First attempt at an edm track - feedback please?

aurvandil · Joined: Jul 18, 2015 Posts: 1 Location: England

This is my first attempt at composing a edm track, I would really appreciate any feedback on the song so far:

https://soundcloud.com/luke-ironside/nosedive

Thanks in advance!

Curry · Joined: Feb 19, 2015 Posts: 2 Location: Sweden

You've got some pretty good melodies. However, you need to work on your mixing skills. That LFO bass is too loud IMO and it overpowers everything else. A track that's too loud without being mastered creates distortion. You don't want that. Check out what "sidechain compression" is. This song needs it and you'll have great use of it in the future.

Thanks for sharing, and have fun producing more music!

Queer · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 1:46 pm Post subject:

OMG you're so young!
Track sounds great, true the wubs are a little loud in the middle section.
Also nothing great happens real low down so you can probably tighten this mix a little by filtering out below 20-50 hertz.
Lately I've been experimenting with mixes that have just ONE compressor on the master bus (side chained or insert) and driving it to get the mix I want.
Good job hon!