Made my 1st little drop in Ableton. need help making it better

[winged barn]

Ive been messing around with ableton for about a week now and have watched countless tutorials and studio sessions. I am slowly developing my ear and just finding out what sounds right, last night I made this little drop, and I think its a cool Idea so I want to develop it but im not sure what direction to go. My goal is to make it as euphoric as possible.

Any critiques/recommendations? Im open to literally anything, just trying to improve.

[fervent rose]

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[winged barn]

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[real coral]

The stereofield of that vocal is super weird, it's all over the place. Did you add any effects to it or did it come like this?

Cool first song, just watch a lot of tutorials and keep creating

keep the clap, dont layer it with an open hat

the hat on every beat is very static, needs something to change over time or use some different sounds. All of a sudden there's barely any drums on the drop, why's that?

And get rid of that kick, make sure you get some high quality samples. This kick is really bad. And make sure to sidechain the bass to the kick, you can only have 1 of the 2 playing at the same time 😄

[winged barn]

I added like a little chorus too it because it felt really flat.

[winged barn]

I stopped it for like a beat right before the drop, and the bass doesnt go on for the last chord in the progression

[winged barn]

Where can I get samples? Ive just been using ableton stuff messing around.

Again im really just trying to develop my ear, messing around with everything and figuring out what works and what doesnt but this is great insight

[real coral]

There's no bass in this? Damn, really long kick then haha

[winged barn]

no there is bass

the kick goes on for like half a beat

and i did sidechain the bassw

[real coral]

Lower the mix of the chorus

and your chorus is too wide and too much movement, the settings need some work

[real coral]

Are you willing to pay or do you want only free stuff

[winged barn]

mostly free for now

[real coral]

Yes np! Hope I don't seem negative, just very direct feedback haha. About to go to bed so I wanna be quick

[winged barn]

lol dw thats exactly what I wanted

any idea for sounds I can add?

I want to try to make it into a full song

[real coral]

Check out evo sounds, theproducerschool, sonance sounds

They've all got some free stuff. Also check out freesounds.org

Not much good quality stuff on there though. That site is mostly for sound effects for video editing

Or something like samplefocus.com

Those 2 sites are databases with loads of sounds that people upload. But again, a lot of garbage in there

[fervent panther]

tech house market

[real coral]

Definitely more drums with better samples. More ear candy, maybe a counter melody. Check out this guy, perfect channel for you https://youtu.be/EXx9At3iUOw?si=sY6Dw4sfcRW_SqUo

[winged barn]

your the goat

thank you