MegaTone

Glad you enjoyed it!

They released a massive pack of stems for the competition a little over a month ago (or two months? I lose track of time easily). I think it had the stems for like 10 different tracks by various artists on the roster. Unfortunately if you're interested the competition ended earlier today, but they might still have the stems up for DL if you look around a bit.

Haha, thanks for checking it out!

Thank you!

Thanks for the offer, but I'll decline this time. I feel it would be better if I worked through these problems myself.

Armada yeah, that would be a dream. Or at least Who's Afraid of 138? maybe.

Mixing definitely needs work yes. My problem for this track was that I did a mix down, went into mastering with a reference track but then found that I wanted/had to make huge mixing changes. And that happened several times. Oh well, its all a learning experience; each track should get better and better.

Regardless, glad you enjoyed it!

Ha, yeah, going from my recent projects to this really highlights the highs. And now I got a subwoofer so it sounds even worse (although that could just be my bad adjustment said subwoofer).

Thanks for the fave!

Thank you!

Yeah, most likely too compressed. I'm still in the habit of trying to master for loudness, although not quite as badly as I used to. Still cramming it through a compressor before brick-walling it; I'd imagine I could ease up on the compression and use a normal limiter instead if I work on it a bit.

Thanks for your comment!

Harsh reviews are what make us better, so really you can pick away at whatever you like. I'm not gonna pretend I'm that good, as I've only been doing this for a year and a bit, so criticism really helps (provided people actually state what's wrong, of course).

Thanks very much for the review!

Yeah, dynamics and over-compression are some things I have issues with, and retrospectively I can think of about ten different tweaks I would've done regarding the 'master' compressor and the gain, not to mention the EQ.

Regarding the style, its more or less my interpretation of the 'Dubstep' I grew up to (despite "growing up" being only four or five years back). I enjoyed some of the screechy-growly stuff that people put out, but I was always really impressed with the more 'melodic' side of dubstep. If you're interested, the track "Blue" by Gemini is one of the key tracks I keep in mind; the side-chained pads on the beat, a great chord progression and just a little of that gritty bass to keep it dubstep.

Whew, ramble over. And once again, thanks for the review!

The original acapella was under the 'Trap' section, so I felt that it would probably best suit a trap-style sound. But I've never really listened to trap, hence the Dubstep.

Thanks!

The comp itself actually finished at the end of June, I just haven't removed the featured tag from this yet... derp. Unfortunately I didn't win (one of the winners did say he like my track though :3), but hey, I can only get better from here, right? I'll just have to keep working on my production.