Made a remix of a song from the TMNT soundtrack

Shaoling

Sweden344 Posts

December 03 2011 18:23 GMT

http://soundcloud.com/f-c-4/feeling-contemptuous-feat-ya

The song is spin that wheel which is featured on the teenage mutant ninja turtles live action film number 1. It was originally made by hi tek 3 and ya kid k is rapping. i think she was like 14 at the time and is rapping pretty gangster. I used a phase invertion to get the vocals out of a mix of the song that was pretty accapella and then made my own music to it. so 100% of the background music is my making. enjoy!

http://soundcloud.com/f-c-4/feeling-contemptuous-feat-ya

VTArlock

United States1763 Posts

December 03 2011 19:46 GMT

I apologize for my bluntness but it was not fun to listen to. The effort you put into it was good but it's definitely not something that I would listen to.

mmp

United States2130 Posts

December 03 2011 22:28 GMT

I'm not going to comment on composition. I think it's good for its length.

My main issue is the equalization and mixing levels. In a nutshell, past 1:10 there's a lot of low frequency presence without any dynamics from the voice synths that's muddling out the high-frequency elements (lyrics, beats, melody).

I downloaded the wav just to make sure, and I think it's SoundCloud partly to blame, partly your mixing across tracks. The downgraded web-streaming quality makes a difference, you lose a lot of your high end, and that accentuates the problem.

You've also mastered it kinda flat, so your beats, lyrics, and melody are hard to hear past 1:10 and the oohs/aahs come in really strong at 1:10.

Only you can adjust your tracks, but I did try my hand at the master eq.

I amplified -2.0dB to get a little bit of working space, then went for roughly:
80Hz: -0.9dB
500Hz: -5.8dB
1.6KHz: +3.0dB (this helps the arpeggios that start around 1:33)
10kHz: -2.0dB

http://soundcloud.com/dj-mmp/fc-feat-ya-kid-k-spin-that (private to you only). I recommend downloading it, the transcoding is harsh.

I think it helps the clarity after 1:30, but you could get even cleaner effect by just lowering the ooh/aah track.

I do like it though. Sounds nice.