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[Sonic CD -Quartz quadrant GF-]

Sonic :)

I remember the good ol' days of Sonic. I always considered making a few remixes myself, but I just never got to it.

To the song.

Very nice, I like the overall mastering, since thats almost all you can comment on in a remix XD The only things I like to hear more of is a kick. Its a little thus in the backround, when you could get rid of all the trble and make it a 'boom'. That'd be sexy.

Also, as good as it sounds, add more FX to your instruments. They all sound very bland, you know?

Good work, keep up the good work :)

-zenon

[RGH: Climate Storm(Remix)]

Hey buddy!

I don't know if you heard or not, but I'm a huge ban right now...(30 day ban on BBS. I have 8 days left, though) so I thought it'd be nice if I left you a review after I read your advertisement :)

Very nice guitar sounds. The mix with the guitar and the hi-res pads sounds great. Very desert-like. I am waiting for the 'techno' to break in.

I like the break in, really. The bassline holds the low frequencies and the drums are heard in the hi freq. Even though I would have liked to hear less bass in the bass, and more in a solid kick that could add to the groove.

When the drums come in, the hi hats by themselves are just fine. But I don't like the progression you did with them after. You should have just had a huge snare/bass break at the 8 bar mark, and bam. You've got a god solid groove goin' from then on in.

The rest of the song is good and well balanced... but almost too well mastered. I hear no dominant frequency, and in this song, I'd like to hear less bass, like I said already, more kick, and more melody! The melody is just sitting in the backround like a bullied kid who doesn't have the mental ability to talk to other kids. It needs to stand out and be heard!

Good song, but above are just my personal comments. Lets judge by the genre now. To the scores!

Originality is a 7, because of the whole being techno, and everything you have done in this song, has already been done once already by at least one artist. But, I think the thing that makes this song unique is the fact that you had some nice little solos in the song somewhere... very nice. But the other stuff was just... techno. With a guitar, of course.

Very diverse track. I give it an 8, because of the nice melody changes, along with the solos that I already talked about. The thing that took away from the diversity the most was the percussion for the most part. Sure, you changed it quite a bit I hear, but you have that change going for a lotta bars. I'd rather hear a steady drum beat with a lot of breaks than a repeating drum beat that changes into another one every once and a while.

Clarity is a 9. I already went over the whole melody not being loud enough thing.

Effort is a 10, you deserve no less. A diver, well mastered track with a guitar. Can't get more effort than that.

Overall, an amazing 9. Its catchy, to say the LEAST. Great work man, I am seriously impressed :)

Keep it up!

-zenon

RyeGuyHead responds:

"Almost too well mastered"...haha
I wanted everything to be heard equally, since this song was so heavily layered.
A 7 for originallity, look at the song i remixed for this and welll see if you give me a 7. Climate Siren is what its called.

If you want something purely original, go to The Tribe Is Among Us

[|| TranceMasta ||]

Hey, Housemasta.

Just decided to drop off some helpful critism.

This song seems unsteady... you've got, quite honestly, an awkward arrangment of synths. Saw melody, seriously bassy kick, noise hi hats, and... I dunno, soft strings (I guess that'd be what you'd call em XD). Not saying that the song is bad, I like the general idea of it. But its the arrangement and the choice of synths that bugged me.

Try to work on making more of a 'progression' feel. When something new in the drum line breaks in, make sure that theres a huge drum break, and that theres a drum line that fullfills that need for power that you had goin' on. Same goes for synths.

That one arping synth you have going in the backround is simply following one of the melodies that you already have going on one synth... maybe make melodic, instead of following note for note? That might add to the 'trance' feel.

In the beginning, and throughout the song, when you had fade ins/outs, there was some clipping. That leads me to believe that you didn't compress this? :( If you did, then you must have done a real quick job or something :P Spend more time on mastering.

Good work though, just need to work out the kinks and soon it'll be a shiny piece of metal that everyone will want to buy at the local Co-op or Canadian Tire XD

Aye, but all above is all nice comments and stuff. More of a personal review. Lets get a little harsher, and look over the scores... please don't take any of this personally. I'm just trying to make your music that much more enjoyable :)

Originality sits at a low 4, because of the arping filtering out and in synths, 4 kick, and the offbeat hats. The FL samples really didn't help to your cause of being original, either. Original because of the noise hats... don't hear those too much anymore, and the stuttery arrangment. That arrangement wasn't nessecarily enjoyable, but it was original none the less.

Diversity has walked over to 6, because even though have many breaks, you have things following each other. It all revolves around those 5 or 6 notes you used. That soft string riff doesn't seem to change either.

Clarity is 7, because the song wasn't distorting all the time. Its not an 8+ because of the filter resonance being a little high. The synths aren't muddled though, so thats nice. But you have this snare break happen a few times in the song, which really kind of bugs me. You make it go down one or two octaves, makig it kind of hard to hear?

Effort is an 8 because of the non-solid arrangment job.

Overall is a 7. Well, its not something I'd wanna listen to, me being a techno-junkie and all that, and I am getting sick of hearing the FL preset samples in music, even if it is only one or two samples, it seems like those samples slap me in the face and scream at me 'look, im a horrible sample and I'm ruining a good song...' lol.

So, clean up your mastering, arrangment, and more melodics would be just snazzy.

Keep it up!

-zenon

HouseMasta responds:

originality should be at 10 since this song has never been done before and i did the whole song myself with NO FL presets so that ones off. i used a lot of z3ta instruments that completely hogged my CPU so it may have clipping simply because of the usage issue.

clarity i agree with your 7, i couldve mastered a bit better, but i was lazy.

diversity, it has a different trance feel to it, so id say an 8 or 9 instead of your 6.

effort, 8 i could agree i guess.

overall, im sorry if i dissappointed you but this song was for my own enjoyment and i loved the way it sounded.

[*+ *...Frozen...*+ *]

Beautiful.

Since i have a popsicle in my hand and i can only type with one right nw cause of that, I won't avtually go into a hardcore review right now. I'll just say that this is top notch, pfrofessional stuff right here.

Kick ass stuff. You've got my download. You can lick my popsicle, if you want, too. :P

-zenon-

DarKsidE555 responds:

Ewww, no popsicle for me. >:(

Thanks for the download man and the kind review! \m/

[-=LJC=- She fed me the lotus]

Aw, I didn't get first review?

Damn Immune, always ahead of me. I'll have his head soon though...

*Ba dum bum pish!*

Very slow and groovy track, though. I always need my does of glitch. Or else I'l die if I don't get it :(

When you use those womans voices (thats what it sounds like, LOL) I was like "I am tripping out so much I am going to commit suicide." So I did, and I went to heaven, and then this review got earased and I was like "HEY WTF >:O11!!1111!!!!!1" Then I sat down and started to write this review.

BTW, this music pwns. And you know it. I've got a new ambient track coming soon, and this song is just the inspiration I need to finish it sometime :D Its a sine wave ambient track with glitch and sliced dirty drums. Very Kingbastard and your style like :D:D:D:D

Yeah. You pwn. Your music rapes me.

Great work, fewl!

-zenon

PS: lol.

LJCoffee responds:

wow.

just...

wow.

[Q-Bix: Windy mist]

Tis trance, alright.

Could be much better executed, though. I can hear a melody just fine, but the song lacks progression. Even though there are CLEAR breaks in and out, you need to have a severe change to tell the listener, HEY, IM BREAKING DOWN. PUT YO' HANDS IN THE AIR!
This song just has the feel of constant power through the song, and it also has too MANY unclear breaks. Can't we all just be happy with a steady beat going through the song, only stopping once for extreme drama?

You did a good job, you just need to work on arrangment :)

-zenon-

bjoaierjbioaerjgoerj responds:

thanx.. im still practising on the arrangment parts if my songs.. still thanx. check out my other stuff! i think you'll like them!

[Stereotype]

OMG ownage.

Seriously, why did you trash this? Its a good ol' piece of sterotypical grindcore :D

BTW, I used it in a shitty flash and it actually passed xD

-zenon-

[Rise of the Machines {Loop}]

Lets mame this song

and give it new legs so people can look at it and say 'hey, its a normal guy. Not a gimp'.

I am, of course, refering to the FL samples. Considering how long it has been since you submitted something to this account, I though you would have gotten some good royality free ones by now. Go get yourself z3ta+, Vanguard, and go to google.com and put in 'breakbeat paradise' and click on the first link that comes up. That site should help you a lot with samples.

To the song, and I'll try not to rip on the samples too much.

The hi hats are nice and steady in the beginning, which is nice, but I saw no point to do that unnesscary break you had (with the un FXed hit). You stopped the hi hat, got rid of the groove you had going, and then broke it down and started something else in the song that almost sounded completely different and unwanted, when you could have done it much MUCH smoother. Getting rid of that 4 beat break would be an awesome start, and if you keep that hit, add some delay, reverb, and EQ it so it doesn't sound like your using an FL preset... come on, you couldhave tried there :(

My ears are very VERY sensitive, due to several serious ear infections and playing drums for 9 years. The panning in this song pains me to listen to. Panning is good... in small doses. Don't have everything panning at once, make the LOUDER things stay in the mid-pan section, and quieter thigs you can pan with no penalty.

When you broke in the song after the break, you had this weird 'warble' sound'. I don't know, but it doesn't fit the 'industrial' feel. Its liquid, and im expecting things that sound like metal, not water.

I'm noticing that you used (at the beginning) a 3Xosc preset. It doesn't really fit the feel... it would have worked better if you made a 3Xosc yourself. Try not to use their presets, screw around with the 3X0sc and look at the projects under 'cool stuff'. That will teach you more than enough on how to use the 3Xosc. A distorted 303 would work nicely, I think.

Lets go over the scores...

Originality is a 4. Honest to god, I wouldn't mind if you had FL presets in it (im serious) but the fact that just used the FL presets, and you put no FX on them or edited them whatsoever bugged the hell out of me. At LEAST do that!

Diversity sits at 7, because the loop is a 2 parted song, and well, its a loop. You could have put in the effort to make it at LEAST 1 minute long.

Clarity is 9 because of the panning. Nuff' said.

Effort sits at 4. Why? See what I said about diversity and originality.

Overall is a 6. The composition is decent, but the song itself could have been arranged MUCH more solidly.
Think of it this way: Don't stop editing a song until you LOVE what you hear. Don't listen to something in the song that is slightly wrong and say 'hah, they won't notice'. No, fix it. Make sure the song is completely flawless in everyway until you find yourself lsitening to your own music.

-zenon-

PS: If I sound harsh, well, sorry. I just wrote a truthful review, no attacks on you personally whatsoever.

itsameyayo responds:

Don't worry about it, I need all the help I can get. I'm still working at this anyways, and haven't had the time to do certain stuff. There's stuff I don't hear, so don't think I'm trying to give people crap.

Thanks

-SuperDrummer146

[WC > Going Home]

I LOVE KINGBASTARD!

Seriously! He and LJCoffee have been the only people on this site that have truly inspired me... seriously, you captured the entire feel of his tracks with the sine wave pads/pulses and the dirty lowtuned loop.

Ways to make it sound better, though: The drums were great... for the beginning. I don't like to hear too much of that kind of low tuned drums, but its nice to set the mood. It got my head bobbin' slowly, but after a while it seems to just lsoe the groove. Try not to add that much glitchy-like diversity to them, since that kind of gets rid of the slow groovy feel. Maybe, you could bust into a REALY drumset groove... get some nice samples, and throw in a ride/snare/kick drum pattern that follows the deep drum line.. yeah, that'd be sexy.

No real somplaints, other than the percussion...

Keep that shit up, man!

-zenon-

[WC > Slaughter, Destroy]

Industrial?

Thats a hell of a change of pace! :)

The plink synth is nice and all, but you have this... 'sound' in the backround that is ruining my mood :( I lost my hard on.

Your gonna pay for that.

It'd be nice if those sounds were melodic or something. Just so they could actually help to the structure of the song, instead of just filling up backround noise.

The drum percs were nice, and when the drums and dirty synth broke in, do you know what I thought to myself?

'OMGTHIS IZ 2 LOWD!1WWLKDWA12~!!!!@!@@!!'

My proceeded to explode, for it could be much more controlled.

Good work, but not really my taste, i prefer more of a controlled, slower, and less ambient form of industrial.

I'm not gonna bother going through the scores this time. You can decifer them yourself :)

-zenon-