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[mrac november audio comp]

meh.

A MRAC review, zomg.
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Effects are fun indeed, but somtimes it turns out making the track really bad. The over-usement of this brass synth made it shimmering, annoying, and also makes the clarity VERY bad.
And why did you use HM`s ChilledMasta as the background? That makes it really weird, and it makes most people think you
steal, maybe you didn`t, seeing that it is somewhat different, but still.

This sounds like screaming and pained people making a synth, and it really didn`t turn out any well. The end was way too abrupt, only to fit the 3-minute limit. I didn`t like this, sorry.

Originality: 7 (Original with those effects)
Diversity: 6 (Somewhat, but not much)
Clarity: 2 (Awful)
Effort: 5 (This needs more work. A lot more.)
Catchiness/Appeal: 2.5 (I wouldn`t bother playing this twice)
Overall: 4 (This needs a lot more)

Adjusted MRAC score: 15.3

mhb responds:

yes!!!!!!!

[Chasing Dreams (MRAC06 NOV)]

Don`t change your name

I had a hard time finding you! Here`s a MRAc review, shame on you
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Sounds really not so dreamy, but still. You made this sound more like the original, a royal theme with a twist.
Still, you`ve too made it an original and exiting track. The beginning gave me NO idea about what would come later in the track, so I`d say you have a great originality.
You changed the main melody a bit, but I can hear the melody and bassline though.
Well, for the downsides, the orgel-sounding instrument was very loud, and makes the other instruments sounding like more of a soup.
Good work, it`s one of the better remixes here!

Originality: 9 (Different)
Diversity: 6 (A bit, not that much)
Clarity: 9.2 (CLEAR)
Effort: 8.5 (Not rushed)
Catchiness/Appeal: 6 (Not very much, sorry)
Overall: 7.8 (A good and original track)

Adjusted MRAC score: 56.6

Stealth-Emergence responds:

Don't change my name? it's too late I've done it now! is that why you had a hard time finding me?

Thanks SBB for the review!

Peace Out!

Stealth

[MRAC-01!!!]

mramra mia

Mrac review from SBB. Also, cocks.
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Well, this wasn`t the most original song of them, it doesn`t seem much different from the original except for the change into an amp.
You like effects too, I see.
But too bad they make the song clear as motor oil (That`s black, right?) and sounds really weird, in a bad way. There was a little part in the song with only the bassline, when I thought: Oh, my ears feel much better now! But too bad you went on with the bad-ass synthamp again! >:-(
I didn`t like this song, it could have been improved quite a lot, but it`s really fancy, though.

Originality: 5.5 (Rock, rock rock, cock (I like rock, but well...)
Clarity: 3 (HARSH)
Diversity: 4 (More diversity please)
Effort: 7 (I see much working...)
Catchiness/appeal: 6.5 (I could play this a lot)
Overall: 5 (You need more clarity and less monotyphicality)

Adjusted MRAC score: 28

TheAmateurAnimator responds:

Thanks. I appreciate all the help, I'll try not to load on too much effects in the next MRAC.

[Perfect Gone (Remix)]

Whoa

Your styule is so weird, so is this.
A really laidback, but still energic at times, track. I could say that about most of your tunes.
So... ya

DJRaveR responds:

YA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Umm, thanks.

[Super Mario 64 - Boss]

A R3M1X0R!

Whoa. This song, there`s really a lot I can say about it. This time I must make this review a little bit more systemathic than I use.

-(Main part)-

The start was not good at all and made me feel sicker than anything.

It got better in the song, but it was way too faint and such, so it didn`t give any musical feel, and rather made me want to turn the stuff off.

A good beginning is so very improtant to have for an enjoyable and good song. It turned MUCH better after a while when you turned away all the shit synths and toka a mega bass-lead-like synth.

Also, this is not the Boss Theme, it`s the Bowser theme!
But who cares.

You have some awesome and dominating percussion samples which made the song much better and made it rock out at it`s full potential.

The way you filled the background with countermelodies made the song really ass-kicking.
I especially liked the semi-arabic countermelody in the middle with that synthie.

May turn out too strung in the full song as it`s really loud with all the instruments upon each other.

When you brought back all the shit from the start, I was really disappointed. It was really not neccesary at all, and it could have continued just as normal.

-(Pros and Cons)-

Now I will look at what was good and bad.
+ Awesome drum and percussion
+ Countermelody paradise
+ Some instruments were unique and really well used
+ Very nice structure
+ Good middle part and end
+ Nice placement of the instruments at middle
+ Sick background effects and pads
+ Could play OVER AND OVER/Awesome catchiness
+ HOLY SHIT, what a mixing!
- Awful beginning
- Bad placement of instruments at beginning and end
- Too faint at times
- Overuse of Modulation Bend
. Strung as hell
So... well, I liked it more than I disliked it ;)

-(Improvement chances)-

-I think you could have the beginning with a more straight, direct synth like a runner or a basic synth.

-Don`t use modulation bend to much. It may sound cool, but in this case it turned out crap.

- Know your limits. It can have a lot of synths, effects and stuff, but don`t use it more than you want. I don`t know if you did, but it was way too much sound here, and it blends and such after a while.

-(Scores)-

Originality: 9
Totally redone version of the Bowser Boss theme track! But not totally done by yourself, the melody was at times very much like the original.

Clarity: 6
It was Video Game, yes, but it`s more of the Techno genre!
Also, very loud and strung at times. That`s a minus.

Diversity: 10
You are KING.

Effort: 9
This toke long long long long long long long time to make, but if you did like my notes said, it would have been better.

Overall: 8
Awesome, but something`s not good.

EDN!

PaulyBFromDa303 responds:

Wow man, you typed a handful, but you were really honest (unlike the other reviewers lol). You gave some good advice, which I will have to keep in mind when I write my next song. Thanx much, SBB.

(SBB ATE MY BABIES!!!)

[~)aspachi's emotion(~]

whyyyyyyyy

Well, why are you so sad?
It`s a thanksgiving theme and not supposed to be so sad and slow, better be happy and funny than sad and dramatic!

*Yet not invented Saaaad Faaaace Maaaaan*

Well, this sounds like a Maestro song, so it`s really good.
All of your instruments are fitting the theme, and all melodies are NOT fitting the theme, but they are fitting the instruments, so that`s a paradox I doubt I will even solve >(

great work on this.

*Insterts Fifen Pills*

aspachi responds:

i rushed this song , i'm not good with my melodies but i'm good at combining elements of my music. that's something i myself need to solve. anyone else who helps me i won't beable to learn the way of audio creation. thanks sbb hope to see you around some more =D.

[robotic world]

Gee

Lol that`s good work on the Reason demo song... but it`s maybe the song with less clarity I`ve heard.

It doesn`t sound directly good, it sounds more like it`s cracked together and not very thought of either.

Robotic, well it isn`t. It`s more... cracked, yeah.

I suggest you to heavily lower the volume at some of the soundboxes and use a very effective chorus effect, which maybe could destroy some of the feeling of this song. Since it`s meant to robotic, then I doubt you want.

You could reimport the track from Reason (This can`t be anything else) and then save it at a *insert BIG word here* more quality.

aspachi responds:

i'm working on robotic world #2. this was my first audio i made in my whole life on the computer. so it couldn't have been the best audio. it was my first submission. don't forget to rate them from 1/5 to 5/5 depending how you felt about the song. thanks for another glorious review =).

[Mario Metal Cap Remix]

awww....

I don`t know if I all my newgrounds life have had a different view at scores than they really are?
So... clarity doesn`t synonym to "CLEARity?"
And diversity isn`t how much content it is in the song or how diverse it is? It`s just the same as originality?

Aww... my mrac scores must be so fucked up then....

Gee, but this is sick, I liked your SE better though, due to the awesome beginning.

But this was really great, I fucking loved the synths and your trademark dirty trancelead.

And your version of the melody... I must just say, I bow down to your superiority!

HouseMasta responds:

yea, the SE's are better, as i worked harder on them. thanks anyway for the review!

[MindSight]

Didn`t I review this?

But I thought I did.
Aww.... but, gongratulations on getting to the 1st place on A-Bot`s weekly choices! Must be awesome!

I liked this, it seems like an oriental theme in a city, with many people at a marked, buying and selling different wares.
The sun is going down over the city, and they keep on the selling until it`s night, and everyone has to go home and sleep.
</lol_copying_maestro_in_a_minor_way>

But seriously, this was really good.
You had some great instruments and they all fit the theme you seemingly, but not known, set up, for this song.

Maybe the music box wasn`t really great and broke up some of the feeling of this track.
You could always do some effects with them, like reverbing, chorus and such to make them fit more.

The piano was great and really did fit. Except for the ending, when the piano was very off-tone and seems like you just made it and thought it was OK with that.
If you have an awesome ending, the song always get much better! (Though the beginning is the most important part)

But what I liked most with this song was that electrofied flute, and it makes me wish you had more of it, probably a flute solo, but you didn`t.... :´( (sniff).
Great work and such, I love you tracks man!

War in!

SBB

Stealth-Emergence responds:

Thanks man!

I'm chuffed to bits at that! :)

ahh oriental theme that hadn't occurred to me, I can see it now!

ahh the music box that was a harpsichord which I've kinda grown fond of lately as I used it on Mysteries After Dark too

The electronic flute was a piccolo which I think I put a slight phase on (if I remember rightly)

more of the flute eh? well I wanted to try and avoid flute, just so that I would have the opportunity to explore different avenues with different instruments

But I'm sure I'll use more flute in the not too distant future, as I gotta confess I just love flutes! :)

again thanks for your review SBB

Peace Out!

Stealth

[-Until-]

Like

I always appreciate good ambient tracks, this being one of the really good ones.
In the beginning I expected a halfway average sounding track, but it soon evolved into an AMAZING musical experience.
There`s only one of these musical and melody-making synths, however, it was enough....(I think)....
I think!

But be sure not to have too buzzing instruments, though that can add a great flavour, this time it was a little bit lame...

Realy nice and well done ambient sound producers there, though sharp and crushed, they add the breathing sound, always appreciated by me and sure many others.

All of these instruments are pretty cold... how dare you use my style!
But you made it more diverse by some drums I really don`t know how good they were, at one hand, most tracks get much better by the act of adding drums, so did this, but I don`t know if the drums were any good at all!

You could use to soften most of your tracks here, this is very sharp for being ambient, an ambent should be relaxing, and this was... to a point.

Nice track, could have been better, but good work anyways!

attemptedperfection responds:

the "buzzing instruments" were actually a side effect of one of my ambient synth-machines malfunctioning when dealing with overtones... so, rather than re-do them, I decided to keep it, 'cause I thought it sounded rather nifty.
thanks for the detailed review!