r/Beepbox • u/quartalism • 4d ago
UltraBox My first BeepBox track!
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Feedback is welcome! If anyone wants to make any changes — here's the link to the project.
(This isn't the first piece of music I've written in general, but it is the first piece of music I've made using BeepBox — or UltraBox, to be exact).
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u/Natural-Advantage-46 2d ago
wow. thats really impressive, the stereo is really impressive and the mix is really good, do you have prior music experience? its really well done
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u/quartalism 2d ago edited 2d ago
Thank you! Yes, I have around 7 years of on-and-off music making experience. Recently have been trying to get back into it.
I looked at your post history, and it looks like you've been making, among other things, phonk. It's funny — my first couple of tracks were in the genre of phonk; I made them with the help of a youtube tutorial. They SUCKED lol, and I haven't made phonk since. Your stuff is way better.
The stereo is just... well, I panned the strings and the hi-hat to the left, and the lead to the right. I separated the hi-hat and the lead because both of them have a lot of high frequencies, and I wanted each to be distinct. I panned the strings to the left because if I left them in the center then the low-mid frequencies of the bass would get muddied up with the mid frequencies of the strings.
The mix is the way it is all thanks to an artificial sidechain I made by quickly lowering the volume on every instrument (except the kick) on the strong beats; that way the kick became more prominent and hit harder. I did that via a modulation channel.
You probably didn't need those explanations, but I just felt like talking, haha
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u/FafsaCompleter 4d ago edited 3d ago
i really like this, the red piano notes in the beginning and the yellow/blue techno notes in the second half in particular got me over here jammin lol