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Villain91
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01 Oct 2009, 1:08 pm

I make drum and bass and dubstep, I love all music and try and encorperate different genres into my songs. I'm pretty experimental at times with it and I'm constantly trying to become better at making them, I'd like to know what you think of my music and possibly what you think I could improve on. :)

www.myspace.com/viperdnb

Thanks for your time guyss :D



pakled
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01 Oct 2009, 7:11 pm

I'm hardly the person to ask; but from most of the 'drum and bass' I've heard (not much), has very little drums or bass...;)

There's some good stuff here, good musical ideas, etc. The only thing I miss is some action in the low frequencies (though that may be the 'drum and bass' idea again...;) Of course, being an old bass player, I guess I'm prejudiced...;)

If this is going to be danced to, having some kick drum and bass (synth or 4-5 string) to make you feel the music as well as listen to it. Maybe up the EQ around 10-80 cycles, etc.

What I see in music like this overall is a 'bolero' effect; you bring in a them, then an elaboration (contra), having two themes working together or apart, then eventually a 'break', where a new theme comes in; you have that working here.

Good stuff, keep it up.



Villain91
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01 Oct 2009, 7:42 pm

Might I ask what sort of sound system you're listening to it through? That might be the issue with you not hearing the lower frequencies, or it could just be myspace's crappy player.... Although I've still got allot to learn about eq I think I'm hitting the low frequencies correctly... How long did you play bass for? And "old", what do you mean by this? You used to play bass? or you're just from an older generation? XD you don't have to answer that one.

Yeah I love the whole call and response "bolero" thing about jump up drum and bass, it sounds like the different sounds are sort of communicating.
Also if you are looking for a more bassy sort of dnb search for liquid drum and bass, it's basically more chilled out and more sub! :D