I tried pushing the sound louder and using more soft clip and such to get that really strong distorted sound. I think it worked out pretty nicely, but how do I avoid the conversion from lossless to lossy formats introducing artifacts? I think YouTube especially really did something to the loudest parts. :<
Other than that, I’m happy with the end result, yay! :3
I continued using SoundCloud’s artist subscriptions distribution thingy and it seems to work fine!
Original track description from the YouTube video:
Like the previous upload, this is two tracks that are part of one complete FL Studio project! Part 1 is mostly at 105bpm but is increased to 210bpm for more intense segments. Part 2 is my favorite segments from working on part 1 expanded and mostly in that 210bpm tempo.
I put more effort into layering the kick through multiple mixer tracks and adjusted their gains throughout the song. Sakura is turning out to be one of my favorite plugins. I really enjoy trying to tweak it to sound like a distorted guitar. Speaking of distortion, Youtube’s compression really hits hard after working with the track in lossless formats, if you like the track, please consider checking it out for example on SoundCloud or Bandcamp and downloading the lossless versions. :3
I’ve been continuing working on these during my free time and, idk, for this I spammed the “new version” button in FL Studio only 39 times (versus 150 on the previous). Either I’m improving at knowing what I want to make, or I’m just forgetting to save more often.
Art on the actual release is a fairly old selfie at this point that I just happened to have on my computer… pushed the color values to oblivion and idk, the text is pretty fun, I added a dropshadow, gradient hue on it, then I think it is the slur filter on GIMP, gives it that distorted rainbow look