Needs Vocals But it sounds promising (Unmastered)
#Melodic Minimal House
young lake
tight cobalt
Ya a proper vocal will help carry the tune. Or lead sounds or something
Hard to give feedback when its not mastered. In the future, you can do a very basic master before posting here. At the minimum bring the volume up by pushing the song into a limiter with 1-2dB gain reduction.
Would like to see some more evolution in the drums, maybe some fills, extra claps/snare hits going off
The song really desperately needs a "standout" moment - something people can remember the song back and make it stand out from the other songs they might here in a set
that could be the vocals, but i think some fun synths would help
its well produced but has a very backing track kinda feel
(no offense meant in any way - hope this helps)
Basic master
linear phase EQ to roll off the extreme lows (under 20-30hz depending on key) and extreme highs above 18-20000hz. A regular EQ is fine if you don't haeve linear phase.
Clipper to catch occasional peaks. We aren't clipping everything here... peaks must be controlled earlier on in the mix. Just want to cut off 1dB here and there when it spikes a lot. You can use a free clipper like Buzzcut or Freeclipper.
Glue compressor with 30 attack, 100 release, doing 1-2 dB of compression.
After the glue compressor boost the lows and highs by 1-2 dB as well, it gives it the classic smile EQ sound, and most songs tend to need this.
Some people like to throw an exciter or tape saturation here
Then a quick release limiter to catch occassional peaks, doing 1 dB MAX (stock limiter is OK)
another limiter with auto release doing 1-2 dB max. Fabfilter or somethign that isn't stock is ideal