This was my first Progressive House track I made using Ableton Live Intro + VST.
Please check out the song at this link:
SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
I would love to read some feedback, so don’t hold back.
Thanks.
my first bit of advice, and seems to be a pretty generic opinion across the scene would be to ditch the reverb on the kick. There are so many ways to make a kick nice and punchy, but adding a reverb isn’t it. Admittedly in this track it’s not as bad and “in ya face” as some reverbed kicks can be, but it is the first thing that jumps out. Also at 1:47 in my personal opinion i’d drop the kick, and then bring it back at 2:03.
Speaking of which, the snare at 2:03 is too reverby once again, and could be nicely compressed to fit into the track itself, rather than sounding like an overlay on the track (if that makes any sence, what so ever). at 2.19 there is an additional sound effect, which given a little more TLC could really work with the track, but as it stands does need that extra bit of love, but I think if i was given the choice to listen to the track as it is, or with it removed, i’d prefer it without. I reeeally like what you did at 3:50, bringing everything together ready for a climax. It’s done a lot in the industry, but theres a reason for that, it sounds good, and you blended it out well, but if I was to fault it I would say bring that in after a mini breakdown, rather than straight off the top of the beat.
All in all, I do think it’s a good track. It’s clever in that it takes the majority of what the indistry expects from a track, and uses what works, and that works well, but with the few minor adjustments listed above. I really do think you need to work harder on a way to getting the percussion instruments to all sit on top of one another without using so much reverb, and completely eliminating the reverb on the kick. and if you MUST use reverb on the kick for any reason what so-ever (i.e. someone has told you it really works, and for them it does), the last thing you want is for listeners to hear the reverb and be able to point it out, so try and make it as subtle as possible, and for whatever reason your using that reverb, try and focus on making sure that is the only reason the reverb is there, with no added unwanteds.
I hope the above helps, and seriously you can take it however you will, with a pinch of salt, or you can use it to try and adapt this track, or your future works, but either way if you want any advice, drop me a message. I don’t log on daily, so wont guarantee an instant response, but when I can take a listen I will, and try to provide sufficient feedback. You seem to have what it takes, I think your only downfall is understanding how to get tracks to blent well together, rathen than sitting on top of each other, i guess “stacking” would be a good word to use.
Hope this helped!
Thanks for the feedback. I’d rather have someone tell me about something wrong than not telling me at all. I’m rather new to all this, so I can honestly say I’m not totally sure about what I’m doing.
I’ll try out a few of the things that you suggested and take a listen. Thanks again for the feedback. It helps a lot.
obviously everything is tended to on a “unique” basis as everyone has their own style, there’s just a few things that need to be followed by industry standards, and for the style of the track, mixing the track from one track to another, be-it another track into this, or this track into another. For a couple of years I failed to realise that, so I completely appreciate where you are at the moment, and hope this bit of advice also helps for your future productions 
I haven’t listened to this track as my work won’t let me stream songs directly from soundcloud.com (but I can stream them if they are embedded in a post - strange!).
Anyway, it sounds like good advice from Ronnie. I’ve never heard a prog track with noticable reverb on the kick. Maybe in techno, but even then I believe the kick reverb is sampled back into the track, very tightly controlled, tuned and lengthened to fit the mix. For anyone that is not experienced with music production I would advise keeping reverb off your kick, it is a surefire way to muddy up your bottom end.
Sorry if this has already been said but you need a bigger snare. Its too small and doesn’t add much to the track. Do like the lead/bass tho, sounds great. I’d add a vocal to, even just some female ‘ahhhs’ in the build up to emphasise the drop would be great.
Good work tho pal