retro future lo fi arpeg-wave

[dgaf]

let me know what you think

i wrote this a couple years ago and threw a beat in and arranged it couple months ago

thank you

 

[ultrasound]

its pretty weird and insane but thats whats good about it

 

[AkaraEtt]

Now, for my ear to be sonically tickled in the right way, I'd wanna hear just a few seconds more stimulation in the 20-100Hz range!!

 

[dobro]

I don't know whether or not you want it to sound good. If you want it to sound good, you might experiment with easing off all the high end you've got on this mix, cuz right now it's very bright. The brightness adds to the puts-your-teeth-on-edge feel of the music for sure, but I'm not sure exactly how physically uneasy you want this experience to be. And like AkaraEtt said, it wouldn't hurt to have some low end as well.

 

[dgaf]

I don't know whether or not you want it to sound good. If you want it to sound good, you might experiment with easing off all the high end you've got on this mix, cuz right now it's very bright. The brightness adds to the puts-your-teeth-on-edge feel of the music for sure, but I'm not sure exactly how physically uneasy you want this experience to be. And like AkaraEtt said, it wouldn't hurt to have some low end as well.

I guess where I'm coming from is that quality of music is subjective, that what's good to you is different than what's good to me. I would rather push people's established tastes to hear something in a new way or to develop my own aesthetic than to play it safe and do what's already been done. In my mind, it doesn't sound great, but it's pretty cool and is a step in a direction I'd like to pursue. I put it up here to see that if anyone else feels what I'm doing, or feels any part of it at all, to give me advice so I can get more perspectives and hear from dudes with more experience than myself so I can get better. It's cool that you don't like it.

I agree with you and AkaraEtt, it could use some more lower frequency sounds. My recollection is that I experimented with some stuff and it made it worse, but I imagine that was a limitation of my own skill rather than a decision that it'd be better without bass.

 

[DM60]

I guess where I'm coming from is that quality of music is subjective, that what's good to you is different than what's good to me. I would rather push people's established tastes to hear something in a new way or to develop my own aesthetic than to play it safe and do what's already been done. In my mind, it doesn't sound great, but it's pretty cool and is a step in a direction I'd like to pursue. I put it up here to see that if anyone else feels what I'm doing, or feels any part of it at all, to give me advice so I can get more perspectives and hear from dudes with more experience than myself so I can get better. It's cool that you don't like it.

I am not sure where you got all of that from, but I read the posts and not one person said one way or the other.

This area is not about whether we like the music or not, it is called mixing clinic, to assist in your mixing.

 

[TripleM]

It's clipping a ton. I'd address that first and then repost.

 

[dobro]

In my mind, it doesn't sound great, but it's pretty cool and is a step in a direction I'd like to pursue. I put it up here to see that if anyone else feels what I'm doing, or feels any part of it at all, to give me advice so I can get more perspectives and hear from dudes with more experience than myself so I can get better. It's cool that you don't like it.

It's not that I don't like it. But if I was producing/mixing this one, I'd be trying to make it s-o-u-n-d good. I'd leave all the notes you played right where they are, but I'd be trying to make the sound pleasant and delicious. Here's a parallel, taken from the world of art. Imagine that you do a painting of a vicious dog ripping out the throat of a baby. Okay, you can do that two ways. You could do it with broad strokes of screamingly garish colors, on the theory that it matches the subject. Or you could do it with a lot of technique and finesse, really lovingly getting the details right with layering and tone matching in order to create a contrast between the craft and the message. Both are legit, but if I was either making a painting like that or viewing it, I'd opt for the second approach.