Electronic Music 411 - Ninja Magic

Hm, hope it holds up. Who knows, I don't have good monitors. All I can say is that it sounds good on my headphones, and not great on the shitty monitor speakers I have at work.

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07/26/06 + jdg

yup.. vocals too loud.
there is no low end.

the punch is gone.
i need more boom boom

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07/27/06 + ekstrak

agreed with bottom end comments. come friend.. deliver some bass on this track.

overall i'd say you'd be well off keying into more rugged thuggd out dynamics.

possibly angry up those strings a bit, make em more 'rushy'. the break is a bit flat and grey too. needs to drive it, not observe.

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07/27/06 + Plissken

Yeah, thanks for the feedback everyone. I think I'm afraid of bass from previous comments about muddy mixes. I only wanted the actual bassline to kick in at those two spots, but that's not to say the kick shouldn't be banging throughout.

Will fatten up these shits next week at some point.

ekstrak - what do you mean about the rushy strings? How do you do that?

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07/27/06 + mechp

This is dope! I also need the boom boom! It's not bass that muddiness mixes, most often it's low-mids. Those kicks need to thump!

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07/31/06 + Plissken

OK, track is updated with BASS POWER and lower vocals for anyone who is still following along.

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08/01/06 + jdg

Shit dood. u added the bassssssss for sure.

can i now request a bit more snap from teh snare?

also the bass end feels a bit disconnected from the rest of the track.

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08/01/06 + Plissken

Yeah, upon leaving it for a bit I think the distorted bass that only crops up once should maybe be reconsidered or at least toned way down.

Do you feel like the kick has too much on the low end now? The original was a sample from an old track that really didn't have any low end, so I layered it with an 808 kick and then EQed the shit out of it, but I think a) the 808 sound is mixed too loud, drowning out the nice knock of the original. Maybe I'm better off just finding a single, decent kick with enough boom and using that instead of layering.

I'll work on the snare too. Again, really appreciate the feedback.

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08/11/06 + minisystem

hot shitness!

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