by Twy » 09 Mar 2013 19:06
Alright I'mma write down my thoughts as I listen (also obligatory 'this is just my opinion and may not reflect a fully objective or critical point of view and I'm not even good at music so take it all with a grain of salt blah blah blah tidal wave')
0:00 I feel like the lead synth is a bit too harsh for the kind of upbeat melody you've got going on. A bit sawwave-y for me. Same with the pad at about 0:16.
0:45 Soundin good. I like the kick and the new synth, though the pad from before sounds a bit out of place, again 'cause of the harshness I think.
1:15 I've got no problems with this breakdown, except for interspersed the kick drum. It feels a bit distracting; perhaps lowering the volume for this section and/or giving some reverb would help.
2:00 I think the sidechained cymbal hiss is a bit loud.
2:30 Another breakdown, which is fine, but seems a bit unnecessary since we only had the beat for a good 30 seconds before this breakdown, so I don't think anyone would be fatigued of that yet. Especially sense the in yo face wubs remain into this section as well, which is presumably one thing you'd want a breakdown to give people a break from.
3:45: The way the wub synth fades out sounds a bit weird to me. I think it might sound more natural to simply have it disappear under the "swoooooosh" cymbal fade thing when the intro synth comes back. I dunno.
So yeh, them's my thoughts. Sounds good aside from those little issues, I thought. Hopefully this can prove to be useful to you in someway or another, even though it's not the most in depth analysis out there.
Keep up the good work.