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[-586rick- Rough and tumble]

Good Job; Very repeatitive

Nice little song you got here. The synthesizers were quite good and very smooth. Nice drums, you could have a go with other samples rather than having the fl presets. They are very recognizable. That's what brought done the originality score down. Good melodies you have there. They may not be yours because you remake video game songs. So I'm just guessing that you did SOME of the melody work. And one last thing, WAY repetitive. It needs more variety. You got great potential, but you just need to make some more original things when you remake a song. Good job mate. Keep up the good work!

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Electrick

586rick responds:

Thanks for the review, i'll try my best next time.

[<+R+> Save you]

Awesome work; Needs more melodies

Great track! The beat was slick, but not so original. You need more drums. All you have that I can hear is a Kick, Clap, and a Hihat. It got boring. But it was still very slick. I love her voice :) She's a natual. Good lyrics. Did you make them yourself? This is particulary a trance song. It's too airey for techno. One of the synths that was playing seemed a bit off. Like the pitch I beleive. I love that pad, very smooth and calming. It's been repeating the same chords over and over again throughout the song. That got kind of boring. This is still a great song! Keep up the great work!

-Check out my stuff sometime!
Electrick

Rawrthaas responds:

Yum. Constructive critcism :P

I was waiting for it, and I wanted it.
It helps a lot :D

Teh vocals are by Kate Lesing, and they are open domain.. you can get a website called vipzone. They were released for that site.

[_-={A Warm Storm in Avalon}=-_]

Very Nice; Was a bit distorted at the end.

This is an excellent piece MaestroRage! You used a variety of strings and a bit of synths. The percussion was a bit soft, you should put more volume for it. The plucked strings were touching, a bit repeatitive, but very well done. Needs more reverb, it sounded a bit plain. Great choir, but when they hit the high notes, it became a little distorted. That's a no biggie. People wouldn't recognize it, but I did. (I using some really good headphones). The ending was great! But when the tom did a double hit, there were some distortion so that's what brought done the clariety level. Overall, you did a neat job MaestroRage! I would love to hear up coming pieces! Keep up the great work!

Electrick

MaestroRage responds:

I need to get me some REALLY good headphones. And some slick speakers. Need to get my mixing up to another level!

If I added more reverb to the strings, they would become muddled. I have tried, so hard :'(. It was simply not happening at my skill level.

I also don't hear any distortion, so thats really interesting. I should get somebody with some sweet headphones/speakers to listen to my tunes before I put them up here. Thanks for the heads up on that department.

Thank you for the review Electrik! I'm glad you liked it! There WAS some distortion at the end with those toms weren't there? I just caught that myself.

[Compressed Fusion]

Cool; Needs less distortion on bass.

Cool song. It has sort of a dark/evil feeling to it. However, it did repeat a lot. The second bass that comes in was WAY to distorted. In Drum N Bass, things dont necessarily need to be: Phat Basses, Heavy synths, and all those kind of things. I could see this being an Ambient Drum N bass, but you need less distortion, and more varity on the drums. The drum preset you used was a bit plain. Try finding some other loops in google. Im not sure where yet, but I bet you can find wave files of it. Good job on this song dude, keep up the good work.

Electrick

blackduckie responds:

I'm glad to hear that you thought it had a dark and evil feeling; that's the sort of thing I was getting at in making the piece. Right now I'm working on something to do with pie, butit isn't really coming out that well. After that I think I'll actually start TRYING on my tracks. Anyway, I'm glad you liked the music and I'll have a look on google for more drumloops to utilise. Thanks for the review, and I'll try to be less repetitive in my work.
ND
(In case you were wondering, ND stands for NuclearDuckie, which would have been my username had I thought of it at the time.)

[Scorched Velocity]

Neat; Could use some more synths

Neat song. The intro was impressively done. But I was expecting a little longer intro, I guess it's just me. Basses were annoying, it repeated a lot. It was really loud, louder than it needs to be. The drums were ok, a bit soft, but no biggie. Also, it needs some more synths! And that synth that plays sometimes was off key. And, you need more synths than just the bass and synth. Neat job on this song. But it could use more diversity.

Electrick

blackduckie responds:

Thanks for the review. This track didn't really come out the way I intended it to, but I still think it's all right. I've got another piece coming up; I don't know whether you would look on it as better or worse. This one annoys me a bit in that it doesn't loop very well. I guess I'll just get better as I go along.
Thanks again for the review.
ND

[i2 - Show No Fear]

Not Bad; But a bit annoying.

Not a bad song. A bit catchy. A lot of it was really repeatitive. Especially the drums and the bass. Change it up a little bit, and add some percussions. (Example, some more C-hihats, a little toms, etc.) The voice was REALLY annoying in the beginning. That's what brought down the overall score. This has great potential, but it needs to become less repeatitive. Still, good job, and keep up the good work.

Electrick
PS - I am a tough reviewer, so dont expect a lot of high scores :)

i2abbitz responds:

Yea, the vocals did get annoying.. i made this in about 45 minutes. and was just excited to have something to post again. :)
thanks for the review!