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First downtempo tracks

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Hello,

 

I'm very pleased to join this beautiful community !

I've been working on the production of music for a few years, and I'm finaly finding more or less the type of music I want to work on.

 

Here is one of my first try in downtempo music. I would be very pleased to get some feedback and advises from you :

 

By the way, I recently moved to Barcelona, if you know some great chill out music places...

 

 

Thank you,

Xavier

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Hello Xavier. Welcome here and thanks for posting.

 

I really enjoyed the fast arpeggiated sound coming in around 3:09. Good sound. Expand on that.

 

The bass seems a bit listless, no movement, just the same pattern over and over.

 

Work on your background atmospheres, as they will add space and lushness.

 

Keep up the work. I think you can get something useful here.

 

Pax,

 

Lorn

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Hello Lorn,

 

Great to have feedback from you !

For the fast arpeggiated sound at 3:09, I've been working on duplicating it with other spatialized and weird sounds. It gives more space and geometry but maybe it reduces its strength ?

 

So hard to get a great bass sound :s

I've tried to bring some changes on the sound (adding sometimes for example a saturation). For the rythm, I'm pretty stuck and don't really know how to change it (there are some little changes in the last parts).
Should I try to find an other kick/snare/bass grooves ? Or work more on time duration or timbral caracteristics ?

The mix is also bad I guess... Need practice :)

 

 

Thanks for your answer and encouragement,

Xavier

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Hopefully some more experienced producers can give you better advice then me.

 

One thing I would urge you to do is pick a track from a producer you especially like and use that track as a template. Mark up the track in your DAW with all the areas of importance, intro, breaks, peaks etc. Attempt to replicate sounds and rhythms. This is best way to practice producing, in my opinion.

 

Pax,

 

Lorn

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on downtempo part one - here are some thoughts / suggestions - please feel free to ignore :-)

 

i think the drums and bass sound pretty good (you could maybe double up with a simple drum sample loop to add some swing or add a percussion loop like a djembe or talking drum in some parts) ; there's plenty of variation there in the drums; instead of the slow volume fade in at the start maybe consider a rising filter on the whole drum group / bus?

 

about the synth sounds, i think with some of the early parts (up until the fast arpeggio part) you could perhaps close the filter a little (and maybe up the res) or change the oscillator type on these, they are a little bright with that open filter saw sound; maybe a small amount of chorus on them to give them a little width, a little compression and a touch more delay/reverb perhaps too

 

also consider doubling some of those slower synth parts with another part, maybe with a part an octave lower

 

the fast pitched organ sound at 4mins i think could do with volume leveling a little / compressing and maybe recessing with a little reverb

 

 

like andorra said above -lots of good elements here

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Hey,

 

Thanks for your encouragements !

You may have given me some good advices.

 

For the drums, I could work in adding another part I guess.

 

The synth allready have the cain of effect you propose, but maybe I have to play with the parameters a bit...

Your ideas of closing the filter for the first parts and double the parts seems good. Thanks, I will give it a try.

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