<house><wip> Freezer Burn <feedback for feedback>

[Nine Volt]

This song is called Freezer Burn.

It was originally going to be a glitch house track called "Glitch Box", but that didn't pan out and I ended up creating this abomination track. I did keep this cool glitchy percussion thing I made, as well as the glitch inspired (ie not actually glitch) segment towards the end.

Song:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ovvwv4o4onzxr ... 20WIP1.mp3

If you give me good feedback (so no, "Good song man, keep it up!" doesn't count, though it does boost my morale/ego), I will go review any one of your tracks (which one is your choice; if you don't tell me, it'll be your most recent thread here). I think that's a fair tradeoff.

[Nine Volt]

Alright, thanks for the feedback eers :3
although I can't/don't want to try to think of a way to fix all that without reworking most of the song, so I might scrap this or let it sit for a while
What do you mean by "your filters should be stronger"? Just for them to affect more sounds, or...?

[VaporBlaze]

0:46 - I'm really enjoying the clicky, constantly panning percussion effects, but the clicks seem a bit quite relative to the other sounds. If you wanted them to be more ambiant that's totally OK, but I really like harsh clicky sounds (like what FlutterRex does), so personally I wanted/expected them to have a bit more presence in the mix.

1:17 - The lead synth has come in at this point, which means you spent 1:17 on the intro. Over 1 minutes on an intro is fine, especially in the context of house music, but since this is a glitchy song, it might be cool to add a bit more variation and glitch to the intro, it seemed to just loop with the "voosh" coming in ever so often. A few bits of stutter or repeat or changing the order of the pattern might be nice.

1:34 - I really like the little trill that comes in here and repeats on occasion afterward, but sometimes, they come in a seemingly unexpected times. If I counted right, this one was on the third beat, but (and I might be completely wrong and I don't know how this would actually sound), I guess I would expect it on either beat 1 or 4.

2:31 - You've brought in the kick and stronger base, and the synth has transitioned to playing a chord (I think). It sounds really good, but it doesn't sound like you have varied the pattern that the synth plays at all. One idea I just had could be adding a low note on the 1/8th count in between each chord. DAH-duh-DAH-duh-DAH-duh-DAH-duh style.

3:13 - The higher synth sounds really good here, I especially like how it "pitch bends" in.
3:26 - Aaaand.... it just faded out. Why? I liked it. 13 seconds seems to short for it to play, losing it from the mix was a bit unexpected. The jittery whatever-it-is that came in here was also really cool though

3:37 - Ah, I see, you just switched to another voice. Normally I applaud a lot of variation, especially in house tracks because they tend to be fairly long with progressive build ups that make the whole thing sound rather homogenous. However, here, it does seem a bit abrupt to bring in a new sound, fade it out immediately, then bring in another new sound, when the rest of the piece has followed the paradigm of slowly bringing in additional sounds, and slowly dropping them.

3:50 - OK, I see what you are doing here. Still, I think the voice from 3:13 was cool and deserved a little bit more time.

4:03 - OH HELL YES. This is what the song is ALL ABOUT! I think this is perfect no complaints at all!

4:48 - It sounds like you've been using the same glitch pattern up till now, which is fine, I've been enjoying listening to it, but it appears to keep repeating all the way until 5:10. I know this is house and that's how it works, but when you started the glitchy section at 4:03 I was super excited because it was an awesome variation on the pattern you had been building up this entire time, and it would have been cool to see it mutated even more all the way till the end.

5:10 - Outro is fine.

Overall - I really like it. I think that the first half (up to 2:31) could have used a little more low end (I understand that you want it to be really strong when you do introduce it in full, but still). To break some of the repetition up, without messing with the main melody that pulls the song together, you might consider just messing with the "knobs" on your synths over time, if you know what I mean. Automate the high/low pass, or the filter, or the compressor, or reverb, or EQ, to gradually alter the timbre during the more repetitive parts.

I can't wait to hear it finished! I have a link to my song in my sig, or it's probably at the top of the threads, thank you very kindly for the offer of feedback! I feel like there should be reciprocation of reviews and feed back in this forum. There's often lots of threads asking for feedback, but all of them have very few replies, if any.

Also, if you disagree with any of my comments, or if I made any foolish statements, I definitely wouldn't mind feedback on my feedback. I am still very new to the production side of the electronic music scene, and I wouldn't be surprised if I made a few "wrong" observations.

Cheers,
Mathematicus

[Nine Volt]

Thanks Vapor, I went and reviewed your track :3

2:31 - You've brought in the kick and stronger base, and the synth has transitioned to playing a chord (I think). It sounds really good, but it doesn't sound like you have varied the pattern that the synth plays at all. One idea I just had could be adding a low note on the 1/8th count in between each chord. DAH-duh-DAH-duh-DAH-duh-DAH-duh style.

That's actually what's happening, and it's not playing a chord. That distorted synth is playing both the melody and an offbeat note an octave lower. They overlap in the end of the measure but nowhere else. The only other bass part is the sub