natives
this gives the feeling of walking arund in a cannibal lair or something, trying not to get caught and eaten :D
The percussion is really the main aspect of it, and you've made it sound very native and african style, at the same time the hats and very low kick sound much more like a drum kit, which is not really good for this song.
Some native instruments would sound good for this, it be pan flute, deep horn, didgeridoo or whatever, I don't know
I tried adding some melodies to it. But I found I liked the focus to be on the drums and the bass. Some tribal instruments could probably work though. I like the idea of a didgeridoo, I have a didgeridoo in my room which I can record for a later track.
scary shit
dude this song scared the living shit outta me :D
reminds me of some of my older stuff. creepy and subtle feeling, not really logical note progressions and tons and tons of textures and musical fx. The digitalizing of the atmosphere pad was very cleverly done, maybe my favourite aspect of the song. The piano could've been punched in at a few more places, for a lil more musical feeling.
Man these bird and cricket sounds make a really scary night feeling in the song.
shizzle
The scary "anything could jump out at you at any moment" sound is what I was going for. Glad you found the piece scary.
I didn't want to make it too melodic for fear of losing focus on the mood of the piece.
Grandmother's soup pie
the flanged claps or something sound really cool and building up, but a lil annoying when you use it this much. The beat was also incredibly repetitive... kick-hat-kick-hat-kick-hat-kick-hat-kick-hat-kick-hat-kick-
hat all the time
The orchestra hit-like synth sounds great, but the bass synth is also incredibly repetitive and sheepy
very nice buildups
fx
great
space jazz
very nice and gentle start with the driving acoustica bass ans jazzy rhodes. They flow very nicely together with the ambient beat and reverbed square synth. The reverse cymbal does good as a buildup for a new part, but it's really short and used in pretty many songs. Next up is a calmer part with a soft sawtooth lead. The melody is perfect and fits the lead choice very good, not too sharp and not too much like a pad. Your buildups with the gentle rimshots come in just when they should and the song continues as usual. That's proffesionally done.
Wow, such a detailed review! From the looks of it, you listened to it and wrote along. I'm flattered to hear that it sounds professional, since I consider myself only an amateur. I agree with your comments on the reverse cymbal, it is a bit overused. I felt appropriate when I was writing it, but I'll work on using something else as a buildup.
Thank you for the helpful review!
Generic LFO synths
It's just a bunch of leads that goes together to make a somewhat completed track with the different lfo's and stepping... and it's getting really boring after a while. Your start is way too long, and the piano came in really laaate... yea the parts comes slow together. Where the snares are I'm supposed to hear the heaven where all the track breaks loose but it never happens, it just turns off. On a much later part you have a somewhat satisfying continuation. But it's all coming very slow, and there's really nothing catchy or special. But that's just my opinion of course
well
the chimes sound prett random and gibberish, but the following stuff is good. I like the way you combine the square bass with the percussion and chimes. Very nice idm-ish style to it.
I love the random changing in this, it's really unique. Great work
oh man
so low resolution... gawd it's killing
but this is some great industrial, the drums are really catchy and sound really lo-fi and cool.
the bass is good, but a lil cheeap bassline and variation. A lil empty on the percussion solo too. sounds a lil loosely put together.
anyways good stuff.
Meh, I think its alright, I could do better
oh man
the start is way to random and unstructured, it makes the whole song sound gibberish when it's so long. you seem to put together quite a few samples to make the beat in it, it sounds quite cool really. But the song is too still and lacks movement. you need drums at the same time as you have the synths. if you make first drums and then synths as you did it sounds.. bad
the sound later on it is still way random, but much better. too bad it doesn't fit my taste a lot. it sounds much more like a mess to me. it's just my opinion, don't worry.
c u
wow, this is trippy
damn great input when the beat came in, I was expecting something of the like, but not as powerful and energic as that.
the start isn't directly happening, but at least it's not too slow. about a quarter of the song is a lil long for an intro though. Combination of synthesizement in the intro is interesting. the synth strings sound deep, and so does the seq bass you have, making it a lil deep and drowned. Therefore it was a good desicion having the saw in there quite quickly. The song in a whole is to energic for the start. I suggest you to add small, subtle and slow drum samples very sparingly, either a slow rhytmic hat each measure or so, or a ride cymbal with arythmic, jazzy hits. you get it or what? :) the note progression in the start is good, classic and not neccesarily eye catching, but that isn't what the song is about, as it's more of a slow steady tune.
the saw/square hybrid sounds ok, but I don't like the detuning on it. sounds like it's like 150 pitch bend measures too high. A very generic and not especially original choice which can easily be replaced with something else. It is good for a choice and doesn't crush the tune nor feeling.
you're right the drums may sound like in a box, but it's hard to know if you don't know that's what it is. If you mean the kick, then it's really vague, and the snare sounds much more like hitting a box (DnB snare). The digital toms could also sound like in a box, but it isn't closed (tight) enough.
I just remarked the gabber kick- it makes a good rhytm when you don't hear it, but just "feel" it, then it makes the song rythmic and catchy. but if it's too loud it's cheesy and annoying. In this case, it's a bit borderline.
The clap is very well placed, reasonable and does neither take away attention or getting drown. however the disortion took a little overhand and made it sound like a kick at times.
The end is reasonable, there's nothing wrong with it, so I'll stick with not commenting it. However if you watn to go to the proffesional class of music making you need to make something special for the end which suits the song, but sounds different from the other parts of the song. More meat on the bone rite.
overall this is a pretty damn good song, which needs some fixes and shapes up if you want to make it farther with it. at least that is my thought about it. err I mean my opinion. good work man
could I have a review or two back? I need more feedback on my latest songs :)
hey
can't make a long review now so
good breathing sound, the flange on the drums sounds good. A square synth makes a nice feeling. good way of assembling all these tracks into the song. Nice use of fx, not overdriven nor a lack of it.
I like the hiphop y synth in it. The song proceeds without problems but it's a lil repetitive as most songs are. A little more progress coulda done it
good work, it sounds pretty damn well
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