Also, the "melody" part you start with should just drop out all together at some point. Then that pad sound in there should keep floating along with the sub and then paint something entirely new for the listener that will go along with it.
This could be a problem if your sample is complex. EQing might not get it. It sound like a phase piano tinkling over a nice warm pad. Perhaps you could re-create the sample so that you can make the parts sound separately and cleanly. Having your track based around one "complex" sample makes it sort of hard to "break down", no?
Try soloing just one track, any track, and then play or find something to accompany it. Even if it sounds completely different to you. Add as much as you can around the one soloed part and then
At 18:21 -0500 12/9/02, kevinacameron wrote:
well you need to add something when you take it out, like a beepy synth line or something... and instead of taking it out completly, just try to add a lowpass filter on it or something...-----Original Message----- From: Vince Royer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 2:40 PM To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: Why You Get Stuck :) I guess this is a reply to my post about being stuck. It's very informative, and I welcome the tips. However, it pretty much completely sidetracks what I was getting at with my post. I have listened and broken down tons of tracks, and I now understand how things are put together. That's not really what I was having problems with. I see not very many people actually listened to the track I posted. I have a melody which is an obvious sample I grabbed from somewhere. I really like the sample and the way it sits with a drumnbass break. I put it through a phaser and it made me happy. I laid some nice drums over it, half snabbed out of a break, and half my own creation. I think it sounds great. The problem is that I've tried laying a bassline under it, but it just sounds horrible. So I just beefed up the bassdrums and I'm happy with that. So I've got my main theme, some nice percussion, but I'm just having trouble with the variation. I think it sounds really good, but if the whole track sounds like this it's gonna get boring. Should I fill it out with samples here and there? I find if I stop the main riff, the whole song sounds like it just dissapears. Must be because it's a pretty complex sample. It has a melody laid on top of a stringy landscape. I wish I could stop the melody for a few bars and just keep the strings and the drums, but it's one sample so I can't seperate it. If you guys could please just listen to it and tell me what you think! http://members.shaw.ca/vinister/Vinister-MonteCarloRMX.mp3 Thanks
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