oh i didn't see this until just now!
anyway, it's nice to see someone else here making electronic stuff.
what are you using to make these? and what is your focus?
are you trying to make things sound good (as in audio engineering) or are you trying to really compose
my view is that with electronic music you have to do both.
i think the emphasis is more on the engineering part though, you can make cool sounds which have to be composed, but can sound cool in any random order.
however, you can not take a bland sound and make a song (=track, mostly there's no singing involved) with it, because the whole track gwill still sound bland.
electronic music is mainly a lot of tricks, and less composing, but that's a lot of the fun for me.
i'm guessing you're using fl studio though, because i think i'm recognizing the standard kick in your first track
track 1:
i like how you put a 4x4 beat and dubstep together, i used to do that too.
anyway, the song itself is pretty okay i guess.
it's not really special, and that's primarily based on what i said before; the sounds you used is pretty bland. there's just one sound that you used with a bunch of filters.
that one sound you used doesn't cover a lot of the spectrum (i assume you know a little about that). it's fairly mid-ranged, so the highs and lows aren't really touched.
if i were to improve on what you have I'd add a subtle bass and some high percussion, and maybe some high lead touches.
a way to check and enhance frequencies is adding equalizers to seperate tracks or instruments, and do all of it manually, or enhance the generated sound directly in the synth (which takes more effort, often)
this is a really good example of covering a lot of the spectrum (from 1.16 on, you can see i placed 2 comments there anyway), the sounds are all over the place, but as a whole it sounds good.
[flash=800,80]https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F45086568[/flash]
it's from this dude:
http://soundcloud.com/damienromei
the melody could use some work too, but it's pretty entertaining as is. i like the sweet dreams references.
what puts me off though is the sudden silences at the drops.
if you listen to a lot of music which you used as reference, you'll notice there aren't any complete silences.
most of the time there's some subtle swooshes going on, esp. in key moments like that. or there is a short silence, but there's a fuckton of echo, and the real 'silence' is only a split second.
yours doesn't sound natural, it's like the track is suddenly being paused. there's a slight delay from the lead, but that's it.
track 2:
this is better already - more layered sounds but not overdoing it.
i notice you have a short sample at the start, the higher pitched extra melody with a lot of delay
i'm going to assume that that isn't deliberate. I used to have that too, random bits of sound even though i put the automation clip all the way down.
the problem here is that the volume or filter (whichever you used) starts the song at a default value.
you can change that by right-clicking the knob or slider all the way down (or wherever you want it to start), and select 'init song with this position) (again, i assume you use fl studio)
by the way, if you're going to make dubstep, try to find some good samples. the kicks are usually (really) short, sharp and deep, with a short snare added for the high end.
and after that there's a snare with a lot of reverb.
i like the sudden change at 2:35
the percussion gets a bit overpowered though by the main lead/bass, so you could work on that.
track 3:
hehe, i see that you found the glitch plugin?
pretty nice, the sounds are still a bit subdued though, they could be a bit more explosive and expressive.
personally i've been working a lot with a couple of VST's, mainly sylenth and massive, which allow you to do a lot of sound synthesis, and you can find a bunch of cool presets for those.
last thing i made wasn't electronic though:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5w3jhcmq7wz9y ... arp%5D.mp3
anyway, it's nice to see you doing this, i hope you can keep it up.
i'll be happy to provide feedback occasionally, so i can teach you a thing or two.
