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Psy trance - lots of Noah - proOne. Made in bitwig.
Some other guests, bass station 2, blofeld, kurzweil pc3k
, technics wsa 1.

The trance genre is something I find technically very hard to do - so consider it a curiosity, made for fun.

Music specially made for no audience (Tm) :p

Don't worry, it's close enough
The right synth sounds, nice breaks, nice freqs, and the right trippy spirit

I think the rolling effect of kick and bass so typical for the genre could use some attention.
The synthbass doesn't hook together enough with the kick.
Rule of the house: on the meter the kick should be exactly 5 dB louder dan the bass to get that effect...if both sounds are well chosen, which is the case btw.

I'm not genre-savvy...
but there's also some touch of New Order and Vince Clark to it
did you intentionally leave the huge headroom ?
if listened with low level, it makes the track a bit dull
one single complaint: the noise hi-hat ... the rest is cool

cheers, Tom

I think the rolling effect of kick and bass so typical for the genre could use some attention.
The synthbass doesn't hook together enough with the kick.
Rule of the house: on the meter the kick should be exactly 5 dB louder dan the bass to get that effect...if both sounds are well chosen, which is the case btw.

I have to say that i agree - but i end up using so much time on the details, that it ends being fun making music.. i dont think i have the skillz in my blood for this kind of music

did you intentionally leave the huge headroom ?
if listened with low level, it makes the track a bit dull

if i answer "yes" to this, does it makes me a true master of mixing?
anyway - no, its a direct side-effect of my lacking mixing skills. - i guess i can kill some more dynamics.. its not jazz anyway

one single complaint: the noise hi-hat ... the rest is cool

i do not have any hi-hat made out of noise, however i have shakers - and phased hi-hats, that once where 6-bits samples.. but not noise..
so i am not sure what you are referring to, is it the one in the start?

I'm not genre-savvy...
but there's also some touch of New Order and Vince Clark to it

Well.. i am not that hard on genre´s my self.. i tend to just having fun when making music.. and sticking to the rules is not in my "fun-book" .


thank you both so much for feedback, its great tips for improvements!

Rgs
Egil

yes, it was quite in the beginning and it seemed to me that it was some modulated noise source
(which wouldn't be unusual for an electro hi-hat)
but: I may have had a routing error on my monitors (as they serve 3 systems), will check again...

the mentioning of Vince Clark or NewOrder was more for fun - not to categorize
it just reminded me on that sound - and it melted great with 'trance'

I'm not a fan of contemporary big loudness at all, and rather appreciate the way you mixed it
my tool of choice for final impact would be Anwida's L1V
http://www.anwida.com/product.asp?pid=14
it's an excellent tool to make up things from a little bit more present to mighty loud, but without distortion
worth trying... I almost never use compression for loudness anymore

cheers, Tom

ps: in fact I had some kind of mono path active, now the hi-hats are ok and the sound is great indeed
no more dullness - I assume that was due to phase issues of the monitoring - sorry for messing things up