CyberpunkColt - Fluttershy's Tears (Ruka Remix)

[Ruka]

https://soundcloud.com/djm3lody/ruka-fluttershys-tears

It's an old one, but I'm still very interested in improving so any general feedback is much appreciated

[Guthey]

Hmm, well this is very calming an relaxing, I would lower the rain drops a bit, but that's just me. that drop part is hard to hear, and the bass sounds really distorted and the rain seemed to be drowning it out, same for the second drop part. The drums seemed like they could be a little louder, as well as the piano melody.

Primarily, I would spend some more time on the mixing, some things(as mentioned) sounded a little off or weren't really heard. If you kept the bass, or at least made a pretty decent sub, this could have been a very pleasant chillstep, but again, it all comes down to your mixing in the end. I actually really liked the pads and the melody, it made me feel very calm and a little gloomy(probably the rain effect, which is a very nice touch), not many songs I listen to do that so I congratulate you on that. This is still a very nice song and I would definitely put this in my playlist.

[Ruka]

Woah, sorry for late response. but:
Thanks! With the mixing (not really my best side iknow), would it be appropriate to lower the low frequencies for the growl and adding a simple sub? Or should the sub also, skip, jump and 'bend' the same way the growl does?

Over to the "bass sound" itself, could you elaborate on "distorted?". How can i fix this? What needs to be changed?

Thank you for helping a fella' out! Really appreciating it! ~

[Guthey]

The sub should be modulated less than the way the growl is, too fast a change will cause a feeling of speed up tempo causing the song to not flow as well as it should. Just make the sub constant, make a melody out of it, or just have it follow the entire verse's main arp piano melody, but keep the notes held, do not be frequent with them as it begins to sound extremely strange. Say you have a arp in the key of C and then it transfers to, say A minor, simply let the sub follow the main key. I would take out the growl completely as it does not sound like it fits in this at all.

As for the distortion, I have to say it's probably just the way the bass was created. If you are using FM then check one of the operators to see if one has many striations in its frequency and simply change that up a bit. Another reason is that it might be taking on the distortion or static of another sound. To make this simple, if you have white noise going on or some high frequencies going on, then I would suggest you lower them. They cause phase cancellation which means that two opposite frequencies cross each other and cause a cancellation. Say we get a sine wave and mix it with a cosine wave, since they are opposite waves, they cancel each other out, relate that to sound and you get the same thing. What might have happened is that the white noise's high frequency was greater than that of the growl's, causing the white noise's frequency to not only cancel out the bass's, but that it took the place of the bass's high frequency, hence it creates that sort of high pitched distorted sound. Lastly, the bass just might be too loud and it's clipping itself, which also causes the distortion to occur.

Hope some of this helps, if not, then I guess it is the simple will of the gods.

[Ruka]

This is amazing. Idk what to say. You start by mentioning phase cancellation which sounds greek to me but you explain like Jesus Christ. Dude thanks, I'll be sure to have this in my notebook!