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by reviewmaster » Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:27 pm
Hi Sean. I will give you my 'two cents'.
Freak her: The first half of the intro starts of well. It's catchy, and had my attention. I thought ooh - interesting - what's next, expecting the second half to build, but it didn't, instead it sounded a little confused. No biggie, just get a bit more going on at that point, maybe some percussion. Then it dropped, I liked it. I had my monitors turned way up, and the sub bass was shaking. Definitely working at this point for me, simple but heavy. Then after 4 bars it changed, and got hectic. It remained that way until the end of the track, with a few more 'changes', but overall the dynamic didn't change. My advice would be to listen to some of your favorite tracks, analyse the structure, and put it to use.
When the world ends: The intro is pretty, and leads nicely into the next part. I found the structure a little bit confusing, but individually there are some real good and heavy elements. Especially like the part at 2:18. The part at 3:20 though, far too much going on. Very hectic sounding. Sonically there is too much going on at certain parts, so maybe try to be a bit more brutal with EQing sounds. Remember, a sound that works well on its own more likely than not will not work in the mix without some sort of EQ.
Overall great effort. My suggestion when you've finished something like this would be to step back and consider the structure. Cut whole sections out if you have to if that's what it takes to get the structure right. A track with a decent structure rather than 10 'pretty' parts will work much better.
