<nonpony><original> Getting back into music, input is nice

[Proverbial]

I only very recently joined this site, within the past day or two to be exact, and I've only really gotten back into music after months and months of negligence within the past week or two. After meeting someone at a convention who pointed me towards this site as a good resource and community I decided to sign up. So here we are, moment of truth, this is a production that was a work in progress only earlier today and I posted about asking for input on how to make it pony relevant. It was completely ignored and after about eight hours of waiting with no reply I deleted my post and went ahead and made it completely unrelated to ponies.

http://soundcloud.com/proverbial/apparition

Any input, advice, critique is welcome provided it is with good intentions. I'm still very new to making dubstep and even newer to Reason 5, which I only started using about twenty four hours ago, so bear with me if I don't understand a technical term or two sometimes.

Furthermore, I know the mastering is terrible on this track, I'm working on that aspect. I just wanted to get something out for now considering the most recent actual track on my Soundcloud was dated nearly a year ago.

[elementsofharmonics]

I don't make the stuff, but it sounds like you have the general concept down. Like some early Rusko business. Things: drums need to pound more, subs, instruments in general need more definition, whether you change them entirely or eq to separate them better.

As far as relevance to ponies, don't force it. When I write a track, I make it so that the theme wraps around what I'm working with (whether it's sampling or remixing songs from the show) but the track can also stand by itself without any pony references.

[Proverbial]

Things: drums need to pound more, subs, instruments in general need more definition, whether you change them entirely or eq to separate them better.

Most of that is just mastering and such, which I'm still getting around to doing. Apart from that, I feel the need to include ponies in my work due to my experiences as an artist. When I'd put up a picture of something I was interested in, it would fly completely under the radar compared to something pony related. It's the proportional size of the community, small names become bigger, things get more attention simply because they're part of the fandom. In all honesty I find that samples from the Friendship is Magic show actually clash with the style and tone of most dubstep, but unless you want to get overlooked and fade into obscurity it seems everyone needs an obligatory pony sample. Maybe I'm misreading it all, but that's how it is in the art subculture and that's the one I'm most well versed in.

[elementsofharmonics]

Niche groups do tend to love gimmicks, after all.