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Is This Synthwave Cue Ready for Sync? · 52 Cues - A Production Music and Sync Podcast

• 0:31
  Dave Kropf: What is happening everybody?
• 0:33
  Dave Kropf: This is Dave Kropf, and welcome back to another episode of Ready for Sink, where we feature a queue written by a member of the 52 queues community and we ask is my queue ready for Sink placement?
• 0:46
  Dave Kropf: And today we are checking out a queue called Weekend Warrior, which is a synth wave queue written by Jacob Forslund.
• 0:53
  Dave Kropf: So we are going to take a listen to this and then we will talk about it on the other side Music playing, music playing, music playing, music playing.
• 3:10
  Dave Kropf: That was Weekend Warrior from Jacob Forslund.
• 3:13
  Dave Kropf: Jacob, thank you so much for sending this along.
• 3:15
  Dave Kropf: He sent this during our week 47 weekly feedback thread.
• 3:20
  Dave Kropf: We put weekly feedback threads together every single week and I choose one of these to talk about here on the YouTube channel and on the podcast.
• 3:28
  Dave Kropf: But I enjoyed this.
• 3:29
  Dave Kropf: I like this a lot.
• 3:30
  Dave Kropf: I love me some synth wave and I think you absolutely nailed the vibe of this.
• 3:35
  Dave Kropf: We've got kind of this.
• 3:36
  Dave Kropf: Take on me drums and the drums are really, really good, and so all of the pieces are there.
• 3:43
  Dave Kropf: I think the bass line or the bass patch, I don't know.
• 3:51
  Dave Kropf: I don't know if it needs a little bit more movement, and I don't necessarily mean rhythmic movement, I don't know if it needs to, kind of just needs to kind of pump in and out maybe some light side chaining or something Music playing.
• 4:13
  Dave Kropf: One of the things to keep in mind anytime and this is for anybody looking to write synth wave music and one of the things that makes it sound super authentic is remembering when these were originally written.
• 4:26
  Dave Kropf: They weren't done in a DAW, they weren't done where somebody could just like set up a loop and go.
• 4:29
  Dave Kropf: These were often performed in real time on synthesizers, and so the performer was always moving a parameter, always affecting a filter or a modulation, and so it's very unlikely that it would just get kind of set and set and forget, forgotten, set and forgotten.
• 4:50
  Dave Kropf: There would have been some kind of tinkering, some kind of synthing going on as the sound progressed, and I feel like the bass part boom, boom, boom it's just kind of sitting there.
• 5:05
  Dave Kropf: I think we're doing great as far as our mix so far.
• 5:11
  Dave Kropf: Of course, here we've got a little bit of a knockout.
• 5:15
  Dave Kropf: That's because I pulled it from SoundCloud, which is an MP3.
• 5:18
  Dave Kropf: Once we get into here, however, we're starting to get in some pretty spiky highs, and this is from the high pitched little bell kind of thing, and it's really really extreme.
• 5:39
  Dave Kropf: I mean we're hitting 20 dB above unity in the 14K and that's really really high, and I imagine if we weren't pulling from an MP3 off SoundCloud we'd probably have even more.
• 5:54
  Dave Kropf: And so I think we need to tamp this down quite a bit, and I wouldn't compensate for it by pushing everything else higher.
• 6:07
  Dave Kropf: I wouldn't raise this section up.
• 6:11
  Dave Kropf: What we should be doing is kind of tamping these down because it's really really coming in and, as being a lifelong drummer, I've lost some frequencies much above there.
• 6:25
  Dave Kropf: So I imagine folks listening to this who might still have those frequencies were probably almost to a pain point Could have used a riser or something out coming out of this going into our breakdown, which I like and this is another instance where that bass sound just kind of sits there.
• 7:02
  Dave Kropf: It needs to have a little bit of modulation or filtering or something.
• 7:07
  Dave Kropf: Love that counter melody line and the sound sounds great.
• 7:14
  Dave Kropf: Love the.
• 7:15
  Dave Kropf: I would bring those out Because we really don't have much like that earlier.
• 7:21
  Dave Kropf: I mean, it's there but it's definitely not a feature and I think it would be really cool here in our breakdown to feature that sound.
• 7:30
  Dave Kropf: Maybe bring that out a little bit more here.
• 7:40
  Dave Kropf: Yeah, that's really really nice.
• 7:51
  Dave Kropf: I love that sound.
• 7:52
  Dave Kropf: I want more of it.
• 7:53
  Dave Kropf: Yeah, good job.
• 8:02
  Dave Kropf: One of the things we also need to be careful with is making sure that we're not going too close to unity.
• 8:07
  Dave Kropf: I imagine you probably set your peaks to about minus 0.1 or minus 0.2.
• 8:13
  Dave Kropf: And when they get translated to compressed audio like this, it can clip the output bus.
• 8:22
  Dave Kropf: So we're pushing dangerously close to clipping there.
• 8:28
  Dave Kropf: So we've got to be careful.
• 8:29
  Dave Kropf: I wonder if we back up a little bit, I think, maybe to help set up the fact that we're about to go back to our kind of our double time, maybe have some inner and have everything kind of stop and then do that.
• 8:50
  Dave Kropf: I think would have been cool.
• 8:52
  Dave Kropf: So I have the little drum fill and have the pickup note, just so that that our peggiator isn't pushing the whole time.
• 9:08
  Dave Kropf: That pulse, that's really nice.
• 9:14
  Dave Kropf: Again, we have some some spikes in their upper frequencies that we need to attend to and you have the all those little details.
• 9:38
  Dave Kropf: I think we can bring out a little bit more, especially here the last phrase, so we get the feeling of one more gear of energy.
• 9:44
  Dave Kropf: Yeah, really nice job, other than a few, a few mixing notes.
• 10:05
  Dave Kropf: Is is a weekend warrior ready for sync.
• 10:09
  Dave Kropf: I think we're really close.
• 10:10
  Dave Kropf: Weekend warrior, as far as the title doesn't necessarily do anything for me, I generally tend to evoke synthwave 80s imagery in my synthwave cues.
• 10:24
  Dave Kropf: How could you do that?
• 10:27
  Dave Kropf: I don't know.
• 10:27
  Dave Kropf: I always lean on like neon or slap bracelets or something like that.
• 10:32
  Dave Kropf: Weekend warrior just feels a little, a little generic.
• 10:36
  Dave Kropf: So I'm not sure.
• 10:37
  Dave Kropf: I'm not sure it is uh.
• 10:38
  Dave Kropf: It's really doing you any favors.
• 10:40
  Dave Kropf: But I think we're really close.
• 10:41
  Dave Kropf: I think, like I said, just a couple of mix issues really, and maybe a new title, and we will be ready for sync.
• 10:48
  Dave Kropf: Well, jacob, thank you so much for sending this along.
• 10:51
  Dave Kropf: Like I said, this was sent during our week 47 weekly feedback threads.
• 10:55
  Dave Kropf: We put weekly feedback threads together every single week and currently we are collecting for week 48 and I will be choosing one of these to feature next week.
• 11:03
  Dave Kropf: But if you want uh, if you want feedback on your own cue, you want to know is my cue ready for sync?
• 11:08
  Dave Kropf: Then head over to ismyqreadycom.
• 11:10
  Dave Kropf: You can order up your own feedback video.
• 11:13
  Dave Kropf: And also, if you are looking for uh coaching, mentoring, uh, head over to 52qscom, slash coaching.
• 11:20
  Dave Kropf: I would love to help you out.
• 11:21
  Dave Kropf: And uh, while you're there, why don't you join us at the 52 cues community?
• 11:25
  Dave Kropf: Um, uh, to join is free and we have membership subscription tier starting at just four dollars a month.
• 11:32
  Dave Kropf: But that is going to do it for me.
• 11:33
  Dave Kropf: Thank you so much for joining me, until next time, peace.