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"Who killed JinZ?" is an ongoing album. Its production is based on Jamuary, and its story is currently being told.


As the semester finals approached, J decided to put his pastime aside and return to his studies. It wouldn't be long before J became bored with his assignments. J took out a piece of paper and drew once more, hoping to clear his head. It was late at night when J noticed the sheer amount of work that needed to be done for the next day. He worked late to complete the assignments. J awoke late in the morning, so he couldn't cycle to school this time. He asked his mother to drive him to school so he could arrive on time.


PS: This episode was inspired by my busyness today.

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This is pretty good! For what you wanted to convey, it's a solid track with interesting sections. I have some comments, although I'm super picky about how much variation in songs I enjoy, so you'll need to determine if my ideas make sense to you.
- I enjoyed the string pads but was left wanting a bit more movement in them.
- The descending square wave synth is a great addition, but it sounds a bit too loud in the mix to me, and its ongoing presence without variation till 1:54 felt kind of exhausting. But I super dig what you did with the square wave at 1:54; more variations will keep the listeners interest.
- That eight note hi-hat panned right feels a bit off balance, stereo-wise. I know you had another hi-hat panned left sync'd to the kick. I think what makes it feel imbalanced is the two hi-hats serve completely different functions, so they don't compliment each other.
- The 16th hi-hats seem to be battling the synths for the highest frequency space (I think 8Khz and higher). Sometimes lowpass filtering synths helps with this, but you can also use the hats signal to sidechain compress the synths' high range with a dynamic EQ or a spectral compressor. There are some amazing free plugins out there now.
- 3:46 and onward was my favorite part. Super textural! Just wish for more variation here too, because I hear the 4-bar loop.
- Small nitpick, well, more of a stylistic choice, but I think this mix, especially since it's on the faster side of tempo, would favor a shorter kick, perhaps even the same kick squeezed shorter (faster playback rate but same pitch).

JinZ responds:

Thanks for your feedback

Oh god do the samples not mix together well, at least to me it sounds absolutely atrocious to listen to, like I can't understand what lead to this, and it's also very repetetive to top it all off, I'm writing this part being only 2 minutes in and it's already hard to listen. Even if you were going for this kind of effect, WHY 6 MINUTES. I bet there also would be a better way of building up the tension by making it sound bad. I can hear you wanted to do the alarm clock at about 3:30, BUT WHY AROUND 3:30 AND NOT NEAR THE START, nothing about this makes sense composition wise to me, it's all over the place.
Okay if you asked me the 3 most important things to fix without changing most of the melody:
1. Remove the strings in the backyard, they're really unnecessary and prove no purpose.
2. Work on the mixing, since it's also all over the place
3. please change the samples make it shorter and work on the order of what's going on

JinZ responds:

Thanks for your feedback

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