Lauer

Hi Philipp! Sorry for the late review, and thanks so much for your valuable advice on making the track cleaner and more percussive. When I’m close to finishing a track, it often feels like there’s some extra space that needs to be filled, or that it’s missing a bit of groove, which is why I tend to add FX here and there. But you’re 100% right, I need to push myself to use them only when they’re really necessary so the track stays clear and easy to follow :) I think I need a little break from this track now haha, but I’ll definitely let you know if I make a V3 or start working on new projects. I will receive my K2000 at the end of the week and will try to make a new track with it soon. It only has the factory presets on it. I’ve seen on the internet that there is a big nerd community that has upgraded their synths and created tons of new presets available online. They replace the floppy disk drive with an SD or USB one, add orchestral cards, extra RAM, etc. To be honest, I’m not a great sound designer, so it sounds interesting to me in terms of presets, but I’m probably even worse with putting my hands into electronic systems. I’ll take some time to explore the factory presets and all the functionality of the synth before making a decision, I guess. Thanks again for all your feedback, I really appreciate it! :) 2RUF

Thanks for the feedback, Philipp! Super constructive — it really helped me get some perspective. I’m going to rework the arrangement to better frame the intro, the peak time, etc. You’re right as well, I’ll simplify the bass — having two dedicated layers made it a bit too complex on the ear. I also think I can rework the melody and the drums; they might be a bit too simple, or too locked to the beat. The real challenge now will be changing all that without losing the essence of the track — not that easy for me haha. It’ll probably take some time, but I’ll of course keep you posted once I’ve got a new version I’m happy with! PS : Loved the full cheese fashion style !

Hello Laurel, many thanks for the feedback. Specially your opinion about arrangement and harmony. It is clearly something to improve, not only on this track but as also for future productions. Cheers!

Thanks Lauer! Really great feedback, I appreciate your time and input. i'm gonna work on the arrangement and send it through. I also am borrowing a 606 so maybe this can be our 16th note hi hats. Have a good day brother, hope you are feeling better Xx

Great as usual! Highly recommended, as usual!! Track ist endlich fertig. Besten Dank Philipp :-)

Thank you very much for your feedback! It's very encouraging! I'm going to try to find the labels you recommended! And I'm going to write to you on Instagram, it will be more practical... It goes without saying that I love what you do! See you soon and sorry if my English is not very good... In fact, my old man's name is Frederique Sueur, see you soon.

AGAIN, highly regard Philipp Lauer's feedback to anyone who really wants to improve with their own music. Also big thanks to the Echio-Team for making it possible, to get this honest, empathic and super helpful feedback from no one else but legendary Lauer.

Since Philipp Lauer (Berghain, Robert Johnson, Beats in Space etc...) is an experienced Multi-instrumentalist for years, he understands Dance Music inside out, and therefore knows how to finish High Quality Music within hours - as if he was just cooking an healthy dish for his evening dinner. Now I recieved my second Feedback from Italo-Techno`s Gentlemen-Dinosaur - and again, he shared his knowledge in a very relaxed, highly empathic and super motivational way. I´m looking forward to future Feedbacks from him - and highly (highly) recommend this to anyone - who loves Post-House-Proto-Disco-Trance, or just high quality music in general.

Thanks very much for your review, Lauer! I've already made a couple of changes in the track :)

Hey Philipp! Thank you so much for the great feedback... hopefully you were able to get my reply!

Thx for that nice Feedback Philipp. :)

Philip LAUER is an amazing producer that we've been looking up to since forever! His response was immediate and his constructive criticism elevated our track and helped us a lot. This dude knows his stuff. <3 <3 <3 Thanks for everything Philip! Cannot wait to work with ya' again!

Philipp advice is straight to the point and the result of years of experience, but he also is super chill and his delivery is very comforting and soothing. He helped me a great deal finishing this song!

Hey Philipp!! thank you so much for the answer I found it super helpful. Really loved the feedback man, direct, and helpful, as it should be. :) I'm actually gonna go back and try implement some of the stuff you mentioned since my mixing engineer hasn't started working on it yet. I talked to my pianist friend about the piano stabs, he also found them a tiny bit off but he said they still work in the track as a whole, so I might leave them as they are, just cause I'm being lazy, but def trying the strings and other arrangement tweaks you mentioned. II would love to send you a v2, perhaps I can request feedback for another track and also throw in a link for the v2 of this one? or does this need another request on its own? ehhe Anyhow, little bird told me you might be coming to Seattle around August, if so, I would LOVE to get a lemonade and talk shop with you!!

Hi Lauer, thanks a lot for your feedback! It's very helpful and there are a lot of nice tipps, i will try to work them in and rework and try to simplify my track!

Hey, Thanks for getting back to us again. We’re happy the feedback is positive. I know what you mean about the high bass sound. We have had trouble automating the specific plug in that we were using. Although we like it we’ll cut our losses with it and find another instrument for that line that is more easily adjustable. We’ve got another couple of sessions together coming up so we’ll send you the final cut once this is completed. Thanks again for the help so far, we really appreciate it! Jake & Laurie

Hi Philipp, Sorry to hear you were ill. Hopefully you are much better now. Thank you for the feedback. It was really helpful and amazing to get your thoughts on it. Sorry for the amount of time we took to get back to you with the second version, it's been a busy couple of weeks! We've made some changes to the track based on your suggestions which have hopefully improved it. There's less of different instruments coming in and what we have left in repeats a little more. Hopefully this has made it more cohesive. But yes, when you can, we would love to get your thoughts on this version. We look forward to hearing back from you. Thanks again, Jake and Laurie

Thanks a lot for the great feedback Philipp! Particularly liked the fact that you referred back to the previous track and feedback we had exchanged about, and all the hints are perfectly actionable - I’ll tame a bit the horses hahaha 😄 Thanks again!! Cheers, Lionel

Lauer was very helpful with his feedback with a few suggestions of improvements that will help my track. I appreciate the professional approach he had.

Very nice and helpful Feedback - have been able to develop my track further thanks to the inputs, many thanks!

Hi Lauer, Hab mich voll über dein Feedback gefreut. Ich hab tatsächlich die HHC vergessen und es ist mir überhaupt nicht aufgefallen. :D Ich check mal die Punkte aus, die du gesagt hast und schicks dann nochmal rum. Danke dir und liebe Grüße

Yeah super Feedback. Super cool.