<Pony><Original><Trance> The Fluttershy Effect

[PonyAezis]

I appreciate all constructive criticism, thoughts, etc.

[remix panda]

The Fluttershy sample sounds out of place, like it's just layered on top of a finished song. It doesn't quite seem to sync up with the tempo. Some kind of reverb should help pull it back in, but it doesn't seem like there's any space for the sample in the song.

[Freewave]

Yeah that sample really does NOT fill in well with the song. It's just not eq'ed well and sorta just pasted on w/o any regard to the key of the sample and especially the tempo of the track. Anytime you add vocals in where the midfrequencies live are you have to cut them out of the rest of the musical track. It sounds like you didn't cut any frequencies and then used a limiter to squish it all at the same volume (not a good thing). Don't be afraid to do vocal splicing vs using all of an acapella, especually if they don't otherwise work. Your treble of the whole track seems to cut out at certain times too. Pay attention to the EQ monitors when you look at your tracks and see if they jump up or drop shortly and get a synth in there to fill out the mid or high freq when they are missing.

Rest of the track seemed ok but adding the vocals didn't help it hurt so read up on some tutorials on how to treat, splice, and eq in vocals.

[PonyAezis]

Thanks for the advice, Freeware Yeah, I didn't really mess with the vocals (didn't really now what to do), but i'll make sure I watch several tutorials on it, I really want to eventually progress into making vocal trance.

[ph00tbag]

Another thing you may want to try in order to mix the vocals better with the leads would be to put some stereo spread on the pads, and really try to make them live on the sides so the vocals can live relatively uncrowded in the center. In general, this tune is very centered. Consider tweaking the stereo image on your hats and a little bit on your snares. Really, the only instruments that are primarily centered on most tracks are the vocals, the kick and the bassline. Other than that, the stereo image should be wider the higher you go on the spectrum.

More offputting than the mixing, however, is the fact that, especially in the breakdowns, the tempos jsut plain don't match up. You'll want to do some stretching and splicing in order to fix that.