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[[MS] - Stepping Stoned]

HELLO MACKERELSALAD ^_________^

now this is one trippy ambient song! When I heard the beginning I thought it was gonna be an all percussional/step song, but you made it farther than there and put a nice piano with all the synths to it. I loved how the stepping goes on all the time and against all thoughts makes a neat rhytm. Quite cool drum sample you got later in there, but it's a really bad sound quality on it and it sounds kinda far away like you reverbed it way too much.

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MackerelSalad responds:

Hey dude, thanks for the criticism.
I really need to step up my final mastering skills, because I quite fucked up on this one.
Things will be better, I promise. =]
Thanks for the review!

[-Orr- Christmas Eve]

hi ^^

The beginning is... EXTREMELY loud and Disney-like, except for the flute thrills. I don't generally like this kind of christmas music, but this one is a bit more outdone and cleverly assembled than the others. Especially liked the way you made total silence before the next more sad part, but still made it intergrate with the rest of the piece. the next part i felt was a little too fast-paced and happeh.

I can't really say I liked the flute through the piece, it's a little bit too happy and light for the rest of the piece.

but this track is great, awesome job!

why aren't you submitting stuff anymore :(

DavidOrr responds:

I love flutes, they just make everything sound happier and such. Since this is a Christmas piece piece, I figured "The happier the better", but we all have our own opinions!

I am submitting stuff again, although I don't know how much more I will be submitting here. Anything that I don't have plans for ends up here, but I seem to be doing more and more projects and less "just for fun" stuff.

Thanks for the review!

[Mysterious forest underground]

hey, astrono

this sounds really much like a level in the Yoshi's Island games! I'm not entirely sure this would fit a jungle at all, it has a pretty closed atmosphere and NO sound fx or effect device at all. therefore it isn't "wide" enough!

There is a jungle beat in this however, which does help out making a good feeling. There's a water drop thing there I think... it doesn't really have anything to do there.

The drum samples you use are of... downright shitty quality, but the pattern is good though unoriginal.

I can see this getting into a great song if you fixed and shaped it a little, and added some pads, reverb etc to it. and lenghtened it.

Nice piano btw ^_^

Astrono responds:

Well thanks, but you didn't had to give only 10's :P
And i added the water drops because it sometimes rains in a forest and after you most of times hear the water drops.
And about the bad quality, i know but that's because of the program i use and i still have to find some better sounds to use in my next songs.
Thank you for your nice review! :)

[_-+-Return to Me-+-_]

...weird...

this is weird, being a choir of people saying "hallaluja" and two other choirs followed by a harsh, fx-like 303 thing and a half heavy drum pattern

That IS really weird.

The only thing that was annoying here was the ongoing hat ALL the time, which sounds good in the beginning, but could've been done slower latere when the rest of the song comes

The organ-like synth sounds great, really creepy, but it's quite bad quality on it.

This is like SineHeffalump said pretty good for someone who does metal most of the time

ye

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Hahaha... thanks alot man. Weird, yes. I have these choir samples, no idea what to do with them...so I did this. I also found it annoying, mostly because I find techno annoying...haha. So I kept the trend going. Thanks for the cool review, man\m/

[Sharing The Goodbye]

beautiful

I especially liked the beginning. There's not really any need for anything more if you have a lot of pads to make an atmosphere in the while it lasts.

The next part, where percussion, piano and strings came in was made very masterfully into the song. I didn't quite like the end, which was just two pretty unwisely placed kicks for two measures- you should've done something more out of it than that.

Also this song needs to be downloaded for listening how is that

BelialSunSet responds:

Thank you, the pads in anything make the mood from the get go. And to andwer your question, I'm not really sure, this has happened to a few of my other songs. I uploaded them, and they wouldn't even play for me, I don't really understand it. It's random...

[Drums, Lots Of Dums]

yes

a track is not drum and bass for being just simple drum patterns with snares, kicks and has going on at random measures- THAT'S NOT WUT DNB IZ

It's just a drum pattern assembly. Try making something that's worth listening to before throwing it out there. Really

KittenInAStocking responds:

Then what category do I put it in, hm?
The absolutely random drum pattern category?
Drums and Bass.
Keyword: Drums

I don't see any other category with drums in it

[Cyberflare]

ah trance-ish fun tunes for cities

I'm not entirely sure this is ambientz- i believe trance would go better for this track (happyminimalistic synthpop with tastes of oriental-inspired new age-electronica if you want)

loved the little bass-ish lead, but when there are pads going on, it's disorting a little, so master it for further versions plz k?

except for that there's not a lot of things to say about production or result, it's a good song and that's it

(IT'S FUCKEN FIVE VOTED)

Syntrus responds:

Yes i'm fuckin happy

[Killing Spree]

FAST FAAAAASTER FAST FAST really fast :P

oh my god that is extremely fast and frantic.

but I like it as it went on. Except for the pretty weak beginning and repetetive beat going on ALL the time with random hats as the only exception, I like it quite a lot. The leads sound pretty damn great.

not your style? If this is how your tracks of this style comes out I think you should totally continue making these tracks. GREAT WORK!

but cut down on that floppy bass please

preffertobedead responds:

ha!..i <3 u so much SBB =D...YES..it's repetitive...i don't think i release tracks like this very often...cuz...it's weird to me to get tunes like this in my head..O.o...dunno...maybe i was just in a madness mood...=P..

the Floppy Bass...i dunno why i used it in my last submissions =D...i just dunno why i liked it...but now that u say it i don't think i'l use it...i really follow the advices ppl tell to meeeh...=D...

thanks for stoping by and leaving a review...i'l assure of make the same for u...=D

;)

[Psychosis EXT (NGver)]

oh my...

a bossy video game track over 5:30... good luck on that....

starts out with wah-y, cheap thumb bass synths- I don't know, but it does fit pretty well with the VG-ish electric bass and the glitchy maniac beat. The scream that you put in sounds good, but it's peaking way too much. Very original done with crushing it later on the song.

The short lead part with a huge unison on the lead is good, you should've lenghtened these notes to fit out the whole track and give them more attention (That's just because it sounds so good)

the acid synth is coming back... sounds weird with the glock and the lead. The beat fits perfectly in there, very maniac as usual but it really does well.

Ouch... huge orchestra hit notes at a classy placement- they do peak a little, and they aren't that good either.

I think you did a lot of fx later on the song, which is making the song sound messy and off. Especially when you slowed the whole thing down, it sounds really crappy.

OH MY GOD that was extremely hurting my fingers writing as I heard the song. but there you go, what I thought about the song as it went on.

It's a like, keep it up!

EchozAurora responds:

you might need new speakers....
there is no peaking at all in the alarm.. nor the orchestra hits
But yes, good fun.
I think my favorite part is the synth that pans back and forth, reminds me of mega man. And I am a glitch whore, but I do agree that it gets a bit off-beat near the end and kind of throws a couple things off.
...Sadly, this song might not get the attention it deserves... it appears the 0-bombers are having a circle-jerk listening to old PGx9 tracks again.
But oh well, doesn't matter anyway, it'll bounce back.
Thanks for the review, I'll hit ya back sometime.

[Keep Quiet]

oh my god

that's a very lot of disortion and clipping you got there where you placed the humongous kick sounds... I'm sure you could've mastered it a ton more than that.

very sharp sounds all around, the piano has shimmering tones and really much velocity on the notes, actually it's clipping there too.

I didn't like this song, it's just hurting your ears instead of giving them something good, sorry. Master it a bit and cut down on the velocity and enormous bass, and I believe this could be a decent tune

Setu-Firestorm responds:

Strange. You gave it all high ratings considering you didn't like it.

Secondly, this wasn't supposed to be a pleasant piece. Furthermore, I've had no clipping issues with it; I always keep an ear out for that. THat may just be a "your speakers vs. mine" deal.

All in all, it serves its purpose as a disturbing and unsettling ambience, which was its purpose. I hope that by knowing my previous works you understand that I'm not saying this to mask an imperfection -- This piece was created as it was intended.