<WIP><Original><Pony> 20% Cooler Teaser

[Fl Brony]

This is my first song....still not done.....clearly....Sorry for the bad quality

[itroitnyah]

First off, I would strongly advise that you drop the "it needs to be 20% cooler" sample. That sample, along with the "yay" sample has been abused more than Chris Brown abuses his girlfriend/wife. It's just not cool anymore, it's cliche. Just saying, but if you want to use it, go ahead, but I'll guarantee you'll regret it sooner or later.

The bass that starts at around 0:10 is clipping horribly, the crash introducing the lead synth melody at the beginning is very horrible, so you may want to look into getting a better sample, the snare and kick are ok, and could use improvement as they sorta just sit on the mix, and it's apparent that they're clipping as well. The vocal sample that you put at the climax of the riser before the drop is drowning, the synths for the drop are pretty good, it's obvious that you're using presets for the drop, unless you somehow have tons of beforehand experience with sound design in massive. The vocal glitching you did honestly needs a lot of work, as it sticks out and sounds really ugly.

Overall, you should work on your mixing. As a tip, you can't just turn the volume up on something to make it stand out more. It does work in some cases, but if turning up the volume on things is overused, it starts to ruin the mix as a whole. Also, learn how to design synths yourself (if you used presets for the drop or any other part of the song). You cannot go through music production using synths somebody else made. Eventually you'll start to learn how to make your own drum samples, but for now let's stick with creating your own synths. And learn what effects and plugins do, not just "compressor turns it down/up in a different way than the volume knob", but in a sense of "the compressor turns up/down any frequency that is a higher dB in volume than the threshold is set". Learning these things can really help you out with your music. I would also recommend that you get a better set of headphones than your current pair, it can help you hear things in your mixes that you couldn't hear before. And it'll help fill you in until you save up enough money to get an actual set of studio monitors. But for now, you'll have to work with what you have.

[Nine Volt]

Well, itroitnyah said basically everything I'm probably about to say, but I'll say it anyway.

Clipping. Everywhere. Do not boost volumes just to make something more prominent. Make drums more prominent by either a) getting better quality samples, or b) EQing the samples in a good way (look around either here or Google, there's hundreds of EQ tutorials out there). As itroitnyah (god that name is hard to remember how to spell ) said, that crash has no presence whatsoever.

Now for the synths. That bass is clipping, and the synths before the drop are generic at best. The melody itself is fine though. As for the drop, presets. Probably. There was a wobble somewhere in there but it was too quiet to make out. Also, not sure if there's really a sub there at all. There's nothing wrong with using presets, just don't make it obvious like it is here.

Overall, the mixing is bad. The synth in the beginning is too loud (subtractive EQ should fix that), and almost everything is clipping (as it and I have said). I'd advise you look up some tutorials on sound production as well as music theory, especially tutorials on mixing, mastering (a bit later down the line), and EQ especially, but make it a goal to learn what every effect does and how it works. The vocal glitching is meh. Not good or bad, just meh. It doesn't really fit in with the song, sounds out of place and, as I said, meh.

Invest some money in decent headphones. If you've got a fairly low price range then you should see about getting Audio-Technica's M30s, they're only $60 and they're some of the best in that price range. Other than that there are several headphone threads here as well as on other places in the 'net. And please, please drop the 20% cooler sample. It's almost as overdone as 'it's over 9000' or 'this is sparta'. Don't name it 20% cooler either, we've already got several songs named that. And 20% Faster. And 20% Louder. And 20% whatever.