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Cadmiae/CyroNG - Granary - For NGADM 2019!


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Name: 'Granary'
Bitrate: 256kbps
Genre: Electronic/House
BPM: 128
Length: 3:24
Size: 6.23MB
Total Time spent: 15 Minutes.
Channels: 5
Plugins: 3
Notes: 14


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I like the spacious atmosphere at the beginning and the ominous mood. This track has a lot of bass, and the creepy synth at :15 was a nice touch. The slight atonality helps enhance the mood too. At some point, I wanted the progression to pick up a bit more, though. At :46, the beat is a little dry and generic, and the samples are not of great quality, especially the hi-hat on the off beats. I think the mix could be tighter too. The texture is well-balanced, but some of the murky synth lines get a little lost once the beat comes in. The composition needed to be much more dynamic and variational to satisfy my standards. You have a good sense of flow and harmony, but there isn’t a strong sense of direction yet. This piece is a minimal beat with a lot of atmospheric filler, but not much prominent melodic content, emotion/drama, or storytelling. Overall, strong work with the mood, atmosphere, and harmonies, but next time I want to see you clean up the mix a tad and work on fleshing out the composition much more. Keep at it, CyroNG! :)

Mixing, mastering, and balance
1.25/2
Structure, transitions, phrasing, and variety
.5/1.5
Melody, tonality, harmony, and texture
1/2
Instrumentation and sound design
.5/1
Emotion, atmosphere, and catchiness
1/1.5
Originality and uniqueness
.5/1
Overall (how do the elements above interact?)
.25/1
Composite score
5/10

CyroNG responds:

Thanks for the review! I'll take most of your points into consideration to improve my future tracks.
-CyroNG/Cadmiae

Not a real big fan of the clap and hat you used. They feel very outside the mix. Maybe turning them down and putting a bit of reverb on them can help with the mix. I would have also liked something of a melody to layer on top of the drums and pads, since now it feels like it's dragging on for a bit too long without any significant melodic changes. Still, It's not bad.

CyroNG responds:

Hmm.

Are you sure that putting a bit of reverb on the clap and hat is a good idea? I really like contrast in my tracks, to make it a bit more varied like the start of the track. For example, it turns from a moody atmosphere to a bit of mysterious sounding atmosphere at 15 seconds. I don't really think the clap and hat are that too out of the mix.

My goal for the track was atmosphere, which I think turned out pretty well for only 15 minutes of producing a full track.

Yeah, I agree that around 3 and a half minutes of music needs melodic changes. I didn't think of that while I was half-asleep making this. :P

Thanks for the suggestions!

Not bad! The kick never hits those low frequencies (maybe you did that on purpose?) which keeps this from being a house track and it's more of an Ambient track.

Still sounds so cool and atmospheric! Gets me all day dreamy :D.

CyroNG responds:

Yeah, I was thinking of a very atmospheric feel to the dong, but day dreamy? I can't really see that, this track has a really cold theme as well. Eh, thanks anyway for the 9/10!

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Downloads
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Votes
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Score
3.12 / 5.00

Uploaded
Jun 17, 2019
12:36 PM EDT
Genre
House
File Info
Song
6.2 MB
3 min 25 sec

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