At Audiotuts+ we irregularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how the artist can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song.
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This track has been submitted for your friendly, constructive criticism. They have put their track (and their heart and soul) in your hands to learn and get useful feedback.
- Do you enjoy the song or track itself? Does it have potential?
- Can the arrangement be improved?
- How did you find the mix? What would you do differently?
- What do you enjoy about the rhythm track? What can be done to improve it?
- Is the choice of instruments relevant and effective for the style/song?
- Are the lyrics (if any) effective? Does the style, arrangement and genre of the song suit them?
- Can you suggest any specific techniques that might improve the track?
- Do you have any other constructive feedback?
How Much I’ve Loved You by The Pariah
Author’s website: myspace.com/thedjpariah
Description of the track:
How Much I’ve Loved You is one of the newer songs that I have finished. I wanted to make a track using some of the audio from Jim Jones’ last sermon and this is what I came up with.
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The mix is fine for the most part. I didn’t think so much about technicalities because I was focused on what you were doing in a more general, artistic, sense. Which is a plus. That also must mean that nothing really stood out in terms of technical production – nothing that original.
The cold, electronic, beat when mixed with this sound clip, however, created an oppressively bleak emotional experience.
made for an interesting experience. I think this track is something I need to re-listen to after some time has passed.
Im glad that the track focused you more on the artistic sense of it. Thats really what I was going for with this one. I wanted art, I wanted to enhance the nature of the jim jones samples. It is a depressing story and I wanted to make it cold and bleak. I appreciate the comment and if you listen and have more feedback let me know!
I appreciate any feedback on this so please let me know the good and the bad!
there is something that draws me into this song, the thumps and wild clicks are probably the key to that… the haunting melody behind all this is a plus for me, the dreariness of it is what i appreciate.
it would be a track that would be hard to play out, while my taste is much darker than most, i see this as a song that would clear the floor in an instant in alot of places.. I will play it out and watch for the reactions tho..
I am no music expert in the slightest, but the production is a little lackluster, nothing stood out and wowed me in this song.. (albeit better than my production skills)
the Jim Jones samples add a layer of sadness that i can appreciate and remind you of how evil and sadistic this man was. The samples could be cleaner and more audible.. they are hard to understand in certain parts of the song, they are overridden by the music.
All in all I see this as just a transition tune. If art was what you were going for with this, i’d say you did a bang up job.