knell wrote:dedman wrote:Soundcloud
i think this ones going on my EP, not fully finished yet, but what you guys think?
DedMan - "Pick Up"
props:
+intro is like swimming through a foggy swamp, yummy
+those bass drum hits really stand out
+drop is perfectly timed... now i have an example from a forum member to demonstrate what mean by "pronounced drop"
+rises are great (1:22)
+the "pick it up!" sample and the bass that follows (1:24) is... well...

gold. now thats some solid flow and clever automation
+just. wonderful. should be on pandora.com for the Rusko channel, methinks... the tracks they have on there get stale for me after the 387492342 time i hear them, anyway
advice:
-the part of the main riff after 1:24, where the automation goes nuts, is pretty long... almost repeats itself, but i dont think that would matter on an EP or especially in the club.. a false break somewhere in there would solve that
-i was expecting some surprises besides automation tricks in the second drop, but im a picky greedy bastard so if that's too much then dont worry about it
-i personally am not a huge fan of subtractive synths, but you made this one quite listenable and not too dry, just make sure the sub bass has some resonance and 'oomf' to support it so it doesnt leave the listening brain 'high and dry', so to speak
-a deep and different (polysonic preferably) synth coming in at the end of each melody measure would give this track an A+ (in my lunatic grading scale of a brain)
overall:
=ded, you make it very tough to give advice, as your tracks are very well produced, so biggup for that. i really just hope this is helpful, since i really spent most of my listening time with this song bobbing my head and throwing my shoulders into the sides of my chair
i know, i know... you all think knell is starting to lose his mind...