Why was my track rejected?

Envato Authors AudioJungle
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Hi to anyone reading this. I recently uploaded a track to audiojungle that i spent quite some time on, and it was unfortunately rejected. I was wandering if anyone could listen to it and tell me what to improve about it. thanks :slight_smile: . I will take critisism.
Listen here:

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Hi, thanks for the feedback about my track;) As for your track: I think this track is too long, each part of the track takes a long time, you can reduce everything by 1/3; plus it seems that the track is about to open in the higher frequencies, but no, everything seems to sound “far away”, there are no instruments with high frequencies, I think this is a problem in the mix. Summarizing, I see two problems: 1) Length, that is, long development. 2) Mixing, the track sounds middle, there is no breathing, but it is created at higher frequencies. This is again my subjective opinion :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the feedback. What instruments do you suggest i should add for the higher frequencies? Should i narrow the synths aswell so they dont sound so far away?

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Yes, they’ll bring the main lead closer, raise their high frequencies, make hi-hat brighter, the piano sounds great, in general, the composition’s brightness is not enough. I listen to the track in the monitor headphones and still there are no high frequencies, but although there should be a lot of them in the headphones) maybe you have something to monitor in the studio, or this is your artistic move, in any case it’s not a commercial sound, here this is tough)

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Thank you so much, I will look out for this in the future aswell as fixing it in this track. Hopefully it will be accepted the second time round. :grin::+1:

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a little long intro, motive and melody stands out very strongly, for a video is not very good, because of this you got reject. Try to make item without access beautiful things like melody, chords, fx and many more.

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You can’t download them again;)

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Wrong mixing. Sound is muddy, too many low mid frequencies. Piano interferes with the synth pluck arp. Plucked strings have too much reverb and no brightness, etc.

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Thank you :+1:

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Generally, your track has a dark mixing sound, I like it personally but unfortunately on AJ I wouldn’t take such risk, it’s more fun to enjoy your track than to use it commercially.
the thing about making music on AJ, you need to lower your expressive/artistic bar a little and focus more on the functional bar.

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Cool, thanks for the feedback :slight_smile:

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Sound is muddy.

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Okđź‘Ť

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hey!
nice idea, I like the sound at the start, maybe a little bit low and dark, but I like it. I listened a reversed cymbal at 0:59 that sounded weird to me. I would do this more clear. I really like this dark sound, as ambient I think this could work well in productions. I think you need a simple and clear melodic line, In general it sounds quite repetitive to me. You do some voices but in some point they are competing with each other… which could be a little bit confusing.
More things… I noticed, one melodic line (quite simple and barely distinguisahble, discret) is in the same pitch as the main chord? Maybe you can change this and put them in a different pitch height, as they have a different role… just for try…
hope can helps
Good luck and beers! :slight_smile: :beer: :beer: :beer:

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Cool, thanks for the feedback :+1: . What sort of riser sound do you suggest instead of the cymbal?

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maybe the cymbal is ok, but the reverb… too much… my opinion.

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Cool. I’ll still try and find some better risers anyways. Cheers for the feedback :+1: :slightly_smiling_face:.

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this track is a technical marriage! the lack of high frequencies in the track indicates that you have problematic control (you don’t hear that you have a track in which there are so few high frequencies that this is unacceptable to music) - it will never be sold (and you won’t receive anything with such quality)!
I am a sound engineer and I recommend that you professionally deal with the control (monitor and amplifier) and then make music. (you cannot mix music on headphones)

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Thank you for the feedback, don’t really understand the term “technical marriage”, but i will listen to my music through monitors as well. Will definately keep a closer look on the mixing in future. :+1:

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“This track is technical marriage” means that everything is in order with the music: someone may need such a melody and arrangements, but someone may buy it … But! The reviewer strongly rejected this, since technical quality is not acceptable for commercial sales. No one will buy it! No treble!