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[Firestarters: Piano (Aydin's Chilled Version)]

I think this is better than ABFH remix, as the melodies are mixed very nicely - this almost reminds me of a track by Cursed Snake, with the drums and all. Not much to recommend here, except for the fact that the whole track is a little quiet. You already said this in the descriptio. Also, the track ends kind of abruptly, like a part of it got removed during uploading or something. Is this a loop?Just make it louder, perhaps add a few more instruments than a piano and sax, etc. Overall, a very good track. Glad to see you trying new things other than dubstep.

Aydin-Jewelz123 responds:

Awesome feedback dude! Yeah, this one shaped out quite well. Need to figure out the volume stuff soon. Trying to learn the ropes with Maximus, but every time I up the bands, or compress it, it just sounds harsh. Trying to get a much cleaner sound than I used to but it's going to take some practise. This is the first track I made on my new speakers, with a better kitted out room vs the Logitech 30 quid gaming ones I used back in the day and things feel much clearer.

Unfortunately, I've got like 15 tracks or so sat here on my hard drive waiting for upload but now I'm stuck as to whether to upload, or which to upload, as they all don't sound quite as clean as I'd hoped when making them on my previous setup which had some M-Audios. Never took gear that seriously until really recent, so hopefully it'll pay off dividends.

The firestarters track was made over 2 days, spent 2 hours on one evening then a few hours the following afternoon tidying it up, so definitely off to a good start there. It's just a case of getting the volume right, and also figuring out how to clean my tracks without removing all the ambience, which is the trouble I'm having atm with this Zelda remix I'm trying to fix up and a that ABFH remix.

Thanks for checking out both tracks dude and the constructive feedback. I will have another look at the tail on this track and fit something a bit more of an outro rather than just cut it and look at boosting the volumes.

Now my question is what to do with the YouTube channel... definitely want to upload things on there, as I have some nice videos that match the content, with bits from Unreal Engine that I've picked up over the years, but the trouble with the audience there is I'm not sure if they are better served with 1 genre or multiple, or whether to present it as just a Trap Nation esque, upload style, or to get more personal and show behind the scenes, try and engage people etc.

Thinking the latter tbh, more fun but it's a case of figuring out a style and being consistent. Anyway dude, thanks for the review again, much appreciated!

Please send me any tracks you want reviewed. I go on review rampages early in the day to get ideas, give feedback and try to engage with people more than I used to so would be great :)

Peace

[A Breeze From Home (Aydin's Remix)]

Future bass is one of the hardest genres of music to produce. I would know because I actually tried to create it once. I have never uploaded it because of reasons but I suggest adding a few more supersaws layered in with the bass part of the future bass, just to give it the right feeling of a drop, rather than a random experiment in a song that doesn’t match the rest of it. The supersaws would fix this. I get it’s a remix but this is just my suggestion. I like the way you chopped up the vocals - it worked quite well in the song. Speaking of which, the whole thing is kind of empty as a whole and I can’t figure out why.
Not sure how I feel about the name change. For years you have been jewelz but you kept that and added aydin and added some i’s for separation? Seems confusing. Maybe remove the i’s and the jewelz123 and put “AKA Jewelz123” in the description? That could work nicely. Glad to see you’ve returned! Hope to see you improve!

Aydin-Jewelz123 responds:

Thanks for the suggestions dude. Yeah I had it quite cluttered right up till the mixing then chopped it down and it did feel a bit emptier as you said dude. I chopped out a lot of percussion and random sounds which werent tidy but filled the space. Ended up with a cleaner mix but lost the energy and didnt really figure out a way to get it back / fill it.

Will try out more layers next time round.

Really a new genre to get grips with and I often find myself veering off into random bits rather than sticking to the genre as I did with Dubstep.

As for the name, I bugged it up! I really wanted Aydin (Jewelz123), and the font on my screen made i look like a vertical line so I thought to use them to separate the two but botched it majorly. Need to wait a month and then I can change it back or tweak it like you said, with AKA.

AydinDubstep was the name I ran with on YouTube so dropped the Dubstep bit and now it's just aydin. But here Jewelz123 was my jam. Was a throwaway name at the time but I never changed it.

Sorry dudes!

Thanks for the lengthy review dude and you should upload your future bass dude. Nothing to lose and you could get feedback etc.

Would happily check it out although I'm not quite there in terms of sound design for the genre either..

[Crystal Falls (ft. 1f1n1ty)]

a song named crystal falls is the last name I would expect to have a hip hop song beat thing named. that made sense. also I quit making music because im not improving at all. who even uses fl mobile anyway

Hedrix responds:

It takes time to improve. And I'm pretty sure 1f1n1ty used FL to make this part.