First track after some courses!

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I have done a couple of course here and started my own track after finshing them. I feel like I have gotten to the point where I need a fresh set of ears on how it sounds and what I can change. I feel like i need to work on intro/exitro, and mixing a bit so advise there is helpful as well.br
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Any advise you can give on the track, synths mixing, arrangement is appreciated as wellbr
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I hope you guys like it and have some good feedback!br
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it sounds like youve run the whole thing through a distortion pedal… i would ease back on what ever overdrive/distortion/compression you have going. then i will listen again.

Ok phil i believe I have fixed it, it looked like it was a problem on my mastering chain. I also changed the bleep around as well since i didn’t like the sound on that.br
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Its sounding much cleaner now, but if it still sounds distorted here is my current mastering chain, Gain-SSLComp-LinphasEq-Ozone5-Oxford limiter, since that is what I would guess my issue would be. br
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Once again thanks for the help!

turn all yu mastering off for now so i can get a better idea of you mix first… when that sounds good then we can work on mastering.

Alrighty, I have turned off the mastering chain, and reuploaded it.

Not a bad effort that to be fair mate. Could definitely use more variety in the different sections though. The main hook is playing throughout pretty much, it’s a decent little melody but too much of it is overkill. Try keeping that for the drop alone maybe and figuring out either a variation for the intro/outro or a simpler version. Also, when you bring that other lead sound in halfway through the first drop I think it could really benefit and lift the track with a clever counterpoint melody used for that sound instead of just mirroring the 1st melody. Just some idea’s though :slight_smile:

Cool thanks for the honest feedback man. I was worried about the lack of variety and figured it could be a problem. br
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So i’ll go back and see what I could do with the layering. I was also figuring a arp would help alot to just need to figure out where to put it.br
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Once again thanks for the feedback appreciate it man!