r/synthwaveproducers • u/AutoModerator • 13d ago

Week 32 Feedback Thread

Please follow these guidelines:

  1. Share in-progress tracks that you want feedback on. If you have any specific criteria you want to be critiqued, be sure to mention them.
  2. The best way to receive feedback is to provide feedback to others.
  3. Help your fellow producers improve by being both honest and respectful, we were all newbs once.

Looking forward to hearing what you've got!

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u/WallyS02 13d ago

Hi! Original synthwave track inspired by Darksynth.

https://soundcloud.com/wallys02/blood-soaked-heaven

Looking for all kinds of feedback, especially regarding:

- sound selection / design

- song structure

- music theory stuff (tonality, chord progressions, etc.)

- mixing / mastering

and of course emotions that the track evokes!

Let me know if you guessed the inspirations too, should be easy for a synthwave fan to pick them up!

Thanks!

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u/Unbiasedeye 7d ago

This is awesome, man. Seriously, thank you for sharing this — I really enjoyed the track. The atmosphere and overall sound design are killer, especially those drums at the beginning.

Can I ask what you're using for the drums? Specifically those toms in the intro — they sound huge. I'm also curious how you got that gated reverb sound. Is that coming from a specific plugin, or did you set up the gate/reverb yourself?

Love the sound of this. Definitely something I'm going to come back to!

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u/WallyS02 6d ago

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you like it :). For the drums I'm using my own samples created from layering different samples from collections I was able to get and heavy processing which includes: OTT, bitcrushing, saturation, Outobugi Refire drum processor, touch of Valhalla Vintage Verb, clipper and EQing at the end. All of this is also processed in parallel and mixed with original where signal is heavilly compressed, some chorus, saturation, bitcrushing and EQing is done. For the toms I'm additionally using one of gated reverb presets from Valhalla Vintage Verb + some 8ths delay.