HI,
I would love to get some constructive feedback on this track that just got rejected
https://app.box.com/s/4lo1cz8htbx589u2l0o0ciaegoemhgx7
All the best,
Carl
HI,
I would love to get some constructive feedback on this track that just got rejected
https://app.box.com/s/4lo1cz8htbx589u2l0o0ciaegoemhgx7
All the best,
Carl
Hey,
I like your track a lot, was it a soft reject?
Personally I think your main/some of acoustic guitar sounds are just a little too bright and aggressive and upfront in the mix.
I would try to smoothen them out a little, I think you might be using the Kontact Guitar Strum or something similar for some of the guitar sounds.
Hereās how I would try to do that. (I ofter find that sometimes there isnāt one answer so this is just my take on things, and hopefully other people will chime in too with some other ways to help?.
Maybe EQ the highs down a little, or
Maybe pull back the transients with transient master or something similar or
Maybe use a bit of reverb to pull the guitar sounds back into the mix as opposed to being so upfront.
Maybe some sounds need level balancing / turning down.
Maybe itās a mix of all of the above.
I hope this helps in some way but good luck with it.
Agree with @OceansAudio
I think you did a very good jobā¦
I would add some sustain in your guitarā¦ itās nice!!
Ah! once I got rejected a track with same ācajonā percussionā¦ O_oā¦ maybe curators donāt like cajon?? or it was just my non-fit-commercial track?
humm a little bit abrupt final. but Iām not sure itās a problem hereā¦
Good luck!
Thanks!
I wanted it to be really bright and upfront, since I made the opposite mistake with too little brightness beforeā¦
Ill have a look at the transients via my compressors.
Well spotted re Kontakt. I thought it was well hidden in thereā¦ Not good that it is that obvoius however. Should I replace it with a miced guitar?
It doesnt say soft rejected, so I guess its hard. Doesnt live up to quality standardsā¦
Did you have a hard rejected song and what did you do with it? Scrap it, change it, other library or other?
Thanks again!
Carl
Thanks!
I also like Cajon because I think it gives a good indie hipster vibe.
With sustain, do you mean reverb, compression or something else.
What do you do with tracks that get rejected because of quality level? Feels like a waste of time to throw them away?
Cheers,
Carl
Hey,
No problems.
I guess itās tough because we donāt know the real reason why it was rejected and say you made the changes based on the suggestions I made it might still get rejected.
With the brightness, if your last one wasnāt bright enough and this one is possibly too bright in my opinion, maybe find somewhere in the middle, if you want?
Also, something you could do is open a new project file drop in the .Wav or .mp3 of your file and also download a preview of a similar song on AJ. Then open a frequency analyser on both and see how your top end compares with other tracks.
But, again this might not be the issue the person who rejected your track had so, I hear what your saying, sometimes I make mixing/writing decisions based on what I really want and thats perfectly ok and what you absolutely should do as it is your art at the end of the day.
I hope that helps!
Also Re the Kontakt thing, You hear this in lots of tracks including mine, people who buy the track wonāt necessarily know or care so I guess in that sense it doesnāt really matter because whatās important is that the song fits their project and works for them. It might just come down to a conscience thing for you, if it bothers you then change it, if not thenā¦
As a comparison If you think about say house music I can hear along with everyone else in the world an 808 or 707 drum machine a mile away but if it sounds good it sounds good? (iām not sure if this is a good comparison or not to be honest)
Finally, with the what should you do with the song now itās hard rejected. My advice would be try to learn from it, improve, move forward. ā If you can learn from this then all is good!!
I donāt believe in āquality levelāā¦ wellā¦ itās obvious we all are not perfect and sometimes I do some ā¦ but mostly I think itās about āfitsā or donāt āfitsāā¦
Maybe your track donāt fits here but fits well in other places
V true.
Hi,
I think I actually analyzed the crap out of this one and also with the latest Ozone 8 Advanced software, but I still agree with you that itās on the bright side.
As you say I donāt know exactly why it was rejected. Getting rejected is maybe good training in itself
You have well trained ears. I hope Ill get there.
Thanks! I need the encouragement since I just decided to quit my well paid executive job to spend my days dedicated to music instead
Good choice and good luck!!!
Hi, currently I am on my laptop and have nothing else to listenā¦ and canāt turn the volume up as everyone is sleeping. I gave your track its chance, andā¦ I hear two guitars, they sound a bit too mechanical, but the main problem would be that I barely hear the harmony behind the main melody; I have the feeling a bass would be needed, but it is another guitar that makes the bass.
To me, on my poor listening system, the problem would be that the guitar that plays this background arpeggio is way way too loud, it is louder than everything else. So if I donāt pay attention, and am listening in a noisy environment, or at low volume on a bad system, the only thing I hear is this guitar arpeggioā¦
Iāll really have to listen to it tomorrow on another system, as I know this is a stupid test I made, but listening at low volume and on sh*tty speakers can reveal problems on a mix
Now, for the hard rejections, I donāt know how other handle this, but they clearly say that you should not resubmit the trackā¦ I am wondering why they would hard reject if the problem is only the mixā¦?
Agree with you @frozenjazz maybe with a lower arpeggio could improve the final mixā¦
He cannot resubmit the track but can do something similar with a different harmonic progression, and this time taking attention to this topic as you said beforeā¦ it could be a nice training ā¦ Here is plenty of similar tracks with different versions and sounds,
Listening this morning with my studio headphones - well, it sounds better, but the problem is the same: lack of bass (it could be a piano, or a real bass), the arpeggio guitar is too loud, and the piano is too quiet, and lacks some reverb or ambianceā¦
@OceansAudio, @MusicLFiles, @frozenjazz,
Thanks to you all for being so helpful! I will get right back to this track and change it around based on all your feedback. I think itās important to deal with the issues in a song before moving on, so you really learn for your next projects. Then Iāll see what I will do with it.
All the best,
Carl
HI,
I apologize for my English.
āThe entry that you used at the beginning of the track requires that this instrument be played several times in the track.ā
Excellent remark indeedā¦ if you use this āreversed pianoā that everyone else is using (me included :)), at least use the ānon reversedā piano chord in your track