier tracks -- when I got to 0:46, I was like -_- Try and make some new ones.

The jumpiness of the melodies are definitely a strong point of this piece. My favourite part so far.

At 2:02, there is a change of mood. Good little build there up to 2:49. The song's a bit too repetitive still overall, though.

The ending isn't half bad -- it could've been a lot worse (like with a rushed fadeout like I sometimes do >_<), so you made a decent choice there.

These headphones have let me in on a little secret -- all your stuff is EQed way better than mine. It's bright, a tad punchy, and more fun to listen to. Kudos to you, sir.

To summarize, this isn't the best track I've heard from you, but it's far from the worst. I would focus on making some new instruments to keep listeners more interested.

Keep up the good stuff!

OpenLight responds:

Haha I use Electric 3 for a lot because it's become a signature synth for me in a sense. I wanted to mod it, but I could never get it to sound right with the rest of the song. Believe it or not, all of the synths in this song (other than the percussion) are mods of Electric 3 haha. It's very versatile.

Thanks for the step-by-step! It helped a lot, and hopefully future tracks are better haha.

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Sep 30, 2011
7:38 PM EDT
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9.5 MB
4 min 8 sec

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Please contact me if you would like to use this in a project. We can discuss the details.