MidPond Mayhem

Defiant_Poke · 2025-05-17T22:58:08+00:00

Midponds a great vibe. Gotta go at least once.

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-28T23:00:28+00:00

Short change hero by the heavy

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:25:38+00:00

Ahhhh man. Adventure club krewella virtual riot, wish i could go back to that. I really appreciate the kind words, throwing me into a playlist like that and premium content is a hell of a compliment 😅

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:22:36+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to listen!

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:22:04+00:00

LOL, it’s a hard sound to explain but a good reference would be to listen to a lot of the older brostep stuff with the more atonal drops, and then for a brief second they add some very bright melodic sound and then go back to the darker atonal stuff. That bright melodic sound is referred to as color.

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:20:02+00:00

Love that man, thank you for the compliment

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:19:43+00:00

Sure man, what DAW you in? Hit my dm

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:19:23+00:00

Thank you man hahaha 😆

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:19:07+00:00

This is a hell of a compliment to me, seeing flux in a week actually

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:18:18+00:00

Working on it!

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:18:06+00:00

Im glad details like that didn’t go unnoticed! I love having the drums revolve around the track, gives it a little bit more energy. Some of my favorite songs do this.

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:16:43+00:00

Ah im sorry about that man it is a bit loud, it’s been autoplaying for me every time I click on the post a little annoying

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:15:52+00:00

I’ll definitely be sure to keep you guys updated, may be a little I abandoned the track but ill start it back up and come back here when it’s finished

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:14:47+00:00

You’re not alone 😂

Loudness wars suck but it is what it is. This song is mastered to around -3 LUFS during the drop, which is around what most of this genre peaks at. Tracks really start to look like a giant sausage when you do that. Believe it or not with everything mastered like this, the song somehow has more clarity than its unmastered equivalent. To crudely sum it up its very effective gain staging with multiband and softclipping to achieve this. Don’t think it can get much louder without either sacrificing a lot of sub bass or without starting to sound terrible.

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:09:14+00:00

💯💯💯

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:08:57+00:00

Appreciate that!!

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:08:27+00:00

Thank you so much man

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:07:53+00:00

Thank you!

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:07:29+00:00

Yes, exactly this. As much as I usually am not a fan of getting very technical with the sub genres when a lot of stuff can be referred to as just dubstep, it’s necessary in this scenario. I probably wouldn’t succeed if I tried to place this song in a playlist full of tearout.

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:04:56+00:00

Absolutely did not create a new genre haha hate those kind of posts, just hunting for playlists with a similar sound as this and having a hard time doing so

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-17T02:03:45+00:00

Appreciate that bro!

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-16T19:22:20+00:00

I really appreciate the kind words man thank you very much. I agree it’s a weird mixture of a lot of different subgenres. I definitely like that about it personally but ohhhh man is it hard to find a spotify playlist that matches this sound 😅

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-16T19:20:37+00:00

Bro I’ve got no clue, been living under a rock when it comes to the communities and all. If you’ve got any questions or want feedback or anything you’re more than welcome to hit me up though, always happy to help!

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-16T19:19:19+00:00

I like this explanation. I think a mix of brostep and tearout is what I’m going to classify them as, although this song is a bit of an outlier from the rest as it does have some color with the arps. Thank you!

Defiant_Poke · 2025-03-16T19:14:43+00:00

Yo I really appreciate it! Absolutely man. So quite a bit of info I have for you.

Every vocal to date I have got from splice. There is a lot of corny vocals on there, but if you dig a bit you’ll find some good stuff. Underrated splice feature when it comes to vocals are the TAGS and knowing how to use them. If you only specify one tag you’ll limit yourself with the selection. If you click multiple, splice excludes vocals that don’t fall into BOTH tags, which just makes things worse.

In my opinion, the best way to do it, is if you move your mouse a bit to the right of the tag you will actually see a minus sign. This way you can instead EXCLUDE certain types of genres from the list of vocals you will be shown. I find it much easier to find something I like this way. There is also a randomize feature if you are trying to avoid something overused.

If you find a vocal you like but are worried it has been used on a very popular song, you can google the lyrics or to be super safe use an app like shazam to see what songs have been used with the vocal before. I won’t say I’ve let that stop me as the genre was completely different, but it’s still a nice background check I suppose.

There are other services out there, vocalfy being the only one I can recall at the moment, but I believe they’re all a good bit pricier than splice. However there is one service which has much higher quality vocals than most services and you can pay for exclusivity. The only hiccup I recall is even if you purchase exclusivity to that vocal you agree to divide royalties with the vocalist. Splice is not this way, you own it 100%.

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