Zeds Dead & NGHTMRE – Frontlines (Nysor Remix)

Zeds Dead & NGHTMRE – Frontlines (Nysor Remix)

Would appreciate your VOTES on this one FAM

https://wavo.me/zedsdead/road-to-reaction-zeds-dead-remix-contest/zeds_dead_nghtmre_frontlines_nysor_remix__18512996040510000?u=528f55a90eef268530003625&s=MdAQjwJL3Si2osZFkgesWPJbdao&v=1

The screech/distorted synth in the drop kinda messes with the flow of the other elements, since its too dry, offbeat and especially too stereo spread in the mix. Other than that, pretty neat job

First off, imma say that this is a pretty sweet remix. You've got a sick bass sound and some good flow on the drums. With that said, I think there's still a lot of stuff  you can improve.

A remix should take a track to a new place if you ask me. However, even though you've got a different drum pattern / tempo, all the feeling of the song is still coming from the vocal (which is completely unchanged?). Maybe pitch the vocal around or pass it through a vocoder. In any case just throwing the vocal stem onto some new instrumentation doesn't seem very inspired.

You also have a sweet bassline, but it doesn't seem to mesh with the vocal very well. I think you could either use them as contrasting elements and do a call and response thing (emphasizing their difference). Or try to add some tones to the base in the same register as the vocals and have them playing together (emphasizing your edits in the vocals). However either way you bass needs to be a LOT louder, I can barely hear it over vocal. This should be your main feature! Compress the shit out of it so it tears through everything else.

Either way, nice job. You got a vote from me, but, if you do end up making an extended version / VIP maybe take some my suggestions into account 

PS: just listened to the song one more time and I feel like your drums sound a bit thin. I think you could bring em out a bit more with some tactful mastering. It is DRUM & bass after all...

On 14.11.2016 г. at 11:21 PM, wvwvwv said:

PS: just listened to the song one more time and I feel like your drums sound a bit thin. I think you could bring em out a bit more with some tactful mastering. It is DRUM & bass after all...

*mixing & sample choices
thats where 95% of the overall quality is at

On 14.11.2016 г. at 11:21 PM, wvwvwv said:

You also have a sweet bassline, but it doesn't seem to mesh with the vocal very well. I think you could either use them as contrasting elements and do a call and response thing (emphasizing their difference). Or try to add some tones to the base in the same register as the vocals and have them playing together (emphasizing your edits in the vocals). However either way you bass needs to be a LOT louder, I can barely hear it over vocal. This should be your main feature! Compress the shit out of it so it tears through everything else.

Overcompressing more often than not leads to your sounds going thin as fuck, cause of 0 fuckin room for core dymanics, compared to controlled compression & small saturation boosts

Well, dope!! really appreciate the detailed feedback from both of you, it's really going to giving me some more drive in creating a better mix down over-all and i will really be paying attention to the stereo imaging. i can definitely see where it can be improved. i have uploaded a new version of the track to the link provided. after a couple of days of resting my ears and listening to the old mix i made a couple of improvements. or what i would hope to be improvements.

You guys rock!!

Just now, DJ_ID said:

Well, dope!! really appreciate the detailed feedback from both of you, it's really going to giving me some more drive in creating a better mix down over-all and i will really be paying attention to the stereo imaging. i can definitely see where it can be improved. i have uploaded a new version of the track to the link provided. after a couple of days of resting my ears and listening to the old mix i made a couple of improvements. or what i would hope to be improvements.

 

You guys rock!!

On 11/15/2016 at 2:37 PM, Chobz said:

*mixing & sample choices
thats where 95% of the overall quality is at

Overcompressing more often than not leads to your sounds going thin as fuck, cause of 0 fuckin room for core dymanics, compared to controlled compression & small saturation boosts

from a drum'n'bass fans perspective (who tried producing some dnb on 2-3 remixes) and a producer side i know that clean drums and an overall fat sound is incredible hard to accomplish.

your drums do lack a bit in power and most synths are sounding a little dry, but the arrangement and ideas you put in are sick, so keep it up!