Reply To: Feedback on Jazzy DnB
GENIE HQShowing off another side to your tastes and skills and doing it in such a classy and timeless way.
The processing on the vocals and sax are really nice, you have created a vintage and very authentic 70’s vinyl esque sound with that, which is not easy to do, the sax riff is really nice, infectious, memorable and undertsated.
As a piece of music it works, the arrangement, sound pallate, mix and tone. The beauty of these ‘vibes’ tunes is not to over smash the mix and obsess about mixdown, it doesn’t need it; let the character, human-ness and feeling move the listener. It does however need to be of a certain standard of loudness and clarity and this is basically there as a demo. Some possible pointers:
* Reverb on the intro vocal is perhaps a bit much / full on to have full frequency, maybe high-passing that moment might help?
* The sax riff is lush, rerally nice maybe try experimenting with some versions of it a bit more produced, some kind of textural trickery, different pitched moments, FX, just to see if you can get a few where the listener thinks “how has he done that?!” makes the ear curious. Just to experiment, might not come out well, but could be interesting…
* The beats are nice, lovely break, natural feel, Maybe just a bit more heat, push, thump in them, but really important not to overdo a tune like this. Reference with calibre to get a nice balance. Maybe having the washy rushy rides that come in later a bit more prominent might help the energy
* The bass is nice, but could maybe do with a bit more polish and movement in the overtones, just to make it pop a bit, but it’s not much. The bass could be done so many ways in tune like this, funky heavy spacious grooves like DLR, Dubby vibes like calibre, Longer tones like you have.
* It would be nice to hear a verison with more phrases and words from the singer, but less is often more. but this track sould quite easilly become more of a song rather than a track with vocal samples. Eirther direction could work though.
Overall this is a great tune, very little to critique as a demo, the last thing you’d want to do is mix the soul out of it..
You are really showing an impressive diversity and skill in production and musicality. keep it up!