Forum Activity for @smillington

Xmassignment - Win Big Prizes!

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Ding dong, bring it on!
Looking forwards to getting on that vibe and hearing everyone else's versions as well..

@SamuelClouston - maybe both?

Would you admit to using AI in music?

General Producer Chat

I just did an experiment - typed a draft message and then put it in chat GPT and it expressed a much more cohesive version of my point:

Hit the Dancefloor

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Hey @transpire - I really like the build up at the beginning, it really feels like you have nailed introducing parts separately with a good amount of space and leading up to about one and a half minutes in.  Think I would like to hear some vocal harmonies on the woman's vocals.  Also agree with the points Rob makes about making impactful changes between sections and at the end of phrases.  It would be great to hear more presence of additional perc giving variety - for example you bring in claps about 3 mins in, which is exactly what is needed at this point in the track, but I can hardly hear them in the mix.
I really think its a great track though and it get me on the floor for sure

Bam Bam v2

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Ahh - thanks so much for the advice and prod towards a course; just what I needed.  Definitely can hear exactly what you and Sam mean - so thats half the battle..   

Reverb and Delay

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Yeah sounds like a great idea Sam - There are so many plugins that work through different frequency ranges, and Id be keen to get my head around the principles better, so I can make more basic plugins with EQ settings work as well..

SAMPLE REQUESTS

Member Content Requests

Definitely I echo perc and vocals requests (particularly - Rave vocals).  Im also thinking of building up my own personaly library of Kick and Snare samples 
Am up for anything really
Cheers 

Bam Bam v2

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Hi Sam - I see what you mean about the separation between bass lines - although I wouldn't know what to do to fix it (maybe glue compression and/or finding a new bass part to sit in between the others).  Yeah probably some more balance issues to fix as well between the parts.  Here was me thinking that the track was pretty much nailed, but making some minor tweaks in one element leads to other things not being right..
Well sometimes the best thing you can do is release it and move on and incorporate improvements in the next one
Great learning experience on this assignment and I really appreciate your feedback.     

Bam Bam v2

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Having brought out the bass line more, I realised that it was sounding too repetitive, so had to go back a step and make some musical tweaks off the back of this - so please ignore the previous link which I've deleted:  
https://community.producertech.com/smillington/uploaded_audio/387/bam-bam-v2

Bam Bam v2

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Following the Bassignment feedback I've updated the track paying more attention to the bass of my submission, which was noticeably thin on the sub frequencies..
I pushed up the sub bass and added some dynamic eq on some of the resonant frequencies of the bass as well. Ended up turning down the gain of the bass by 3-4 db to avoid drowning everything with bass.  

Would love to hear some feedback on this tweak.

Thanks in advance

https://community.producertech.com/smillington/uploaded_audio/386/bam-bam-v2

New Member Brass-ignment!

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This is great notes - thanks Rob.  I will work through these and definitely planning to have another go at balancing my track before I release it into the wild..

Great experience as always and I was really impressed with the general quality improvements and wide range of styles in everyone's submissions.