Thoughts on my DnB/ Jungle Type Beats?

[777TONES]

beat tape here
Inspired by stuff I heard when I was a kid, PinkPantheress, and more. Sort of chill and jumpy.

 

[777TONES]

Nvm can someone help me delete this LMAO (changed my mind I can keep this up lol)

 

[2GooD Productions]

I wanted to listen as well, I make dnb too

Are you in the UK?

 

[777TONES]

I wanted to listen as well, I make dnb too

Are you in the UK?

I just put the link back up through google drive instead of posting on youtube, I appreciate you wanting to listen! And I am sadly not in the UK I live in Illinois

Link here !

 

[2GooD Productions]

On 1620... Do you use side chained compression? If you sidechained the kick to that bass you can get some rhythmic pumping going on, it will break up the constant bassline and make it more rhythmically pleasing.
That bass synth I think you could cut off some of the high end, the sound gets a bit annoying after a bit, I think the drums could really use a bit of variation too.
I dont think the sound selection really suits dnb IMO.

1565. Drums are much more Jungle style here, but the mixing is off on the drums and the drums are still a bit repetitive. The bass and those synths are drowning out the drums a bit, the drums and bass should be right up front and center and the synths should be much further back in the mix. Lots of cymbal in the drums, makes its sound a little washed out.

1543. That electric piano is far too loud, its drowning out everything else. Drums need to be louder. I think just taking that electric piano down will solve a lot of the issues with the balance of this. Love the shaker that comes in momentarily, personally Id use that electric piano for the intro, then take it out, it gets a bit annoying after a while.

1542. Now this sounds much more authentic jungle, sounds like you sampled an old jungle track. Once again that pad synth is a bit too loud in the mix, its drowning out everything else and affecting the whole balance of the mix. Snare is at the right place on this one, kick could probably be much more punchy.


1541. The chops that you added are a bit loud and they jump out too much.

What is your monitoring setup?

I think you should work on your drum programming game, adding fills and variations that keep it interesting as the beat goes on instead of just having a drum loop that repeats all the way through the tracks. Also I think you should work on the mix balance of the tracks, kick front and center, snare front and center, bassline sitting under the kick and then everything else under that, except vocals, they will be front and center with maybe some panned delays, some reverb and other fx on them.

Heres my most popular DnB track, let me know what you think?



I have fixed the bass on this so its not so overbearing but I havent uploaded that version to soundcloud.

 

[777TONES]

On 1620... Do you use side chained compression? If you sidechained the kick to that bass you can get some rhythmic pumping going on, it will break up the constant bassline and make it more rhythmically pleasing.
That bass synth I think you could cut off some of the high end, the sound gets a bit annoying after a bit, I think the drums could really use a bit of variation too.
I dont think the sound selection really suits dnb IMO.

1565. Drums are much more Jungle style here, but the mixing is off on the drums and the drums are still a bit repetitive. The bass and those synths are drowning out the drums a bit, the drums and bass should be right up front and center and the synths should be much further back in the mix. Lots of cymbal in the drums, makes its sound a little washed out.

1543. That electric piano is far too loud, its drowning out everything else. Drums need to be louder. I think just taking that electric piano down will solve a lot of the issues with the balance of this. Love the shaker that comes in momentarily, personally Id use that electric piano for the intro, then take it out, it gets a bit annoying after a while.

1542. Now this sounds much more authentic jungle, sounds like you sampled an old jungle track. Once again that pad synth is a bit too loud in the mix, its drowning out everything else and affecting the whole balance of the mix. Snare is at the right place on this one, kick could probably be much more punchy.


1541. The chops that you added are a bit loud and they jump out too much.

What is your monitoring setup?

I think you should work on your drum programming game, adding fills and variations that keep it interesting as the beat goes on instead of just having a drum loop that repeats all the way through the tracks. Also I think you should work on the mix balance of the tracks, kick front and center, snare front and center, bassline sitting under the kick and then everything else under that, except vocals, they will be front and center with maybe some panned delays, some reverb and other fx on them.

Heres my most popular DnB track, let me know what you think?



I have fixed the bass on this so its not so overbearing but I havent uploaded that version to soundcloud.

Genuinely appreciate the in depth feedback, I definitely could feel my DNB game lacking so I’m glad I took it off YouTube for now, definitely going to go in-depth and go harder with my approach next time. But it’s been a minute since I’ve finally heard some good in depth feedback.

I checked out your track, (I don’t mean to be a dick at all! Just feedback) I think the drums honestly don’t go together, as in you may need better sound selection which would make a huge difference, but halfway through the song you do get a good dreamyness feeling thanks to the melody and chords.

I seriously appreciate the feedback for real man!!!

 

[2GooD Productions]

Genuinely appreciate the in depth feedback, I definitely could feel my DNB game lacking so I’m glad I took it off YouTube for now, definitely going to go in-depth and go harder with my approach next time. But it’s been a minute since I’ve finally heard some good in depth feedback.

I checked out your track, (I don’t mean to be a dick at all! Just feedback) I think the drums honestly don’t go together, as in you may need better sound selection which would make a huge difference, but halfway through the song you do get a good dreamyness feeling thanks to the melody and chords.

I seriously appreciate the feedback for real man!!!

Drum and bass is a very technical genre, lots of mixing going on behind the scenes.
Im going to go back to my Dua Lipa remix and make the drums a bit more interesting, as its basically a drum loop I made that plays out throughout the whole track. I want to make the fills a lot more interesting. Personally I feel the same about the drums on it as you do, I used my hip hop drums on a DnB track.

But being as its just a remix that I cant sell then I have sort of left it on the back burner, but I will defo come back to it.

Started making Amapiano at the studio yesterday and made a banger, so I can add Amapiano to my list of genres. Hip Hop, RnB, House, Garage, Drum n Bass, Reggae and Bashment. I like to do all sorts of genres, keeps things interesting for an old man like me.