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[ETA - Shen (Alpha version)]

yeh

The synth sounds very cheesy to me, but that doesn't matter. The only thing that needs to be fixed up is that weird click sound in the start of the (hardly audible btw, either you eq-ed it at the lower limit of human hearing or it's way too silent) And yes, I also find it very repetitive and unpolished. A fascinating thing about it is how intensely loud it is with the volume all up- I guess you did an awesome job with the eq-ing since it covers tons of frequencies- the con side is that it makes the high end of the synths sound like white noise :/

Good work nevertheless, I wanna hear a final version

Shenkhar responds:

Hmmm... yeah, that is a problem. I tried to make it as intense as possible - but my theory was that in doing so I somehow ruined it. Reading your review I realized that it is the the eq-ing, as well as some multi-band harmonic exitation I had on the main synth/pads (I.e, as you said, they come off like white noise) Sooo, I'll do some more work on it... try to tone it down (pick a diffrent lead synth, because honestly I can't stand it either) and add some diversity.
Thanks for the review SBB :D
- shenkhar

[Khuskan - Not Enough]

Great

I absolutely love it, instant favourite. The mix of vibey rhodes and piano is great, and the (pretty silent) guitar and drums add to the tranquility and mood and that stuff. The vocals really fit well too, great voice and lyrics. I can't really think of anything to improve with this song, wonderful work!

Khuskan responds:

Wahay, the sort of response I was hoping for :D

The quiet guitar used to be a lot less quiet - Until I had to modulate the whole thing from E minor to B minor, because I managed to write some impossible vocal lines. After Tamar had a go at me, I had her sing the track to a basic piano mix, and once the vocals were secure, transposed all the synthed and sampled stuff down.

The guitar was the only track at the time that was audio as opposed to individual note samples, and I (proudly) recorded it myself on a converted 1970s acoustic to electric guitar. I didn't have the time to re-record it to fit the deadline (this is coursework for a music course I'm doing) so I bit the bullet and transposed the audio in cubase. This left a few artifacts, so I had to knock the volume down - but it ended up sounding better than it did before.

It also has the side effect of making that guitar riff very, very difficult to play.

[GoodBye Strangers]

Omg

You made me remember Supertramp

You get my ten for that

mariomusicmaker1 responds:

YEA! thanks :D

I would have used reason pianos but reason refuses to start and says i have driver issues so when i fix this i will redo it ( possibly the whole song) with reason :D

thanks for review

AND Where are your songs? havent herd any thing new for a while :'()

[[Kriz] - Delightness]

Hay

I really like this song. The lead in the start sounds pretty juicy and fresh, which I really love. You got some good use of fx and snare rolls and that too. I actually like the usage of clap here. The only thing I didn't quite like is the analog sound being introduced at about 1:00. I felt it didn't quite fit the rest of the trancy goodness in the song.

Very good structure too, That climaxing was cleverly done. The whole thing sounds pretty professional, and though there's some stuff that makes in not perfectly perfect (in my opinion), it's a great song. Good work, keep stuff up!

[=[O]= Chaoz Jungle [B.E.]]

Niiiiiice

The start with fast paced bongos n stuffs fits well, I haven't really heard that being used in dnb and other stuffs like that before. The bass was probably the thing I enjoyed most with this, it sounds sorta analog but still has an interesting and different sound. The other drums ya got are interesting though, though when you phased them you could prolly have phased them a bit more so it sounds like that and not like you just put some weird filter on it. Oh and that alarm/siren/whatever the heck you want to call it, is ace. rvmbckplz

0con responds:

Why thank you ;)

Yeah man I love using bongos a lot, and for this song them being fast fit pretty well.

That bass was a pain in the ass to make lol, I do like the way it turned out though so I do believe it was worth the ffort ;)

On the drums I actually used a flanger, not a phaser lol.

And fuck yes, the siren was epic as hell so I had to use that sample lol

Thanks for the review! I will drop one your way soon =)

OCON

[SysRq-The Last Color]

arrrrrr

That beginning is promising, wit h epic bell sounds, sad pads, fx and all that. So you'd think it woul be some epic awesome shit- but it didn't turn out to be quite that. But it's close! It stands pretty much on the same place in the beginning, doesn't move on before that piano comes in.

And when that piano comes in- well that piano sounds absolutely horrible. First of all it's off key most of the time, so it just makes the song sound awkward. And the piano samples you used are horrible. It kinda makes it sound more like the background music in sims games (which I don't like either). But that piano is mostly the only negative thing to say about it. I suggest you try find a better piano sound. Well I see what you're doing with the melodies, and they fit well when they're on key, it's just when it's following the main melody that it's too argh-ish

Drums- the hat rhytm makes them sound more like a professional song. The kick and snare thing works too and fits both hats rhytm and everything else, but make the kick louder, now it's hardly audible really. So it sounds like there's only a hat and snare.

I'm loving the pad you used, the sound of it is absolutely lovable, makes the beginning sound epic as hell. The fx stuff you sparely use through the song is good too, so it would work better if you used it more frequently.

The bell sound is another great thing about this song. The melodies sure as hell are great, and they fit the snappy light sound of the bell.I personally think you used that delay quite too much, and you hear that near the end hwen it's almost silent. But it doesn't mess up the track too much anyways, so really, it works perfectly fine as is.

Maybe I sound too harsh on the song but I usually point out the things that can be improved in reviews. This is a lovable piece of music, but some parts mess that up. If you just fix up the stuff I mentioned I'd like it much more but that's opinion. For now you get my eight and you get my four, good work, keep working on this a littlllllllllle

SysRq00 responds:

Yerr, tis hard to make good things come out of FL Keys but it's all I got for now. I've actually been looking for a better sounding piano, but I'm still using FL Keys for now. And I worked hard on messing with the drum levels, and I agree that the kick was a bit neglected. Easy fix, though.

Thanks so much for the review, you've given me a LOT of good points to work on. I'm really enjoying working with this genre so this will certainly help me with my future music.

[Tuesday's Suck Shit]

rawr

the guitar and bass work is great. So is the drums work though I don't really like that "oh let make kicks go like a machine gun" thing in metal, but I guess it follows with the genre somewhat. When all vocals in the first part was simply "Tuesdays suck", it sounded more like you couldn't think of anything to say, so you just screamed the first thing that came in your mind :D It sounds better when the vocals came in later on though.

This is some good, yummy stuff

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Haha, thank you very much SBB. Machine gun drums ftw. It would be even cooler to use an actual machine gun sound...for those parts...haha...Oh the idea you just gave me. Bastard. haha

Thanks for the wicked review, bro.\m/

[(::Flying Down To Shadows::)]

hey =(

dude I thought the ==(???)== thing was MINE lol :( Can't you at least use another tag like .:[???]:. or whatever (that was the first thing I could come of but anyways. You're impersonating me ain't ya

oh and anyways, I quite like this tune. From the *coughpresetcough* fx in the start it adds up to some more interesting stuffs. I like the drums you got there, but they sound strangely familiar. Hey I noticed a *coughpresetcough* note progression on that pad. And now there's a loop you took straight outta the loopbank eh :( You shouldn't really be doing that.

Ok so it changed massively into some ambient soundscape later on. I don't really mind that but it does have a nice sound. I notice you use most of the presets I used when I was using GarageBand only. That's interesting. Ya ever heard my very old song Scarecrowes? It's using kind of the same instruments.

Well it's a pretty good soundscape thing you got going here, but please edit your song and change the title so it doesn't contain that ==()== thing plz :(

FatKidWitAJetPak responds:

Oh yeah! Sorry, I didn't mean to steal your =()= And I use some loops in the loop library to make different combanations in sounds. =) I'm glad you liked it. And yes, the very end had MAJOR changes because it was supposed to represent the title. It looks like we can only create a collab with garageband version 2 though!n (For some reason I need to buy the Ilife thing) Well, thanks for the review! You are my influence BTW But I come up with these ideas by random not by what I listen to sao i haven't seen your song "screwdrivers" =)

[Rig - What if? (The End)]

yay

yay lightie drums, I like it all. The bass sounds like it's quacking lol. Again you got some pretty fuggin amazing tricks for yer drums. The same high frequent triangle thing is getting really annoying after a good while though, it kinda kicks my ears off the fuggin globe you hear what I'm saying :D

Blah apart from that it was a really really good tune and a good end for the show too. Now it IS very repetitive but again I don't care bout THAT

Rig responds:

If you're dancing the night away in a club, where this was originally played, you don't care about repetitiveness. lol
Thanks for the reviews, by the way! They're greatly appreciated. :D

[Rig - What if? (The Realm)]

Good

now this tune wasn't too interesting diversity wise, it was really one part being stretched into a long piece. But it sounds good neverthalezz. Though I'm not so sure about that guitar or some ethnic instrument sound. It just doesn't sound as good as the other stuff you got there, like them wind effects and such. Eh it doesn't matter, nice post-acopalypse thang

Rig responds:

Yeah, I don't really like it either. I should change it. Thanks!