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[[herd] Techno Haven]

Hmmm

-After listening to this several times it seemed to be just a rather awkward song. It has a high pitched melody with plenty of bass. Sounds great on paper and it would be great with just that but I was rather confused why you used a dark deep sounding synth with it. Personally I would rather like deep undertones instead. Less abrasive sounding and can mesh really well.

-Review Request Club

Herdunculus responds:

I can see what you mean. I will take this advice with me on my next song. Hopefully it will sound better to you =D

[LB - Broken]

Broken

-The song build accurately portrays how the song played out. Having a melody that broke down into dissaray just to pick itself back up and become better than it was before.

-The piano playing was spectacular and picked everything up. It definitely felt like the defining instrument. It wasn't used much but it was used in the right places(picking up violin solo, beginning, and ending).

-I'm sorry I can't really elaborate more but i'm sort of in the broken stage of my life and it's carrying over towards my reviewing :(

-Review Request Club

Lublub194 responds:

Why thank you for these kind words. I appreciate them.

It's interesting you say that you yourself are in a broken stage. I think we always are, and we have to hold the parts that we want the most together. We can never have it all.

Anyways, I'm glad you liked this. Thanks for the review :D

[AF - Forever (Original)]

Review

-I will have to hand it to you. The sound quality in really good and the mastering time you took really shows. There aren't any rough edges that I can pick out and the sound flowed smoothly throughout.

-It just honestly never was able to get into that full trancy melody that makes you really feel like your in a trance. The intro started out great and you ended it the song nicely but the whole of the song just seemed rather empty. There wasn't enough bass hits or snares to keep a consistent beat leaving the melody to just be too free flowing most of the song.

-Review Request Club

[The War Hawks]

Review

-I loved the simplicity of the track in the beginning. Just letting the basic melody repeat a couple of times to get you into things.

-At 1:08 it changed a little but it made it seem darker and deeper. Followed up by the increase in speed about fourty seconds later. It really helped get you out of the monotone beat that you started to get into.

-The drums were overused in my opinion. Just way too much percussion compared to the guitars being used. Especially towards the end of the song. You can keep the drum solo if you had less drums being used in the entire whole of the song.

-Review Request Club

MixyRecords responds:

Sorry, I normally try to reply right away but I didn't notice the reviews..
I greatly appreciate the feedback. As I said I'm going to back and remix the song. I will definitely subdue the drum parts toward the end. I see what you are talking about. I will send you the updated version once I'm done (should be soon).

[[SxHx] N'Thisisex (NG CUT2)]

This is sex!

-This sounds awfully familiar to me. I've either reviewed an earlier version of this or the lyrics have been used somewhere else. Seeing as this is the second version of this song i'm hoping it's the first. I'm honestly too lazy to trudge through my reviews to find out though.

-Well this was actually really good. It thouroughly kept me interested. Even though it still seems a bit repetitive it changes pace and has enough breaks in the melody to keep it interesting and would work great in a club. The way you ended it was by far the best part with the reverberating vocal audio. Just was an interesting tid-bit to send it off with.

-Review Request Club

shesmackshard responds:

Didnt steal noffin lol thanks bro!

[Stargenx - Summer Sun]

Well

-Well it's relaxing but that's really all it has going for it. It's just way too simplistic in nature which is probably what you were going for but it doesn't keep my attention at all. It just progressed way too slow for me to get interested in it which made me not want to listen to it more than once.

-Slow songs are great for certain occasions but they need to have something that just grasps you and pulls you in for the long relaxing ride. You waited way too long to introduce the high pitched melody that was at about 2:40. If it was earlier in the song and progressed from there it would of been better.

-Review Request Club

Stargenx responds:

Thank you for the review! I know it's a bit slow. :(
It was originally meant to have words, but I never got around to doing them.

[There's Still Hope Left (]

I suppose I should review this

-Well if you look at the bright side of things the fact that you have so many (WIP)s just means that eventually you will have a whole lot of finished songs when just the right moment of musical realization comes to you. I find myself doing this same exact thing with most of the random chores or personal objectives I have. As long as you are making some sort of progress and not letting everything sit around and collect dust basically is what i'm trying to get across.

-It was very upbeat and spontaneous for a classical type of song. Not drab and slow like a lot of these random classical reincarnations that you see being created by people nowadays. Just the fact that it was faster paced really intrigued me and made me want to just keep listening to this over and over(faster songs seem to really be what I listen to most of the time). It was very crisp and clean sounding without clipping the sounds off from the instuments. Great choice of intro music.

-Ultimately what made the song as it is now was how you structured it though. Having the beginning come in slowly with the cymbals followed by the piano was pure genius. Just waiting to introduce the drums until the song progressed. It just had a completely continuous flow that just kept getting stronger and stronger. Even though you may think that the transition at 0:44 was lazy the drop off of sound allowed for a resurgence of the piano combined with bass hits. Even after that the volume increased and the melody became even more powerful that it was before. It did end quite abruptly though. A subtle letdown seemed to be in order for this.

-Even though I liked how the drums were first introduced and the additional resurgence of them after the first big transition I just felt they were stale and repetitive otherwise. While you had variation in them in the beginning they quickly became stagnant and continued to rinse and repeat the same pattern over and over. This being said they could use some work and be varied some.

-Overall you've done a good job with nurturing this baby of yours but it will take some time and effort before it can truly blossom into something more.

Step responds:

Hey, thanks for the awesome and big review :D.

"Well if you look at the bright side of things the fact that you have so many (WIP)s just means that eventually you will have a whole lot of finished songs when just the right moment of musical realization comes to you."

Heh, well I have loads of different WiP's not because I don't know how to continue them. I can easily spend a completely music-focused day and get every single idea I have (Against The Clock, Battle Theme, New Light, this, and many others I have waiting for me to finish them) with ease, but the problem is I don't have the time. I only make these WiP's so that the musical idea doesn't get locked in my head, since I'll end up forgetting it.

"I find myself doing this same exact thing with most of the random chores or personal objectives I have. As long as you are making some sort of progress and not letting everything sit around and collect dust basically is what i'm trying to get across."

Yeah, I agree with you on that.

"It was very upbeat and spontaneous for a classical type of song. Not drab and slow like a lot of these random classical reincarnations that you see being created by people nowadays."

I really really like Classical songs, although those songs like that don't really interest me either. I usually like the type of songs that Danman87 makes, especially Morning Adventure, Heart of the Winter and With Gun & Crucifix.

"Just the fact that it was faster paced really intrigued me and made me want to just keep listening to this over and over(faster songs seem to really be what I listen to most of the time)."

Same here xD. It's probably why I don't like making ambient :D.

"It was very crisp and clean sounding without clipping the sounds off from the instuments. Great choice of intro music."

Well I still have to admit that the EQing job I did here is terrible, although I'll fix that when this is finished.

"Ultimately what made the song as it is now was how you structured it though. Having the beginning come in slowly with the cymbals followed by the piano was pure genius. Just waiting to introduce the drums until the song progressed. It just had a completely continuous flow that just kept getting stronger and stronger."

That's exactly what I was aiming for :D.

"Even though you may think that the transition at 0:44 was lazy the drop off of sound allowed for a resurgence of the piano combined with bass hits. Even after that the volume increased and the melody became even more powerful that it was before."

Well OK, glad the transition over there is OK for you :). I suppose lazy sometimes works out xD.

"It did end quite abruptly though. A subtle letdown seemed to be in order for this."

It only ends like that because there's more to go :P.

"Even though I liked how the drums were first introduced and the additional resurgence of them after the first big transition I just felt they were stale and repetitive otherwise."

You're right, I'm definitely going to redo them.

"While you had variation in them in the beginning they quickly became stagnant and continued to rinse and repeat the same pattern over and over. This being said they could use some work and be varied some."

I'm not usually one to make drum beats repetitive in my songs; I really don't know what got into me xP.

"Overall you've done a good job with nurturing this baby of yours but it will take some time and effort before it can truly blossom into something more."

Agreed, I'll work on it in the summer along with the other ideas I have ^^.

Anyhow, thanks for the awesome and detailed review! :D

[Snapdragon]

Great

If there was one thing that I loved about this song, it would have to be the acoustic guitar, sounded very well played, excellent work with that. And the transition from the acoustic guitar to a more of a techno melody at around 28 seconds sounded good. The stringed orchestra sounded amazing in this one as well, in key and in tune with each other, outstanding work with that. The beat was good, played in the forefront at times, in the background and behind the melody at others, very dynamic, sounded great. The melody was good too, very catchy and ear-pleasing, good job with it.

[Rose At Twilight]

Very Good

-It reminds me of a final boss, where the fate of the world is dependant on this single battle. It is just something I really couldn't have the words for.

-It's just uncomparable to the rest of the 'Rose' songs. And the funny thing is is that I'm typing this review and I'm already hooked on the first minute.

-Very good, and maybe you could branch off into instead of boss music, maybe just plain old battle music. That music is always decent, but I'm sure you can make it great.

[Edge of Faith]

Perfect Remix

-This song is the definition of perfection. This is the kind of material that inspires others to try and surpass its greatness. The fluent transition from ambient synths to a harder guitar couldn't have been put together any better. The voice in the background gives it just that much more of an ambient feeling.

-The Audio artists that created the sound track for Mirrors Edge should be proud that a piece like this was made to the likeness, if not the surpassing, of their own work.