Road Trippin'

Road Trippin’

This is something I came up with after a 10 hour road trip. I tried to focus on the aggressive cornering and relaxing straightaways of the trip. It’s a free download if anyone wants to get jiggy with it :laughing:.

Here’s the link to the free download. The soundcloud link won’t work for some reason…
http://www.aotoori.com/free-music

Great concept for a tune. Loved the bassline and the groove in the first minute.

If I can offer any constructive criticism, it’s that depth-wise, the stereo field felt imbalanced, in large part because of the wood block/rim and it’s big reverb coming out of one speaker but nothing balancing it on the other side. The arrangement felt a bit awkward too because there were too many elements seemingly fighting to be the primary instrument. (2 minute mark and 2:40 or so from what I remember) The flute/recorder sound and some string/pad type things. Think you could have put one of those elements further back in the mix and it would help.

Nice job though. I’m guessing you’re in a high-end European car if that’s your idea of aggressive cornering? :wink:

Dark road trip… very Depeche Mode, hope you came out of it unscathed. Like the sound design. Would agree with INDY that you should mix it a bit more and relegate one or two of the channels, but it’s a nice sound (particularly the little loop that becomes obvious around 3 mins).

I’d also recommend making it a bit longer and DJ friendly with a longer outro but that’s me being selfish! :slight_smile:

Thanks for the feedback!! I’ll play around with the track a bit more and make some of the suggested changes.

@ImNotDeadYet I wish it was a high end European car. It was a Four runner on some brand new all terrain wheels. The grip was amazing :smiley: .