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  Would love your thoughts on this, “Black Heart”

  Posted by Stuart Roholt on at 3:18 pm

  This is a tension cue, that kinda got bigger as I worked on it! It’s one track of an album that I’m working on of tension / suspense cues. Would appreciate any mix notes that you have (or any others that you might want to share).

  Thanks

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  Dana Nielsen replied 1 year, 9 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies

  • cue
  • instrumental
  • mix-feedback
  • sidechain
  • sync
  • synth
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  Jeremy Roye

  Member

  at 6:59 pm

  Yeah! love hearing this new cut, Stu!

  I enjoyed all the stank you put on the variety of sounds. :0

  Curious if the kick could slap a smidge more though really like the thudiness of it.

  :49 – this transition felt a bit off to me, like maybe not everything hit right on the 1 beat. Might nudge something in there.

  Snare felt a little hot (maybe the 3k-10k range) in my Sony 7508’s headies.

  Otherwise, mix levels are sounding nice to me!

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    Stuart Roholt

    Member

    at 1:06 pm

    Thanks J – As usual, on point 🙂 I’ll tweak that transition, try some side chaining for the kick, and sprinkle some pixie dust eq on the snare.

    Appreciate it!

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  David Maroul

  Member

  at 12:52 am

  Hi Stuart, nothing specific to mention except what Jeremy mentioned about the snare coming in a little hot. Loved the overall mix. I think the tension / suspense cue aspect is conveyed nicely.

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    Stuart Roholt

    Member

    at 7:46 am

    Thanks for listening David! I appreciate the feedback 😊

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  Dana Nielsen

  Administrator

  at 5:24 pm

  Stuart! This is super cool, man – love it! Tension for sure ⚡️. FWIW, dropping a couple thoughts here on an otherwise fun, exciting mix and production!

  • The synth lead at 0:52 feels real loud to me against the track. Try turning it down? orrr … try leaving it loud but with heavy side-chain compression keyed by the kick and snare, which would give the synth some aggro pumping action AND it would let the kick and snare cut through the synth better so those drums stay powerful and upfront (right now that synth is kinda drowning out the kick/snare).
  • I love how huge the snare is! That said, I want the kick to be JUST as huge as the snare. Currently the kick feels a bit low-volume. Crank that thing up so it punches me in the GUT!

  That’s all I got, man – killer job!! And thanks for sharing with us all!

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    Stuart Roholt

    Member

    at 3:15 pm

    Love these notes! Thanks so much Dana. Already on it. Opting for AGRO😎

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      Dana Nielsen

      Administrator

      at 4:04 pm

      Woo! Can’t wait to hear it, man!

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