SavyNeal (ft. Rusko) - My Addiction

[SavyNeal]

New to this forum, hello everybody!

Take a listen to this and leave some feedback here if you would! Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GkR8s7b-u4

[xstatic]

pretty clean vocals and they are well placed structurally.

i don't think it's really appropriate to say "featuring rusko" if you didn't actually work with rusko on this tune. sort of false advertising. i realize that's him talking about brostep at the beginning, but that doesn't mean he's featuring in this song if you ask me...

[SavyNeal]

Haha uuuh yeaaaah, well ya gotta do what ya gotta do. It gets peoples attention and its not like im REALLY lying lol. I know its cheap..

But apparently no one has been too dissapointed by it yet haha

[Hero]

im going to be honest, drop is the most typical sound design of a newb in massive and its irritating.

[SavyNeal]

Your point being? What listener says "oh my god this guy is shit with Massive, listen to that generic synth.."

You can use a common sound and do amazing things with it..

Regardless, I made this sound myself so if anything it's unique.

[Shaion]

Generic or not, but this has to be one of the driest mixes I've heard in a long time.

Give the instruments some room, let the mix breathe. Right now it sounds like you've put it in a box and stuffed that into an even smaller box. There's a three dimensions' worth of space to fill, you're using only two.

Keep at it!

[SavyNeal]

Yeah I know I always got that feeling from my "finished" products...

Any tips on what you think went wrong on the mix?

I have Yamaha HS50's for mixing right now which aren't bad, I'm just new to mastering songs.

[Shaion]

You shouldn't really be worrying about mastering at all. The main point is getting the mix right. The purpose of mastering as such, is to process the track in a manner that makes it sound best on a certain chosen medium (the master). Be in vinyl, CD, MP3, whatnot.

The problem you seem to be facing, is purely a mixing one and very simple at that - Lack of effects. The EQing seems good and everything seems to be where it's supposed to be. (Although I'd add some background sounds for a better atmosphere as well). Use more reverberation, delays, maybe some subtle phasing, pan a few sounds (don't go overboard with that one though. xD), mess around more with filtering... Whatnot. Get creative!

Other than that, a closed and/or dry sound can be caused by overcompressing, overusing flangers/phasers and wrong EQing, but I don't really detect any of that in this particular track.

All in all... The sound space is three-dimensional. Take advantage of that and your tracks could improve by a fucktonne... (I sometimes wish that was an actual official measurement unit)...

Anyways keep at it and stop using stuff like "feat. Rusko" (unless it's true). Most likely it'll just get people to come here and comment on that, not on the actual track itself.

Luck is overrated, so I wish good skill to you instead. Peace out, rock on.

[AirFee]

I dont want to sound liek a dick but you said that sounds unique? Ive heard like literally hundreds of tunes that have bass sounds that sounds pretty much the same as that one. Like i like the song and stuff just not that bass, like if you spend more time making actual unique sounds like resample that bass, fiddle with some of the waves or whatever, do anything to it just make it sound different like the songs not bad just i think the bass lets it down.

[WeBang]

hey SavyNeal I am definitely feeling the vibes on this one. I don't really have any thing bad to say but awesome track.