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[I see clouds and stars.]

haha

Thing is it's not a mrac, it's a mac ;)

But yeah the most noticeable thing about this song is definitively the bit-crushed percussion sweetness. One thing about them though, those panning cymbals in certain parts sound like sweet fucking Christ, way too ongoing and aggressive- also stress the hell out of me.

Some very nice melodies embedded into there between all the drummage, FX's and stabs, they're not much present at all.But well that's all-rite. It's DRUM n bass isn't it, not drum n melodies n bass, amirite. Brings me to another thing though, not much bass goin' there.

I'm nitpicking too much. It's another nice, fancy lil song. Good work!

attemptedperfection responds:

oops, my bad. :P
thanks much for the constructive feedback; I may take those cymbals down a notch before the deadline... I tried to put as much bass in as I could, but it's hard to get good bass out of buzz... maybe I'll try a few more things...
anyway, thanks again for the review!

[tech demo]

harrr

All melodies sound pretty random. Sounds like you just mashed out the first thing on your guitar or somethin'. Drums sound pretty good in texture and so, but except for the tom fills it's repetitive as hell for sure. Try doin' that melody more like, structured, and we'll be talkin' some nice stuff

[_-={An Endless Desert}=-_*Ext*]

Greatness

I see you submitted it to classical instead right- cause it really sounds a lot more like classical/ethnic thing than that... AMBIENT genre you speak of... I dunno

This is one of the few songs I've ever heard where there's a sitar without it sounding like a poorly edited saw wave. Good thing :D You sure as hell have a lot of other ethnic instruments, which sound great too. Especially liked that flute- now I'd personally dip it even deeper in a sea of reverb, but that's just what I like doin' with flutes.

It's pretty obvious where you started extending the song, but meh, that's okay. All them melodies sound so slickkkk together, they were made for each other :O nah really, take the oboe for example, that's lovely sound for ye

Great song. Nothin' more to comment about that, except maybe a 'bettr revw ma bak' because wtfs.

MaestroRage responds:

Ambient you say!? I SAY THIS IS NOT AMBIENT, THIS IS CLASSTAAAAAAAHH!

Yeah the first rendition was a failed ambient attempt. I should probably delete that some day...

I love doin that with flutes too, but if I made it too reverby it would kinda ruin the bass end, and then i'd be left with no bass, and then the drums would slam my eardrums into Valhalla.

Do you want my drums to be in Valhalla!? DO YOU!?

I love teh oboe :D

I'll review you back like RIGHT AWAYS! Thank you for the review SBB, i'm glad you liked it! I apologize for the late response!

[Den of the Lion]

bahhhhhhhhh

I WILL NEVER RETURN YOUR REVIEWS.

OH SHIT I DID

Anyways, great little ethnic/chillout piece. Lovely tabla, piano feels a bit drowned in the mix. Might want to add some thick, yet airy reverb to that, and a bit of loudness or something

Them toms felt pretty harsh at times, or timpani or what ya wanna call 'em. too in-your-face for this kind of song.

Loops perfectly, sounds great, is great.

Suspended-3rd-Chord responds:

haha :P

loadsa reverb on the piano, perhaps to big of a size, but yes, making it louder sounds good. I was kinda going for harsh toms, what I think it needs is some cymbals and maybe a triangle...thanks for the ideas bro! your review is appreciated :D

[-Radioactive-]

fudgin'

Now I felt this lil track was 4 minutes of adjective used to express satisfaction, acceptance, pleasure, excellence, exaltation, approval, awe, or reverence.

That detuned bass thing is one lovely piece of synth, especially with that melody, the short notes and frequency slidin' thing ya did shaped it like a block of pure awesome. Sounds a bit like a hoover in some parts

Drum are wonderful, especially loved that hatty ditty rhytmSome great fx stuff spread through the whole thang. The other rhytms aren't really much audible, don't hear much of that kick and clap. Snare is very present through the whole thing though. Some great FX spread through the whole track too.

It does feel a bit repetitive after a good while, but most songs do that, so it doesn't matter too much. Maybe mix up a bit with the main drum patterns, which felt like the same thing over the whole thang.

Overall some catchy, dancy and overall just awesome piece of great

Respond to the review and/or return one plz. I dare you :P

[~EnV~Heaven Rd. 2 (Ng mix)]

Bombin' shit

Great stuff. Lovely synths, great drums, voice samples fit perfectly, melodies of pure pleasure, clever structure and perfectly mixed.

Awesome song.

Good to see ya again too.

Envy responds:

Hah, good to hear from you on this. Wasn't sure if this was your "bag" baby. But glad it worked with you! Thanks.

I took such a long break to work on my mixing and such, so whatever sounds better is thanks to my time "away."

[-=Interstellar=-]

yeh

very slow intro, but that's okay. And with THAT much of an intro, the rest of the track better be mighty awesome. Yeah there it kicks off. Nice arpy thing ya did, fits well with the bassie. Awesome choir. Clappy snare doesnt fit with the other drums, it sounds more like a solo rhytm than a part of a drum rhytm.

You have some absolutely lovely synth sounds going... very emotional notes (which I guess ya gated and arped to boot) are played through the song. It changes styles quite a lot too... some house, soft trance, hard trance, happy hardcore, dnb, oh there's some hands up and club too- all mixed up into a nice, smooth piece.

Well done! You get my 10

review me back yo :D

[Detecori II]

ugh awkward

Well this didn't take too much time did it? It doesn't sound like you put much effort into making it sound good at all... then again I might be wrong. The synths sound almost comical... basic, cheesy, ugly melodies :/ You did a pretty swell job with some though. Vocals, nothin' to add there. The drums, same as with synths- but they're really not dnb-ish at all- at least when there's no snare at all

Maybe if ya spent some more time with it, tried making it sound a lil more... dnb :P

cya