If anyone likes Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, New Order, etc, consider checking out my new song. I usually only made instrumentals, so doing vocals is new to me. Have at it.https://on.soundcloud.com/hyC6qDhuXKDTh7bGsx
C*nny
>>132119468Wrong board, Fred Durst
pretty good actually, you've got some nice ideas
>>132119650Thanks anon, I appreciate it
>>132119404I might later but I would heavily recommend you focus on trying to find a club, bar or space in general that attracts fans of that stuff and directly try to connect with them and put them onto your stuff. Promoting yourself in person is way more important than promoting yourself on 4chan and will help you form more helpful connections with others
>>132119404>>132119650obvious samefag
>>132119404it's a little stock
>>132119404it's on the threshold of competency but it's just too generic to make a solid impression. it seems like the track is supposed to hit hard, but the timid vocals sink it.
>>132120558It was not. Suck my balls>>132120551Oh I’m way too new and don’t have enough material to get that serious about it. Not at this moment >>132120656Shit that’s just my sing-talking voice lmao. I feel like anything that’s not yelling will result in “timid vocals”. And by that point it really just sounds like Trent Reznor which I want to avoid. I might retry the vocals again though
>>132120564I get that. I’m just tired of the overly glitchy and complex shit that most synth music has become. This is trying to be an 80s song that isn’t released in the 80s
>>132120715it's not the sing-talking, it's the lack of confidence. it's most evident in the vocals but it's also present in the whole instrumentation and mixing. it just lacks punch. the track is at 4 or 5 when it should be at least at 7 or 8.
>>132119404masonic image. You lost satan.
>>132120771it's called optical art.
>>132120760Yeah I decided I gotta redo the vocals. My Scarlett interface outputs my mic so damn quiet for some reason. Been having issues with that in the past. I have to shout everything in order to get my vocals louder than the instrumental. Anyways yeah, I wanna turn the bass down a notch and maybe add another synth layer
>>132120760I disagree with this anon. I mean I agree the track is at a 4 or 5 punch-wise, but I like the chilled out vibe, like early John Maus. Not all music needs to be in-your-face.Agree with the other anons about the vocals though. Sounds like you don't mean what you're sing-saying. You don't need to be louder but be more theatrical.
>>132120819>My Scarlett interface outputs my mic so damn quiet for some reason. Been having issues with that in the past. I have to shout everything in order to get my vocals louder than the instrumental.You should compress and amplify your vocals in your DAW.
>>132119404>https://on.soundcloud.com/hyC6qDhuXKDTh7bGsxI have to sign in or create and account to listen? Sorry, no.good luck tho
>>132120819you're entering the zone of diminishing returns by trying to salvage a middling track. i'd suggest moving on to a different project, or to put it in a shelf and revisit later. what you have in this track is a cool little throwaway emulation of 80's industrial synthpop but nothing more. don't get hung up over it.
>>132120866even if anon is going for a chilled out vibe, there's a lack of dynamics to make it interesting for the whole track. for me, it's more droning than chilled out as is.
its sounds very amateurish bass swallowing up the drums and the synth at the end. vocals sound unenthusiastic. it's very minimal and skeletal which is probably intentional but i'm a maximalist i like lots of shit and layers so its not for me. everything sounds kinda cheap and dry. but everyone has to start somewhere so keep at it.
>>132120903You don't, you can x out of that
>>132120872Yeah I do. My mic only started acting up this past year >>132120914Nah, it’s worth it. There isn’t enough of that sound back then and especially now. Synth music in general now is typically overly extra or downright schizophrenic sounding. It’s good to have some poppy melodies in there
>>132120963>Yeah I do. My mic only started acting up this past yearOkay but why would that make your vocals quieter than the instruments? Too fuzzy if you amplify it louder than the backing track?
>>132120963ok mate
>>132120933I’ll give you the bass and vocals needing to be reworked as I mentioned earlier, but the minimal and skeletal is something I’d argue a bit. Many Depeche Mode songs are that level of minimal, but get praised greatly. Think Puppets, Policy Of Truth. Anyways, it’s not a surprise that we who post songs here are amateurs lol. I’m just glad it’s got melodies, and isn’t schizo pretentiousness
>>132121007you're going to have to work out and sweat quite a bit to take your track to policy of truth-level. the technical gap is immense.
>>132121007policy of truth is far from minimal. especially the chorus and the outro. the sound design and mixing is immaculate on that song. and to be honest your song has very little melody. it's rather monotonous.
>>132121007my suggestion is to lean into the skeletal/minimal. The drums are the weakest part for me, they sound super out-of-the-box DAW. What happens if you pare the percussion down to something extremely minimal, keeping all the other tracks the same?
>>132121039Not saying it will be better than that song, but it can easily be as in depth as it. I’ll just add another synth layer to give the song more bite and maybe add some percussive sound effects in more places. I’ll practice the vocals to get more edge and refinement too. It’ll come together
>>132121065>but it can easily be as in depth as it.
>>132121060The drums are samples off an old Roland drum machine>>132121057I think the melodies are pretty decent for synthpop. There’s only so many synthpop melodies one can come up with in 2026, you know
>>132121092Lmao you’re right. I listened to it again with earbuds on for the first time in a bit, and I’m not gonna reach those heights. It’s more in the realm of really early Depeche Mode and some New Order
I’ll say it’s better than most of what’s posted on the other shill threads.
>>132121135yeah, i'm not trying to be an asshole, but depeche mode had a great songwriter, three guys to bounce ideas of and get feedback, two or three dedicated producers and engineers and half a million dollars of state of the art technology in a studio. you're on your lonesome with a daw and blown out ears.
>>132121189Yep, but these threads are good cause I realize there are things that call for going back to the drawing board
