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Lawl

I knew something was wrong when you said "hiphop oldskool". I was liek "wat teh fukz lol", then I listened to it.

Oh you trickster, you :)

-Zenon

StereoTactik responds:

What, "Toast With Jam." didn't tip you off?
LOL

Ignore the last person.

While it does make the track sound horrible when two low frequencies are played at the same time (it causes the bass to "warble", and it makes said bass indistinguishable to other said bass), it doesn't make the track distort.

What does make the track distort however, is failing to compress your song.

Let's say that your track is like a glass. It starts out empty, and you add instruments and different elements to the track (essentially filling the glass). But let's say you add too much, and it's all too loud. Well then you've filled the glass too much and it's spilling everywhere (also known as "distortion"). So, how do you fix this?

Turn what you want to be quiet down, and what you want to be "loud" at mid-volume. Turn things up and down accordingly, but try not to max out the volume/EQ of anything.

So, there. We've got a nicely EQed track, and there's no liquid outside of the glass. But, on a different system, this would still overflow if you turned it up! Do you know why?

There's no lid on the glass. And when there's no lid, sometimes the liquid will stay in, but shake it too much and it'll all flood out. Something we don't want. So, put the "lid" on the "glass" by individually compressing the things that need to be compressed (the loud things). You can do this by putting a compressor on every loud instrument, and fiddling with the highs and lows of that particular instrument (while putting a limiter on it, of course) using the Multiband compressor.

So, keep the lid on that glass, mmk? Keep this up man, and I'm sure in another week or two's time, I'll be asking YOU for advice :)

Keep it easy bro;

-Zenon

boney-man responds:

Wow, thanks for the nice, long review. I'll have to remember all this advice you're throwing at me :D

I will say I'm getting better at DnB, but I won't say I'm good at it. I'm ok.

Thanks for the review!

Huh.

I'm personally a hardcore/gabber fan, so I actually enjoyed this. The only thing I hated about it was that in the beginning in you had a great triplet build-up, and I expected the entire song to keep that same feel. But you switched it to normal 4/4 time for the rest of the song, and I was really disappointed in that.

I know you did this for a LOL CONTEST moment, so I can't drill you for that though.

Keep it easy buddy;

-Zenon

PS: Goa LOSDLSDASDFLADSO

cornandbeans responds:

that was swing not triplet :P
or are you talking about the vox?

lol my brain is so fried right now so it'll probably hit me later

thanks for the review ; D
goa is on the way lol... you know long i spend on tracks :P

I'll be honest with you

I'd never find a use for these sounds. But I can appreciate the effort you put into MAKING these sounds, nonetheless.

Awesome stuff man. Actually sounds like rain 'n shit.

Keep it easy;

-Zenon

Rig responds:

I wouldn't have any use for this thing either. But darnit, it was fun to make. Thanks for the support!

And thank YOU, NG, for the 8 mb limit. :-)

God damn!

That crunching sounds fucking gross! Awesome!

Keep this up!

-Zenon

Rig responds:

It's amazing what a silly computer mic can do, eh? Thanks!

Jesus Christ.

In a small loop,you've managed to use ever single of Pendulum's cliches. Many lols were spread around the toast after listening to this.

Keep it easy;

-Zenon

PS: I'm done eating my chicken now :(

StereoTactik responds:

mm tasty

Nifty.

I swear to God you've been listening to too much Benassi or something. Got my head bobbin', at least. Some awesome drum roll breaks n' shit in there.

Keep it easy;

-Zenon

PS: IM EATIN' CHIKEN

StereoTactik responds:

Not Benassi, actually. Spor. He's been making some experimental Breaks stuff lately, and it really inspired me.

CAN I HAS CHIKEN 2OO?

<3 loops.

For seriously though. They are the easiest to review; here's a tip for a loop though; fill them FULL. That way, people can see your true skills. Imagine a loop as a short song, but without any real arrangement. So, do your best to make them as interesting and diverse as possible.

The cello melody was alright. It was nothing that I'd be able to remember and hum later on, so try to keep your melodies nice and short so people can remember them. As for the drums, I liked the filtered Amen break... but thatw as it. There was no real slicing done with the Amen, and you didn't add your own drums.

You see, the amen is there to add that "sick fill" feel to your drums. Amen drums in good drum n bass tracks usually have no bass, and they are extremely complicated. But, when you add your own drums on top of them (which are EQed to be thick and bassy) it adds that drum n bass "boom-chik-ka-boom-chik-ka-chika-chik a".

You're getting there :)

Keep it easy;

-Zenon

boney-man responds:

LOL out of all my songs to give a nice long review to, this one. You HAVE to see my new song Cyborg. It's my best DNB so far.

Thanks for the review!
(Hopefully you'll check out Cyborg)

Fuckin' weird.

I hate to say this, but it's not really unique. In fact, it's quite far from that :( If you wanna do something unique, you add new elements to the track, not change the arrangement of the track. Actually, scratch that. If you wanna make something unique, don't make trance :P The genre's been done to shit, and there's nothing new to add anymore...

I suppose that you're trying to mislead the crowd that this is a small part of a song that is 1 million minutes long with the fade in and the fade out. Personally I just think that means that you were too lazy to make a shorter version.

The song was very well EQed and the compression was great. No real complaints there.

The melody wasn't something you could whistle, and to me, that's what a melody should be. Something you can remember and whistle to while you work. And if you can't have that kind of melody (like you've got here), you need a singer. At least try to vocode your own voice or something. There was a few notes during the end of the melody just sounded weird! It was in the right scale and everything but it just... didn't sound right. I dunno. I don't wanna count it out and tell you which 8th note it was in the 4th measure, so I guess I'm gonna have to let it slide with you this time ;)

The drums and bass were so ridiculously boring, and this coming from a drum 'n bass artist. Tsk tsk, sir. You had breaks in all the right places with the drums, but they weren't NEW breaks. They weren't the kind of break that robots dance to and then when that break omes they go "holy shit that was awesome I wanna listen to that ONE part of the song a million times over and make a new fuckin' dance move to that ONE part". You've gotta have some awesome shit like that with your drum work. As for the bassline, I really feel like tapping your nose and calling you a bad dog >:( Offbeat? Dude. Even the synth you used was cliche.

Gah. It's a good song, but it pisses me straight off when it sounds exactly like something I'd hear if I turned on a trance station. You have nothing in this song that says "hey, I'm cornandbeans! You can tell because of that one thing that I do in nearly every one of my songs and it sounds fucking sweet!".

Oh well man. Good work. Keep it easy;

-Zenon

PS: Try to make some Goa sometime, and I'll be sure to write you another long review if you do :D I remember one time you said you liked Goa, so why not try to make some?

cornandbeans responds:

well you see
in happy hardcore it would sound really weird if I tried to pull of some kind of noisia break... and the bassline is really thick so even if I tried one of those4/4 based goa/trance basslines it would muddy up the mix...

i mean if I was doing dnb that would be perfectly cool but since I'm making happy hardcore I kinda have to keep it simple and stupid and focus more on the sound of the sample and the melody :P

took me like 2 hours to make the drums, dead serious.

I see where you're coming from, and those are some of the most prominent complaints about this genre... Happy hardcore really isn't a highly technical genre, but whatever :P

Thanks for the review man, and I'm working on a goa song as we speak :D

Wait, what?

Greeksta making trance? When you said you just made your first trance song, I had to jump over here as fast as I could to see what the hell's goin' on :O

My first issue is the beginning filter. Your synth has low frequencies in it (50 Hz-250 Hz) and you probably have the resonance (Q) up real high on it. You might wanna... you know... zap the bass out of that.

The song seems a little loud. Make sure that you 1: Have everything probably EQed and compressed so it doesn't clip and 2: make sure that the things you want to be loud are a little over "medium-volume" and the things you want to be quiet are dead quiet. The magic of making good music is not what you hear up-front; it's what's hidden behind. Trust me on this.

So, for future reference, keep everything clean sounding and at a good volume, and don't be afraid to add a lot of synths! But if they're all loud... your song's not gonna be that good. So, just be moderate about everything, eh?

Keep it easy;

-Zenon

Greeksta-69 responds:

You know if you put it that way it all actually makes perfect sence to me 0_0
My problem = I make everythign too damn loud lol
Thanks for the review!
Im going to start working on the next track soon and its gonna own this one !

Greeksta

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