My first track let me know how to spice it up!

Hey all. This is my first song using Ableton Live and all in all my first EDM track ever. Let me know what you guys think or any tips or suggestions to make it more interesting. I’m new to EDM in general but I think the song is along the lines of Prog House or Trance. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks for the listen.

http://soundcloud.com/bradford1983/they-owe-me-one

Should be proud fella great first track, you have plenty of interesting elements going on and the structure works nicely, I’d only suggest working the automation abit, maybe a low cut filter in that main breakdown to bring out that drop. You know hands in the air then boom moment. Great track though, keep it up.



Danny.

good looking out man thanks. i messed with some automation and got that filter sweep in there and it makes quite the difference! thanks again :smiley:

Cool mate, let me know when you post the tweaked version I’d love to hear it.  What you producing in by the way?

I use Ableton Live 8 and an Akai APC40 and I mapped some of the knobs on my MIDI controller for the sends on some tracks.

Sounding nice mate, slightly refined, more than slightly improved. 

You should try and knock up some kind of glitched vocal, think it’d go really well with a couple of the elements you have in there, especially that main stab.

nice i’ll try that. it’s payday for me so i’m thinking of buying a vocal pack from loopmasters…any thoughts on where to grab a vocal sample if i don’t pick up that kit?

I’d go and findsomeone on Gumtree, there areplenty of good vocalists out there willing to get involved in projects for the sakes of getting noticed.

here’s the updated mix with some chopped up vocals and cleaned up automation. feedback is appreciated <EMBED height=81 type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=“100%” src=http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fbradford1983%2Fthey-owe-me-one allowscriptaccess=“always”> They Owe Me One by bradford1983