All my Song is Broken

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All my Song is Broken

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I really just wanted to make a song that'd kick my ass. Worked on this for about 4 or 5 hours yesterday afternoon without any real direction. I haven't made anything lately so here's showing that I'm actually doing stuff.

Feedback welcome. I'll probably finish this into a full song. I'll also probably pull a lot of the weak sfx samples and make my own as well. Wonder how they'll turn out using my Elgato Wave 3 or new Roccat Torch :)

Just FYI, I spend a lot of time in the back end of all my plugins working on note functions and how they interact with effects, other notes, it's own sounds playing over it, and random channel routing. Since I'm mostly an experimental artist, I tend to do this and spend less time on my own custom compositions. That's not to say I don't spend time writing my own melodies. I just spend more time looking for new fun things that sound strange and cool together :)

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Jatmoz

2021-09-25 16:37:14

I'm more inclined towards glitchy, experimental stuff like this, but this could use some things for it to sound great. For one, the sounds used and the glitches are quite dry. The break could be cleaned up more, you could also play around with chopping the sample and doing all sorts of arrangements with it to make it more exciting. You could pan the vocals, delay them, destroy them too. The glitchy noises can really shine when they're put under the right processing, some modulated filters and something to smooth them out more.

I don't mean to be harsh, but it sounds like an experimentation session you put drums and some vocals over. This is a subjective thing, but it doesn't feel like the instruments are interacting between each other much, which would otherwise make the track more cohesive and grounded. Repeating phrases here and there, instruments going out as others come in, a consistent groove to legitimize the noise in between, I know this is a work in progress but just details like that are what I feel make a great glitchy track.

I think I heard some other sounds in there? Like a bass at 0:06 and some kind of white noise at 0:05? The glitchiness together with the break make it a bit hard to discern those extra sounds, you could mix them so they can leave a bit of space for the accompaniments. Just the glitchiness and the breaks alone take up a lot of presence, so you'd need to EQ them well so they don't overshadow the other elements.

For what you have right now, I'm intrigued to hear what the full track will sound like.

Razex

2021-08-20 11:33:35

Not a fan of glitchy stuff like this in particular, but I could see this fitting as some sort of middle section in a song, so maybe it'll make more sense that way. I gotta say these sounds are really interesting though and I really like the drum beat, so I hope you actually made them.

JPDunecrest responds:

Thank you for your honesty :) I was also thinking this would be a like a second phase hook to a full song. I tend to listen to these for hours on end and sometimes I need to stand up, walk away, and come back with fresh ears. I swear my brain puts in the notes subliminally while I listen, except there's actually gaps in the track.

I appreciate the note on the sounds being interesting. I enjoyed the surround vibrations this gave off in my headphones even though some of the notes are cringeworthy.

As for the drum beat, it's unfortunately 4 loops that I edged together for about 1.5 hours. They take up two separate effect slots and decay sounds at variable rates to keep the beat poppy even though the bass wants to punch through. There's other methods too achieve this too. I was a little lazy, but will ultimately sample all the drums out from my full library in the end. Sometimes I will not really see the potential in a song I'm working on and scrap it without putting filler sfx and drums in. I'm trying to do less of that and post more works in progress.

Thank you so much for taking the time :) I'll hit you back with a review after the work day.

JPDunecrest