Please Rate my Cover/remix of "Raise Your Weapon" (SAE School Project)
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Please Rate my Cover/remix of "Raise Your Weapon" (SAE School Project) Posted on: 12.09.2011 by Kandra Fagler Hi there, this is the second track I ever made, its a remix/cover of deadmau5' raise your weaponthis is just a rough mix, to be mastered soon This is a school project i did for my school (SAE Institute) I recorded a female vocalist (Shaa) to cover the singing anyways please give me some input so i can rework the final mix and master it arrangement? snares too soft? snares need more reverb? too much gated white noise burst on snare? please be as critical as possible keep in mind that this is not the final mix and is yet to be mastered http://soundcloud.com/ivan-zilch/raise-your-weapon-cover-remix | |
| Alyse Plantenga 14.09.2011 |
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
This is a really good job, maybe layer an extra synth to go on top of that LFO bass so that it has just a bit more grit/bite to it. Maybe bring that in on the second chorus because its meant to come across as a more agressive drop. Just some ideas. Keep us posted on the progress. |
| Kandra Fagler 12.09.2011 | Hi there, this is the second track I ever made, its a remix/cover of deadmau5' raise your weapon this is just a rough mix, to be mastered soon This is a school project i did for my school (SAE Institute) I recorded a female vocalist (Shaa) to cover the singing anyways please give me some input so i can rework the final mix and master it arrangement? snares too soft? snares need more reverb? too much gated white noise burst on snare? please be as critical as possible keep in mind that this is not the final mix and is yet to be mastered http://soundcloud.com/ivan-zilch/raise-your-weapon-cover-remix |
| Golden Faubert 17.09.2011 | i am no producer so certainly not a critic, i hope to start learning production soon and if im being honest i only listened because i love the original, but wow! her voice is absolutely amazing! and you have done the original a good deed in this cover! |
| Rey Holubar 16.09.2011 | It is in the parts where the bass is lighter, where the gated white noise is audible. Thanks for giving it a term. Yeah, it might also be a just personal preference of mine. Maybe the younger generation wouldn't be bothered by it. They don't know too many radios with knobs to tune in radio stations. scamo |
| Kandra Fagler 16.09.2011 | thanks man! about the reverb, all the reverbs are actually separate, i actually ran some parts (eg piano, and vocals) separately into a hardware reverb (tc electronics m-one xl) and recorded the wet signal only so i can have more control over the each of the wet reverb tracks The airy thing you heard (the one that sounds like psssssssst) is probably the gated white noise that I added to the snares, these gated white noises also have reverb put on there for the intention of being airy (lol) I basically saw a video of Rusko doing this to his tracks and i tried the gated white noisy thingy, maybe a bit too much haha , my intention was that the genre can be very bass heavy and drowns the frequency with lows giving the overall sound some muddiness, by adding some white noise bursts i was hoping to add some sparkle to the overall mix, maybe that didnt work lol |
| Rey Holubar 16.09.2011 | Nicely done! I am not an expert, but the only things that sort of bothers me is I believe everything is being pushed through some sort of reverb. If you can, add the reverb effect to each track and take some or change the snare/clap, so it doesn't linger as long as it does in the middle of the song and at the end. It sounds like airy noise, which actually could add to the mood of the song, but it just doesn't quite do it for me. It is more like the annoying sound you have with old radios when a radio station isn't quite close enough and you want to try and tune it in better. It isn't as bad as that, but still annoying for me. Maybe I am too critical. Other than that, keep going. You have talent. scamo |
| Kandra Fagler 16.09.2011 | hi there guys many thanks for the comments! this is the actual version I submitted to my school, slightly improved: http://soundcloud.com/ivan-zilch/raise-your-weapon-cover-1 for the wobble part I added a layer of single oscillator sine wave, with the midi notes dropped by one octave, and it does seem to thicken the wobble bass a lot more and yes i do agree that perhaps the snare needs more oomph, the kick was miked up using the sennheiser E602 + shure SM57 perhaps i need to layer one more kick that is chunkier, getting great kicks with real drum kits is a lot of challenge, maybe i should layer some samples on top |
| Rubye Echeverria 16.09.2011 | Ehemm... if i may... I believe that, for an electronic/dubstep track the kick is quite a bit weak, and with the strengthening of the kick, the snare would sound weaker and so i suggest an over all boost to the instruments. For that bass you could probably just use a vocoder and wavashaper on it. Pretty much it all sounds even, in terms of strength, but its all evenly low... if you know what i mean. So over all it just needs more strength. I must say though, it does sound clean, so excelent job on that. And also, for your second track ever, its quite good. Keep it up. |
| Kathie Caples 15.09.2011 | musically, i really like what you did with the song. the chord change with the bass is extremely effective compared to the original root not drone. im a big fan of this song so its cool to see what you did with it. i really enjoyed the more ambient vibe you put into it. keep it up. |
| Alyse Plantenga 14.09.2011 |
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
This is a really good job, maybe layer an extra synth to go on top of that LFO bass so that it has just a bit more grit/bite to it. Maybe bring that in on the second chorus because its meant to come across as a more agressive drop. Just some ideas. Keep us posted on the progress. |
| Kandra Fagler 14.09.2011 | thanks man, she struggles a bit on the vocal though, took me two 4 hour sessions to get the vocals right, and a lot of heavy compiling and choosing the best takes, i must have probably spent 200+hours on the whole school project from sampling the drums , recording the vocals to mixdown and mastering i am about to get graded tomorrow in a presentation - so SCARY! Never been so terrified in my life! So about 4 senior audio engineers are going to sit down in front of me while i explained what i did for the project etc, and then i play them the song, hoping that they like it, they can be extremely critical sometimes - thats why its so scary! |
| Tatum Ansaldo 14.09.2011 | You're telling me that's not the original vocalist? Good lord. |
| Brent Dierken 14.09.2011 | Sounds pretty cool to me! Nice cover |
| Kandra Fagler 13.09.2011 | hey there thanks for the feedback almost everything is self recorded, the vocals are recorded with neumann u87, a female friend of mine sang for it the drums are actual drum kits which are sampled and then layered on top of each other (3 layers of kick and 5 layers of snare) im my school they dont really teach how to make electronic music into too much detail, mostly they cover live bands and real instruments, so most of this is really self - learnt haha, im quite a noob in electronic music production this is only my second attempt at creating one, so yeah i still need to learn much The synth is sylenth1 , i composed the melody myself (im not a musician so its just me putting notes on the piano roll and go by "feel" rather than actual music theory rules) there are no sample packs being used in this - except for a layer of kick because the drum kit in my school does not deliver a kick that is powerful enough for a dance music production thanks for the feedback! will definitely look into those snares this is a slightly revised mastered version: http://soundcloud.com/ivan-zilch/deadmau5-raise-your-weapon I didnt want to overdo it so I just did extra EQ, cleaned up some messy parts, multi-band compression, multi band exciter etc thanks again for listening, really appreciate it |
| Myrle Tazewell 13.09.2011 | Not bad, I was expecting something more different, So many dub step versions are already out there. I'm no expert on production since I haven't gone to a school; just a lot of internet, but that snare need's more presence, overall good quality, Love the synth at 2:46, what plug in did you use for that? And are the vocals an acapella ? |
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