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Check it out, my first attempt at this genre.. Tell me what you think! Toasted Sandwiches are awesome!

https://soundcloud.com/xander-lewis/toasted-sandwich

Track is TIGHT like a Panini

I loves my Cuban Sammiches.

Thanks MarksBasementRecords, means a lot! What do you like about the track in particular? What's good, what to improve on?

Well I'm pretty new to complextro music but the variation of sounds in the "Hook" is nice- Diggin' the synth chords too.

I'd say the piano is maybe something to improve on- it adds an asian flavour which is good- maybe add some more variation to it when it returns to switch the track up more

Thanks very much and yeah I definitely agree, the second part was kind of a rush job to fill in the rest of the song so I just copied the same piano part again :/

Legendary! Where did you learn to master your tracks or do you send them off?

Mine seem to sound how I want in Ableton, then when I export it's either too quiet or the tracks don't seem to blend as well. Don't think I am over compressing but I don't know anything about mastering really.

PS. listening to your other stuff now, quality!

Thanks very much Stevee! Generally I just try to get a clean mix first, and then my mastering doesn't really have to do much, just some light compression, some multiband harmonic excitement (tube distortion) and stereo imaging.. I didn't really ever learn how to master tracks, I just kind of make sure I don't have any overlapping frequencies and that my tracks are nice and clean. I just checked out your mix on soundcloud (thx for the follow btw) and it's pretty awesome! Maybe you're not exporting it out of live in a high enough sample rate or something.. Or have you converted the file after exporting? Either way, still sounds great! Keep it up

Well done! The synths sound fantastic. I hope to someday have something I'm proud enough of to post on the internets.

Thanks

Mad as a box of frogs.....excellent. Commented.

Thanks and it's really nice to see comments on soundcloud so thanks very much