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8 TRACK ATTACK! New Member Assignment

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First attempt at this challenge, and honestly not sure what genre this ended up as … I started out with the intent of a melodic dubstep track, but then those vocals happened and it all turned rather sinister … now feels more like it ended up as some kind of dark alt indie pop electronica rather than ‘electronic dance music of some kind’ … At least it isn’t David Essex … :D

https://community.producertech.com/petter/uploaded_audio/433/stay-away-from-me

Interesting challenge though, really makes you think about your sound selection!

My 8 tracks;

1 Kick; sample, used a separate AUX track for some parallel processing on this one (since I'm on Logic and can't do racks).

2 Snare; sample, also used some instances in reverse for FX and doubled on kicks for impact.

3 Hats; loop, so hope this one is approved as ‘one sound’, chopped and filtered throughout.

4 Bass; layered sub and midrange into one, filtered and also uses an AUX track for parallel processing and extra width.

5 Vocals; pieced together and layered a collection of adlibs, lead vox, bgv and doubles all from same kit/vocalist on Loopcloud and bounced into one final accapella track. Hope this is within rules.

6 Acoustic guitar; one finger picked clean part, and one strummed with added distortion pedal

7 Synth keys; sustained bass line, chord stabs and a little topline melody on top - all in one MIDI track (using velocity and EQ for volume balance).

8 Synth strings pad; base chords + occasional high note in drops.

I’m pretty happy with the composition part, but I’m sure there are plenty to be improved when it comes to the production … 

Speaking of which, I’m quite liking the ‘warm’ tone of this current mix (and it looks decent in the analyzer/reference too) but I’m not sure if my ears fool me and it’s just still a bit muddy …. Anyone care to chip in?

8 TRACK ATTACK! New Member Assignment

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Nice one Sam, great vibe!

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@simon-unsigned : My understanding is that different states of a sound/instruments should be within the rules (open/closed hat, various pitch of conga etc), so a pure hi hat loop should be fine. A top loop with several percussive instruments would probably not be though. 

Vocals is an interesting one ... really think there's a lot of leeway there ... no idea how to restrict it tbh, except when obviously stacking them up on several tracks of course.

New house track - Briannas Musings

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Thanks a lot!! 
Yeah, I tried to keep it rather close to the reference, which is a pretty odd cool tune tbh, so structure and arrangement is rather more static than I usually prefer.

Anyway, implemented a few of your suggestions, some very subtle synths and a few reverse organ reverbs. Think it works, but not sure I want to add anything more, as it kind of detracts to the minimalist feel imo ...

Future Rave Member Tut #5 - Vocal and Intro Arrangement

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Yay!! :D

8 TRACK ATTACK! New Member Assignment

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This should be interesting ... 

Just to clarify;
We are good on the use of AUX tracks? As you pointed out in the livestream, in Ableton you can set up racks with multiple parallel fx chains on individual tracks, but in most other DAWs this is done using AUX tracks instead. We should be able to use it, right?

And then we have to use AUX for reverbs and such as well, since inserts will always have them before the fx.

New house track - Briannas Musings

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This has been in the works for a while - started before the banger challenge, and I considered it for my entry there. It is heavily inspired by Jaydee's classic 'Plastic Dreams' (another 90's), but ultimately I decided it was not banging enough, so went with that other stuff ...

https://community.producertech.com/petter/uploaded_audio/431/briannas-musings

Appreciate all feedback as usual :D

Build a Banger - Member Assignment

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Video is taken down for copyright reasons where I live

Build a Banger - Member Assignment

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Congrats to @ben-m for winning and @alvm as runners up! Well deserved for two banging tunes. Great work guys!

And thanks to Rob for insight and sound advice - will keep plugging at it and try to improve. Guess I have to set up some Seppa sessions to finally try and get a grip on that darn low end! and possibly learn to curb my ambitions a bit ...

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OK, this project got slightly out of hand for a while, I could really have used another week on this, but here we are ... 

As I said, my point of reference is Paul VanDyk's 'For An Angel' - one of my all time favourite trance tracks, brilliant simple melody hook very cleverly arranged and produced. Can't help smiling and dancing to this one whenever it comes on. Classic banger.

https://soundcloud.com/paulvandykofficial/for-an-angel

Original, is in Am and 138bpm, Dm Am C DM progression I believe.

Of course I wanted to do something a bit different, so I've attempted an EDM/Future rave track, taking it down to 128bpm, and slightly changed the chords to DM AM C G DM. I have also changed up the melody to try make it my own.

I'm not sure the original is too much recognisable anymore, so hope I'm not falling outside the scope of the assignment here ...

I've called mine 'What I Love', and here it is:

https://community.producertech.com/petter/uploaded_audio/426/what-i-love-banger-assignment