I Need Your Help! (Part 2) · 8:38am Mar 3rd, 2016
So I did some editing work on the track I was working on before, and I think it sounds way better, though I wanna get your opinion on it!
You can find it here!
For the record, no VSTs were used, just a mashup of three of my favorite songs. It was also done in Sony ACID Music Studio 10.
Let me know!
~Lithe
For me the piece was a bit too long. Maybe try to remove some content to make room for even more mixing - I think the best length would be around 4-5 minutes.
Right at the beginning, at around 0m03s there is some weird effect thrown in - listen very carefully and see if you can remove it.
The leading string instrument gets just boring and tedious after a few moments - the song would be a lot better if it was changed slightly to something a bit more interesting - a single tone played as a leading instrument for 30 seconds just does not cut it for me (after a while this instrument goes to the background where it fits).
At 1m46s the change is too abrupt. There is some filling missing.
3m03s - this is the part you want to use for TC .
At about 3m50s-4m30s - are you sure it's necessary? Maybe consider adding some vocal pieces from 3m03s to make it more coherent.
I am not a music critic, so wait for others' opinions .
I don't understand the 'no VST' route - those are tools, if you have them, use them.
You might want to try the free Proteus VX VST instrument. Note that it really needs a 32 bit host (e.g. cheap, but very nice Cocos Reaper 32 bit - the host must be 32 bit, but can happily run on 64 bit operating system).
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That was actually some excellent critique. It's been ages (ten years or so) since I've dabbled with sound engineering in any way so believe me when I tell you that getting this work to this point was an endeavour all on its own. x3 For the sake of my sanity I may use a premade track by an artist, 'cause this was a legit brain buster.
For the record, the first minute and forty-some seconds was actually the Ultra Music Festival extended intro edit for Martin Garrix's "Virus", which you hear as the master track for this song, as I left that untouched.
Either way, thanks for the critique! I appreciate it~
~Lithe
Cool you're making music and stuff, but don't tag stories not related to the blog post.
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It actually is related, because I plan to use it later on in Two's Company. I'm just not giving away when ;3
~Lithe