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Hey to all music producers. I just finished, my first serious production and music composition. it's a Heartbreak Ballad, recorded in my little home studio. I hope to get all the critical feedback from You. Thanks for everyone to checking the track.

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Max Marks
Feb 14
Hey, Łukasz Białek.
I understand, that this song is more about emotions and a message. But I have a couple thoughts that could be helpful.
1. Lead vocal better to locate in center. In some accasions full R+L.
2. Drums could be louder.
3. Life perfomace it's great, but don't be shy and make some cut work to make your rhythm tighter. Bass guitar and drums are pulse of the song, so you don't have to make them robotic, but it could be better.
4. Track Animation. Try to make vocal solo in some parts (without double track), in some parts add this double track, in some parts add very wide doubles or intervals. and so on. Some of this tips could work and make make your song more interesting.
5. A couple notes in guitar somo are out of harmony or even tonallity.

But, after all, your song is about a message and you produced it good for this purpose. Hope that your song got to this main listner.
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Thank You for Your feedback. I will try to consider next time when I produce a song.
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Matthias K.
Feb 14
Hey there, cool song! Piano needs more lows, maybe put an octave in. coming from the bass intro, there's frequencies missing now.
And as Max suggested the vocal could be mono at times, especially in verses. Groove doesn't sound tight, I would add some warping / quantisation here and there, if you like to keep it human do it manually, but it's swimming a bit too much:)

Also vocal could have more reverb! I'm sure you can make it all work! Hopefully you can post an update soon

2:26 is great by the way, drum fill then guitar solo. Nice!
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Dylan Neal
Feb 15
Hi Łukasz, this song is very nice! I am not a fan of this genre normally, but I listened to the end of the song because it is good.
I only have two things to say about it:

1. The natural feel of this song is really good. I do not agree with quantising the drums, they sound way better with this slightly imperfect timing. In this case, the emotion of the song is served much better by the loose feel. Thank you for keeping it natural!

2. Even though the loose feel is great throughout the rest of the song, the timing of the guitar part which starts at 1:03 is not good. It ruins the flow of the song because it sounds out of time with everything else. Elements in your song can all have loose timing, as long as they are all basically in time with each other!
Therefore, I suggest that you re-record that guitar part.
Or you could spend hours and hours trying to manually quantise it to perfection while still trying to sound human... when you could just spend 10 minutes re-recording it :)

One more thing after listening to this song a second time, Matthias could be right about the piano needing more low frequencies.

Great work overall!
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Thank You so much Dylan! You help me tremendously! Yes, You have a right with this guitar it's out of tempo, I recorded it again and add a little of delay and added octave lower piano chords. Thank You for Your feedback and appreciation!
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Hay Lukas... congrats... I loved the song (listened full and realy enjoyed it). For me, the most important things are there: A really cool song and pretty nice vocals but the production, in my opinion, could be better to get all the juice out the song. Overall instrumental arrangement could be more energetic and mellow. The song is heart break, right ;)

The song is real good man... give it another try with the same vocals and just a nylon guitar and a GOOD midi string library or synth. Keep in minimalisic but super good. Remember that less is more. Ed Sheeran rocks with only a guitar and his voice. If you decide to give this a second go, be sure to tag me.

Cheers and keep the music flowing !!!
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Bro the song is really amazing, I really loved the composition, the structure, everything artistically saying, you also brought a lot of emotional tone to it, and I think this emotional tone could be emphasized with some changes on the mix and master. technically speaking I think you could add a little bit more saturation, bringing more excitent to the drums with some compression and saturation, also bring more of the high end of the guitar, then it would sound more open and more emotional, the vocal could also benefit from some careful saturation. But I really loved the track, I would not change anything artistically, I would just work more on the mixing and master. And if you want help with that I am offering this work for only 25 dollars, mix and master together.
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Anton Urban
Feb 17
There's a very slight but permanent comb filter on the vocals, maybe due to a chorus effect or just phase problems, which make them sound tinny, well the guitar sounds fine and full though. Overall a good sound quality and clarity, very beautiful and confident voice. Good job!
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Thanks to All this is my first bigger production that's why mix isn't prefect, I have to learn a lot but Your feedback helps me. I am starting to do other project in other genre with different vocalist but I will take Your opinions to consider!