Same piano volume wildness again. I don't know how or why you're doing this to me.
There's actually some mildly complex and sensible stuff going on in the piano, sounds like you just drew it into the sequencer though, since it's so heavily quantized. Everything that's going on feels pretty random, like why are you switching between completely different drum patterns every fourth bar, that's disorienting.
"Same piano volume wildness again. I don't know how or why you're doing this to me."
Blame the limiter in the master channel, not the playa.
The reason the drums are changing beat all the time is because I had the same obsession with variety that I have today, except today I make sure the variety makes sense and back then I was like VARIETY VARIETY VARIETY.
Piano is more subdued this time. Sweet.
at least that's what I thought until 0:19 when you just brutally increased the volume of it so it sounded something like ONE OF THOSE FUCKING FEVER FANTASIES WHERE YOU HEAR VOICES THAT GET LOUDER AND LOUDER AND YOU JUST FEEL AWFUL BECAUSE YOU HAVE A FUCKING FEVER AND YOU CAN'T SLEEP
I'm done with this.
neat unintentional dorian mode at 2:14 though
Hahaha I love this review. I can imagine you listening to the piano all subdued and you're all content, then the arpeggio comes in and it starts getting higher and higher in volume and in the meantime you put your arms out and you're like "no no NO NO WHERE ARE YOU GOING, YOU WERE FINE BEFORE, GO BACK TO HOW YOU WERE NO NO NO SCREW YOU STEP"
I kinda like the melodies in this track, despite it being so old. They sound pretty cool when I play them on my piano, and I might just record myself playing them with my newfound microphone and make a whole track out of them. I dunno!
"neat unintentional dorian mode at 2:14 though"
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I KNEW EXACTLY WHAT I WAS DOING.
Woah that was such a cool intro. And what's up with the nice drums. The bassline is a bit off at 0:57. God that piano sucks so hard. How did you manage to make such a nice intro and then ruining everything with the piano. Now it's harmonized in fifths what are you doing. The second time around I can hear it would be a decent riff if it was a lot more silent. And the arpeggios that appear in the last part are cool. Still large amounts of overcompression but it's not as bad as last time.
Again, this would be a really cool track if there was a lot less piano.
"Woah that was such a cool intro."
I knowww, at this point in time I realised how awesome choir intros are and I think I might just make another (except not compressed to infinity and back) for my next EPIC-epic song.
"Now it's harmonized in fifths what are you doing."
Echo did that stuff man. Let me harmonise it, he said. I'm Grade 8 music theory, he said.
"Again, this would be a really cool track if there was a lot less piano."
Well, "really cool" for crappy NG techno standards!
Holy shit this is compressed so hard oh my goood how is this even possible everything is sidechaining everything else xp the reverb of the kick rests like a huge fog over the entire mix when it plays
Cool melodies though, you've really got a groove going at 1:34 and the little rising melody before that was really nice. I mean it wouldn't have surprised me to see you do music similar to the stuff that some of the EDM guys from this site ended up making eventually, if you had chosen that route instead of becoming a silly orchestral person :)
"Holy shit this is compressed so hard oh my goood how is this even possible everything is sidechaining everything else xp the reverb of the kick rests like a huge fog over the entire mix when it plays"
THAT'S CALLED PRO MASTERING.
No but seriously it's not my fault. FL Studio's default template has a limiter in the master channel and I never really knew what it does so I made all my music with the limiter on there until Blackhole12 told me to stop it (which was when I made Spacewalk, and that was a massive improvement as I'm sure you noticed). Hence all of that compression. Or maybe it IS my fault for being such a retard.
"if you had chosen that route instead of becoming a silly orchestral person :)"
Thank GOODNESS I'm a silly orchestral person and didn't take that route, or else things would've panned out a lot differently.
You've got the instrumentation down all right. I get what you mean about using the major scale... it doesn't come naturally to me either, all I do is in some variation of a minor scale :v. I'm giving this a kinda high score since it actually accomplishes what it sets out to do which is to establish a christmas feel. Percussion is sensible and stuff and the mixing is pretty good except for the flute being a bit obnoxious maybe. Piano and bells sound awful though
"all I do is in some variation of a minor scale :v."
I KNOW RIGHT. I remember in one of my older songs I said that in one of the sections I did "a switch to a minor key", but looking back it turns out the whole song was in minor anyway.
"flute being a bit obnoxious maybe"
Oh man, reminds me of how much you used to hate my flutes before. Now they're good though. Right? RIGHT? :(
"Piano and bells sound awful though"
This is true.
Scooter-16 is Echo I guess? Anyway, this sounds a lot more like cheery christmas music than a big space explosion. Yeah well I get the idea, which is basically that the song has dynamics. Anyway as you said the melody doesn't make much sense or anything. I honestly don't remember how the songs you made before this sounded at all but this isn't too bad.
it's kinda cute how you describe the song in such detail by the way..
"Scooter-16 is Echo I guess?"
No, Scooter-16 is my alt. I was such a loner back then that the only person I could collaborate with is myself.
Naw just kiddin', of course it's Echo.
"Anyway, this sounds a lot more like cheery christmas music than a big space explosion."
I must've gotten into some weirdass Christmas mood before I made this song then because the next one is most definitely cheery Christmas music.
"Yeah well I get the idea, which is basically that the song has dynamics. Anyway as you said the melody doesn't make much sense or anything. I honestly don't remember how the songs you made before this sounded at all but this isn't too bad."
Yeah, this one's kinda pleasant to the ears, unlike a lot of the old ones. Still doesn't make sense :3.
"it's kinda cute how you describe the song in such detail by the way.."
No it's embarrassing and humiliating. ;_;
Nice, it's groovy. I would note the chord progression but it's the same as the other one I guess? So it's fine. I like that you've started doing those more subtle things like chromatic fills, dorian harmony, etc. The lead is just wonderful. The mix has problems (too much drums and reverb) though.
and noooo don't use my depths of phendrana preset :c
Thanks for all these reviews man you rock.
"Nice, it's groovy. I would note the chord progression but it's the same as the other one I guess?"
That's correct! I wanted to add a few elements from the other one to link them together.
"So it's fine. I like that you've started doing those more subtle things like chromatic fills, dorian harmony, etc."
That's probably thanks to camoshark, who's taken away my mentality that a note out of key is a wrong note, which was an old mentality I had picked up due to many years of classical music theory.
"The lead is just wonderful."
It is, is it not :3.
"The mix has problems (too much drums and reverb) though."
Not sure about the drums, I like it how it is, but definitely too much reverb. The mix is one of the places I rushed a little in.
"and noooo don't use my depths of phendrana preset :c"
I DON'T SEE YOUR NAME ON IT.
Thanks for ANOTHER review man!
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yes, glad you hear it.
The new parts are lovely. My favorite part of the whole thing is 2:55-3:55 and it's mostly because of the brilliant piano work actually. I'd love to have a midi of the piano that happens during that part so I can study your ideas and steal them. I'm impressed by the sax work because I sure as hell couldn't manage to make something coherent when soloing over this chromatic clusterfuck
Whooooooooo-
I have to say, I was almost a bit overly critical of having the real instruments in there, but hey it worked!
If by the piano work you mean the chords, it's kinda just odd chords that I strung together and managed to make coherent in some weird way.
The sax work was a COMPLETE AND UTTER PAIN. The stems are actually something like 6-8 minutes long for the sax and about 4 minutes long for the trumpet. As I said, it took ages to splice and rearrange. Also I'm sure you could totally manage to make something coherent enough out of 6-8 minutes of solos as well. ...I really should have sent over a scale when I asked for some solos.
Totally glad you love it though. I'd be glad to send a midi of the piano chords if that's what you meant. (by the way, thanks for letting me steal an idea of yours for one of the solos, cookie for anyone else who can figure out where it was ;3)
I like the theme and sounds and all, maybe the genre is more video game really, which is apt considering the sawng's background. Good iciness.
There are a couple of things I don't agree with in the song, for example I think the chorusy lead from 0:55 is rather crass and I'm not a big fan of the more-basic-than-sodium-hydroxide I IV I V progression
I could've SWORN I already responded to this. Oh well, thanks for reviewing man, I was hoping you'd review this :3.
"I like the theme and sounds and all, maybe the genre is more video game really, which is apt considering the sawng's background. Good iciness."
Sweet. To be honest I'm not very bothered with the genre, although I just threw it under Drum'n'Bass since it just so happens to have drums and bass. Decibel says that 155 BPM isn't enough for Drum'n'Bass though.
"There are a couple of things I don't agree with in the song, for example I think the chorusy lead from 0:55 is rather crass"
You know it's pretty hard to use super saws without them sounding crude and cheesy, haha. I was out of ideas, so I just fished for a super saw in Omnisphere. It's so much easier choosing sounds in orchestral :c.
"and I'm not a big fan of the more-basic-than-sodium-hydroxide I IV I V progression"
Whoops! Well, you know me, I compose the melody first and then the chords, so it wasn't entirely intentional. Maybe it's better that way for the purposes of this track; kids will appreciate something like sodium hydroxide more than some potassium permanganate or deliquescent anhydrous iron chloride or something.
Thanks again ^_____^.
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