https://youtu.be/_of9Mj4eP0w 1:13
1:43
2:29
3:30
4:32
The flute jumps in.
6:03
The timestamps will be a few seconds out, by the way.
So listen 3 seconds after the timestamp too.
7:18
8:52
9:23
15:16
15:44 and that's it. @weak jolt
#Can This Mashup Be Fixed or Does it Need to Be Entirely Recreated?
wild frigate
weak jolt
Aight give me a bit and I'll get back to you about it later.
Also what is off about those timestamps? What do you want it to sound like instead? Give as much detail as you can.
wild frigate
Okay, sure.
Well, at 1:13, the synth crashes in because the guy making the mashup left one of the drums in and didn't paste the synth without the drums.
At 1:43, the drums come in without any lead-up to them coming in.
At 2:29, the cymbals clash for the flute to come in. It isn't gradual.
At 3:30, the flute loop crashes in again. It's not looped correctly.
At 4:32, it fails to loop the flute again.
At 6:03, the climax comes in when it doesn't feel the song is climaxing. It is too sudden. This one is subtle but yeah.
'To land' at 7:18 and 7:21 comes in whilst the flute is still in the interlude. They don't feel like they naturally meet each other.
At 9:23 'Come spread your wings and fly' comes in again when the song is in its interlude (I dunno what it's called but the slow bit) and is too sudden. The song needs to pick up speed again before it comes in. It also starts on a soft beat, which feels off.
At 15:16, the song goes Beat 4, 4, or it may be a 2, hard to tell, but that doesn't fit. The beats need to be replaced here with its 1, 2, 3, 4 after the 4th beat ends. They pasted the wrong segment to loop it.
And at 15:29 they loop it wrong again. I think the beat trips again.
Then at 15:44, the beat is ever so slightly off. Not sure how to fix it, though.
And at 18:02, the drums suddenly stop. It seems jarring to me. Or is that stylistic?
weak jolt
Many of these aren't actually "mistakes" they're just things you would have done differently. For example there's no rule about flutes always coming in gradually. That's a you thing. I'd recommend making your own mashup from scratch so you can do everything the way you'd like.
wild frigate
Huh? The flute is really sudden, though. Don't you hear that?
Like it sounds like somebody fell on a cymbal.
And finally the flute goes to its high solo and then the cymbal comes in with the old flute loop and they clash. Don't you hear that?
So you don't see any issues with any of the timestamps I noted?
wild frigate
@weak jolt If you were dancing to this track, you'd not notice those issues? I'm a singer and basic dancer, so I understand how music is based predominantly on feel. So if you're listening to this idly in the background, it's going to feel off in places. Do you not feel that? I know for sure it's not mere preference. It feels off in places. It doesn't stay in its flow. I just don't know how to fix it entirely. I have dyspraxia, so these things I'm still teaching myself.
weak jolt
I think you're confusing which things I'm referring to as preference and which ones I agree are issues. The spots where it doesn't loop cleanly are obviously mistakes but I disagree with you about an instrument coming in suddenly instead of gradually being inherently a problem. False drops like the one in the beginning of that track aren't automatically mistakes either. It's there to throw you off and create a sense of anticipation. Sometimes "perfect" is a downgrade.
Even that first criticism doesn't always apply. Plenty of artists like Flume and Niagara build their entire sound around not looping things perfectly so elements come out of time with each other in interesting ways.
I can only mostly be sure it wasn't on purpose based on my personal tastes.
wild frigate
I think you're confusing which things I'm referring to as preference and which o...
I agree but you didn't really elaborate on which was what, so it confused me.
As for a false drop, I'd understand that if the genre wasn't floaty 90s House. This song is predominantly a very lacey and flowing song, meant to emphasise the liberation and flow of metamorphosis just in a grand crecendo kind of way. I've been PM'ing the person who remixed these remixes into basically a mashup, by the way, and they did confirm they were mistakes but didn't know how to fix them and was pleased with the overall product.
I agree that's stylistic but here choppy loops don't fit the style of this genre nor of how this person wanted to only keep the softer drums. They removed the muddier drums and the air raid siren, etc, from the original track.
Hope this clarifies.
wild frigate
@weak jolt Did you get my noti?