Short DnB track.
That means I should be expecting a diverse track :)
Haha, wow... it's hard to take this song seriously. You've got some sounds here that sound so small! The bass should be ferocious, the drums should be thick, and the arp should grab your attention.
My advice if this is your music creation program's best quality; invest in another program. If you don't want to though, be VERY PICKY with your sample choice.
Keep it easy;
-Zenon
Okay, yeah, I need better bass choice. Anyway, this isn't the best it can do... my first song "Energize" was even better than this. I'm working on a new song now with synths and stuff; I hope it turns out better. I've tried FL Studio, but it looks a bit confusing. I would get more into it, but I don't want to waste the whole demo making crap songs to get used to it. I need a full version. I'll give FL a try again anyway.
I like the title.
Nuclear cycle, eh? Definitely not something I'd ever think of, so props on that :P
The beginning with the drum filters is nice, it's been done before, but the drums feel like their more IDM than anything. I can't feel a rythym at all :(
Build your songs a little faster. Add more things at once instead of slowly filtering things in, because then you'll have to write more parts to your songs, and the more parts you have in your songs the more interesting they'll be, and the more interesting they are, the better the song.
I also just realized how slow this song is. I could make a trance song at this tempo, dude. That ain't right; try making a DnB song at a faster tempo sometime. 165-180 BPM would work nicely.
So yeah, only a few things to fix up:
Pluses:
I like that little saw lead. Catchy; I could see something nice come from that little arpeggio-type melody.
Minuses:
Tempo's too slow.
Drums are too random-sounding. They need to have solid rythymic patterns that the listener can identify with.
And make the songs progress smoothly and focus on getting the most quality you can get out of a track.
Keep it easy bro;
-Zenon
Hey, thnx for the rev at first.
Yeah I know that DnB has to be that tempo, but when I speeded up this song, the breaks got all weird so that's the reason it's like this. I might edit this song and fix the breaks n stuff.
I like the random breaks. I prefer random that sounds cool that "arranged" drums that sound like shit.
The next DnB song will have a faster build.
Great rev, Zenon, thnx.
Dark Forest, eh.
I'm listening to this on my stock laptop speakers so I can't comment on your EQ job... well, the low end part of it.
The song is decent sounding, to say the most. The sounds you're using are kind of weak. Your reece synth is just a detuned saw; no modulation, no distortion, no effects or anything. Your drums are a little high ended, and it's a loop. Consider using your own samples to make your drums; they sound better. The song was decently diverse so no complaints there.
Just focus on making everything sound better. Make sounds that can make people take the song seriously.
Keep it easy;
-Zenon
Hey bud :D
It's nice to know you're still alive and breathing ;) I personally hate remixes of video games, so this review might sound a little biased.
Plus:
I'm a huge FF fan, so of course it sounds a little familiar. But "a little familiar" is all I'm gonna get though... none of the rest of the song seems at all familiar to me. So, now that I haven't heard the original (or can remember it) I can't judge what YOU did... So I'll just pretend this is an original mix :P
I enjoyed the breakdown near the middle of the track, with the cute little 909 drum break down XD Seriously, they sounded so small :D
Minus:
I understand that it's because of what the song used to be, but the song just sounds awkward, you know what I mean? Doesn't really sound correct, especially that little solo section in the breakdown, but I guess there's nothing you can do about that in a song that's screwed up like this.
You've also got some very very... cheesy, shall we say, sounds in here. Maybe if you got some sounds that were a lot more solid and less all cheese, I might have been able to take this song a little more seriously, you know?
Keep it easy bro;
-Zenon
Wow, I am glad you came back to see if I was alive :]
Yeah, things dont sound right in the song.:\ I have listened ot it a million times over-and sometimes it is slightly appeasing. While other times I am like "geez gimme a break, seriously?!"
The breakdown, really should be put into a totally seperate song. It sounded kinda cool going into it-but definately sucked trying to find a decent transition out so I could atleast finish the song. (the transition was another M1D1 segment that hadnt been used from the original up to that point in the song)
Cheese-yeah, kinda went for it being that it was a video game remix. And I used Orion which is prolly agreeably worse of a prog than FL-both of which can be very cheezie.
Thanks for the review, I think you found nearly ever minus I have in the track-but, eh, its my first true video game remix.
Thanks!
Nice name,
Even though I'm a grammar Nazi and I hate to see names not properly punctuated... oh well.
I enjoyed the bassline, set the mood pretty good. It's the thing that you'd remember first in a track.
Plus:
Well... it lives up to it's genre. Very slow, very weird sounding. Has a nice little 90s feel to the bassline.
Minus:
Didn't change it up too much. I'd understand if you didn't change the bassline but I don't understand the reason of not writing an entire piano solo for the iano. The bass is the catchy part, not the piano. I'm an ambient composer myself, so don't say that's what ambient is all about; make the song interesting.
The drums seemed strangely off. There was parts in the song where... everything seemed off. But, my biggest problem was with the hats. You should have configured the speed on the delay so that it fit the track better, instead of just having a random delay on it.
It was a nice enjoyable piece though. Seeing how you like ambient music, you should go and review my song called "Peace Brings Pain". Y'know, return the favor ;)
Keep it easy;
-Zenon
thx for the review, ill check your stuff out. theres actually no delay on the hats at all, just reverse and some eq shift, i was just bascially writing a loop as a background for some flash or something someone might find useful, so i was going for something simple, short and could loop very easily, hence no solo or anything. i left the hats off cause i wanted it to be slightly unsettling. on its own it seems odd but when used as a soundtrack to something visual it has an awesome effect, try it out sometime:-)
Aqua indeed.
I get a very nice vibe from the introduction. I hope the rest of the song doesn't give me too much to critique.
Plus:
Dance? Hell yes this is dance music. Solid groove, and it's slow enough so you can actually dance to it. The pads and everything are actually at a nice volume.
I enjoyed the diversity in this track, seeing as you took the effort for things to sound at least a LITTLE different than the rest of the song.
Minus:
It's too generic. Bass on the offbeat, soft pad in the background, hard lead complementing the sine/square melody... nothing new here. It sounds nice, but you're not really going to grab the attention of anyone with this, I'm sad to say. Try listening to some other genres (metal, Drum 'n Bass, breakbeat, etc) and try to get an idea of what you could do in the dance genre to make it different.
The drums are also too loud for a mix like this. The song is soft with a minimal melody, and the drums are pounding. I guess the contrast would be called "nice" by other people, but even if everyone did like the way-too-loud drums, they aren't diverse. There are no breaks that contribute to the song or anything; just a steady beat. Try changing that in the future :)
Other than that, good job. You should go and review my newest track, "Peace Brings Pain". I think it'd only be returning the favor, seeing how I wrote you a nice helpful review.
Keep it easy;
-Zenon
Thanks buddy.
Well then
let's celebrate the naming of your first track with a review, eh? :)
Plus:
Basic dance beat with a good backgroud sound. A little overdone by other artists, but still gets the point across.
You eventually ended up changing that arp after a while so it became a bunch of random chords. Maybe have not been the best change in the history of music (same with that lead) but it was progression anyways.
Minus:
Overall song arrangement. Songs are usually written in introduction -> Melody and/or verse1 ->Melody and/or verse1 -> Verse 2 and/or break and it keeps going like this until we go to the -> outro. This makes the song feel very diverse, and professional. Listen a little bit to more profound artists that do this type of genre, to get a sense of how they arrange it.
Also, your compression. In fact, there was no compression. Slap a soft clipper on the master effects just so you can keep the levels down a bit, and remember: Louder is not always better! Work to making the track quieter than usual. If you want something to stand out, turn down the other instruments. Don't turn that particular one up really high. Don't be afraid to compress things that have a tendency to peak out (i.e. Kicks, snares, leads).
Keep it up. Now, if you could be a gentleman and review my song called "Peace Brings Pain", I'd really appreciate it :)
Keep it easy;
-Zenon
thx for the review, and thx for the advice!
Delicious.
Like a silver platter filled with greasy deformities like pizza and fries accompanied by the subtleties of the beauty of wine and a tenderly cooked roast, this song is quite good tasting.
I've been eating all day. And I think taking a listen to some "pinner" crunchy sounding synths is just what I wanted :)
Word of advice though; you had a nice little filter in the beginning that brought a sense of bass into the mix... but after the introduction, the bass seemed to have lost it's dynamics in the mix? Maybe you actually need to make a bass synth instead of just using a sine wave, you lazy ass, haha.
See you around; and keep this shit up.
-Zenon
holy shit mate! I can't believe you're reviewing stuff!
I can't wait till i can make something decent and something i'm proud of though..........
All my lolz
R Belung 2 U.
-Zenon
I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED UR LOLZ
THANKSES A LOT
You killed my expectations.
I was expecting an awesome build-up and then have it satisfied with a thick, dirty, crunchy reese.
Well, that reese turned out to be a pussy.
Where the fuck is the distortion!?
Bah; just get a thicker sound next time. Everything else is fine. Good drum work.
-Zenon
I personally would have worked on the bass a little more, but I blame Geier and his stupid ways of comparing a reese to random items that DOES NOT HELP AT ALL. I was just really fed up with working on it so I finished. Thanks, and MSN me for the 160kbps version.
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