Nice to meet you all!

[RarityTheFabulous]

I'd been playing around with FL Studio 9 for a few months, and then I stumbled across this board. After lurking for a few days, I figured I'd try my hand at a pony-related song! Didn't really want to do a remix, because I figured I'd learn more about music theory and stuff if I weren't borrowing from another song.

My friend is a huge Dash fan, and, well... my name tells you my side of the story, so I figured I'd swallow my pride and make a song for his birthday. Can someone give me some feedback to help me make it 20% cooler for him?

http://soundcloud.com/raritythefabulous/remember-the-time-rarity-was-a

[bartekko]

there seems to be some very bad resonance in some moments. before the drop.

but after the drop it's very nice, and not much to say.

[randomblockfilms]

wow this is great! the drop is very nice. not sure how to improve this. all i can think of is more panning? but idk that might not work. im still learning how to make music too.

[Freewave]

the strings synth is a bit overwhelming level wise, 1:40 vocals could be louder, and the drums are very treble heavy and a bit low in the mix. That said with some tweaks you could fix these pretty easily as i like the track a lot for a new piece. Glad you went for something new vs an overdone remix. Welcome to the boards!

If you want me to take a crack at remixing it at some point let me know as I could give it some sicker wobbles and I've got FL9 too.

[Plaaay]

Sounds really good already! Just the drums could be at least a bit louder.
Heh, I like the title ^^

[RarityTheFabulous]

Thanks a ton for the feedback, everyone. VERY helpful. I still have a lot to learn about mastering, and getting some different ears on different speakers goes a long way!

[Triple_B]

Kinda gave you my opinion on this earlier when you linked it in the IRC, but I gave it a second listen, and here's my analytically and (hopefully) accurate qualms, from the DJ's point of view.

Your bass is very nice; It has a lovely touch of the European dubstep circuit to it (Not very much crazy wobbles or insane randomness in the melody) However it drowns out everything else; mainly the drums, which are meant to keep time with the rest of the song, and are part of how a DJ mixes things, or rather; knows he is mixing them properly (When looking at waveforms)

Your entire song is.... Loud. The waveform would turn me off instantly if I was looking at it to play in a mix; the entire thing is fat and large, which means volume throughout. Typically, I look for waveforms that have two, or just one, bit fat area in the middle, (Because I mix Dubstep, may be and probably is different for other genres) Most dubstep is arranged in an x1/x2/A/B/A/y/A/B/A/z manner, or;

Intro -> Buildup -> Drop Melody A -> Drop Melody B -> Drop Melody A -> Breakdown+Second Buildup -> Not neccesarily a copy+paste of the first drop, but might as well be* -> Outro

*; Because as a DJ, unless you have some crazy vocals in there, or something else I can't really mix with, then I'm going to double drop over the second drop in your song; period, end of story, almost without fail; unless I REALLY, REALLY, REALLLY like your second drop, AND you have a long outro for me to mix with; otherwise I'm double-dropping that bish.

Other than that; very nice work, could probably use some sample-specific plugin mastering thingies via the mixer on your drums/other stuff, (No fucking clue what you call that; you use FL, you know what I mean) and... Yeah. Stuff.

The End.

[Freewave]

yeah that's one thing i think a lot of artists haven't thought about in the past is "is my song dj friendly"? most typical electronica will have mix in, mix out, and a bridge for early mix out and many pony tracks skip this concept sadly. they end up like radio edits as the final song.

sorry to have a side conversation in your thread as that's a valid point for many artists here.

[bartekko]

yeah that's one thing i think a lot of artists haven't thought about in the past is "is my song dj friendly"? most typical electronica will have mix in, mix out, and a bridge for early mix out and many pony tracks skip this concept sadly. they end up like radio edits as the final song.

sorry to have a side conversation in your thread as that's a valid point for many artists here. :lol:

the answer: put a kick-hat-snare-hat pattern for first 32 beats?
and then the same for last 32?

[Freewave]

yeah in most cases i understand that bronys make their music for a radio edit audience but a club version with the typical beat only mixin and mixouts as batekko said are a good idea for artists to consider if a track will be played in a set. when its full vocals and synths throughout it makes it real hard.

Sorry to keep bumping your thread Rarity and we're not exactly on topic with your particular track

[RarityTheFabulous]

It's okay. I really need all the knowledge I can find, directly related or not, if I'm ever to get good at this. Thanks a ton.

Oh, I finished this particular song, btw. The project file started getting huge and cumbersome, so I just took all the feedback I got, added the rest of the lyrics, and shipped it out. I'm ready to start on something a lot more chill and subtle. xD

http://soundcloud.com/raritythefabulous/sonic-rainboom