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The second one, then.

Nice!

Uprising, I had the chance to hear both on earbuds at work, unfortunately I wasn't able to hear both on my home speakers. It sounds good, seems like the bottom end needs to tighten a little but as for advice on how I'm not sure I'm the right guy at the moment

Zshare took them down already, what the f**k!

This is a tune that I started Sunday night after leaving my buddy's place. Its *bigtime* incomplete, as in I've just been toying with trying to lock down a loop right and really all I did here was open it up to start with the main melody, drums kick in 16 bars later, secondary higher melody 16 bars later, and then 32 bars after that I have something that's a bit like a one-time mood/melodic effect that just adds a bit to the tone and tenor. As for the drum loop I already have three variations and plan on doing things like tape stopping for the break, getting some waterfall type wooshes in it, but first things first - the mix is either viable or it isn't:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nozzee
(reuploaded to Sendspace because Zshare are bags)

The challenge with this tune; getting this much low end to crisp up, even then it still may be balanced too low and if I try to swing the center of gravity for the entire track up maybe 200 or 300 hz I really lose the whole ambience I was trying for. I've got one last idea to save it which is to see if I can compress the drums and get that to work right. I really would rather work in this kind of frequency range and if I can make it work so much the better.

BTW Uprising, thanks for pointing out that site - gives people the option of listening and deciding whether they want to download.

link's dead

Sounding good... carry on

Moog, another thing, if were thinking about having any type of mix/writing comp around here - I can see there's at least two on board, possibly four or five, ideally we should see if we can get at least seven or eight people committed to the idea. Point being - if we can get that we can just about make it a fixture if it works out well.

On another note - I microfunked the drums in that track last night, its actually sounding a lot better on the low end, mids, etc. and I'll keep working with parallel/NY compression until I can get it to sit the way I want it to. That low pad was a bit of a challenge since it sits square in the 200-700hz dirt zone but I was surprised, a good multiband compressor did wonders on that.

I almost think we need to get a few things together first:

a) the person who'll be committing the stems to say that they have them ready.
b) at least five or six people saying that their signed on for the competition.

If you have those two things, have a place to get the stems, and post the participant list I think it would be more likely to get people going. I've tried motivating people to do things like this in the past and without exception its fallen flat. Seems like you need to have a fair amount of momentum to start out with before people really believe that its happening.

If you are gonna do the contest, please include this short (I hope it will be) fancy techno lead thing I made from scratch (it's 140 bpm) :

http://temp-share.com/show/2gFHKrR78

I want to hear it in a track that someone else has made, would be cool.