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[Bubble Out (Test)]

Review :P

OK, first of all, I'm not going to be a kiss-ass and stuff and tell you it's good, I'm gonna nam the good parts and the bad parts, but bare in mind that this is my OPINION.
Ok To be honest, I din't like the Plucky thing throughout the whole song, It seems amelodic and would be better off as some type of percussion element with a pad in the backgrounds, or else switch it with some other synth because this little loop really has potential, and it's worth working on.
The bass in the background was very nice, it got my sub woffer purring and I <3 it, Amazing bass ^^
The percussion was generic, but you couldn't have gone any other way, the good news is a perfect choice of percusion, but I would suggest adding some more percussion.
Anyway, overall good song, but work on it :)

8/10
5/5
[deciBel]

[p4c - Trial and Error (Loop)]

You're Back? :P

First of all, Welcome back to the audio community, Haven't seen you in a while, glad to see you're back =)

Anyway Technical Stuff :

Overall, It's a nice loop, it loops almost perfectly apart from that little bit of static-ish sound at the end. The main synth is Ok, it just needs a bit of tweaking, and needs to be slightly louder. And the bells here and there were a nice touch, Good Job^^
The Percussion was very nice, sounded deadmau5-y, which n other words, is professional generic :P
Another Problem was that I found the melodic elemnts slightly random, You could have made a sustained string chord in the background and used another synth to make a full melody..
9/10
5/5
Definitely something worth working on.

[deciBel]

p4c responds:

yup, here i am! i've been really busy with school and stuff, but im scraping time here and there.

the looping was just a way to present this wip, so im not at all concerned about that :)

i agree with the percussion point. a lot. im trying to find ways to distinguish the style from other proghouse performers, but its tough ;) my more extreme ideas sometimes sound okay, but they never feel as polished. i have a lot of stems now of tracks that are sonically out there, but i always run into walls on how to effectively develop and refine them. ill work on it!

the melodic elements are not regularly timed, this is true. i think that the issue is that there isn't a lot of details to make the listener able to detect the meter easily. perhaps a more sophisticated percussive line or other instruments that play at regular intervals would help.

thanks for the feedback!

[xKore - Splatterhouse (WI]

K.......

That Sine-y Bell thing has some volume issues, it's loud at times and not at other, that's what I'm hearing at least.
Otherwise, it's a hardcore dubstep track! Good Job!

[deciBel]

Would Love to Collab ya sometime ^^

[~Alfa~ Beyond]

Teh review....

Intro : Very nice everything blends it well and gives the old school euphoric trance feeling. The fades in are good and it didn't slow down the process of the intro. The amount of bass in it got my subwoofer smiling and when the kick in comes it's just amazing, Very soothing yet energetic, which leads me to the next part of the review.

Body of Song : I liked it actually, In fact I'd have to say this is one of your best trance songs so far, The blend of instruments was very nice and the lead bell thing fit in, but at the same being very put of the ordinary, and The plucks were very nice, They added not only depth but also energy to the whole song.

Outro : Just wow, You ended with a climax of all the instruments playing together, Making a subtle yet influential chord to end the 7-minutes. Not much else to say about it, It's a song ending so I already commented on the other stuff.

Melodies : Not Bad, the melodies were quite dark, I actually loved them!
The pluck melodies were very good. If not slightly cliche.
That little voice-y thing you got going on was awesome, although I would suggest making it slightly louder, because the melody really complimented the lead an then led to a crescendo.

Drums : Not much to say on drums, But I'll do what I can.\
The beginning started off with a 4 by 4 kick, generic, but it couldn't have gone any other way, then when that clap comes in, it doesn't sound very good, it's like it's lowpassed and faded out, any way, that could use some work too.
The hi hats were good to, but the hats themselves weren't the best, I'd suggest using the VEC3 Hi-hats if these aren't them.

Overall : 9/10 and 5/5 this song is beautiful and has a lot of potential, Keep working on it because it's amazing!

Hope I helped!

[deciBel]

aliaspharow responds:

Thanks dude! I think you are right about the drums, they will need revising. Your review is very appreciated.

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This is a Review

It starts of very well, The drum beats have a darkness to them and have the cinematic-ness in them, If I do say so myself, Melodies are nice and The pads/instruments themselves have quitea feeling to them.

The only thing I can complain about is the hi-hats, they were very annoying.

Sorry for the half-assed review..

9/10
5/5
[deciBel]

[~Alfa~ Faith (Rough)]

Classica Trance at its best!

I liked this, It reminded me of the first trance songs I used to listen to so basically not much to criticize here.

The melodies were good, despite it's length, this song, is listenable, don't take it the wrong way, It means interesting :P

The only thing that bothered me was that it seems as if it's highpassed all the way through, which isn't good, I'm afraid.

And Also, Nice touch on the flanger, I like =D

aliaspharow responds:

Sorry. I do love me some highpass ^^

[DJ YouKraine - House'd 2]

Review...

Piano :

First of all the piano is immensely repetetive, like, very repetetive that a person couldn't stand it.
Then, the technicalities, the piano itself is wayy too loud and overpowers the rest of the stuff in the beginning, and also, mixing much? I would suggest decreasing the bass and middle, adding some reverb, and then adding a delay effect with the delay at 0.5 seconds, then lower the volume and add a stereo enhancer.

Then the lead, the lead itself isn't bad cuz it IS house-y but it would stand to be decreased from the volume a little too.

Then the melody, I can't say melodieS because there's oly one in each instrument/synth, I would suggest adding some more melodies to keep interesting and bounce-y, so to speak.

The drums, not bad but very generic, so they need work too.

All in all, not bad, just needs a lot of work, but keep building on it, the idea's there.

And also, I'm trying to HELP, so don't answer me arrogantly just cuz you don't agree with me, this is MY input, and not anyone else's.

[deciBel]

6/10
5/5

PM me if you build on this...

You-Kraine responds:

THANK YOU (for your review!)
its really helpful.
But i think i won't work on it.
But thanks !

[TI:.Empty Void]

Not bad

Piano melody isn;t bad, just extremely repetetive, it could use another two bars in it, but the mixing of it wasn't bad, just decrease the reverb slightly.
The hat-snare-hat thing..... oh the hat-snare hat thing, Not only is it extremely generic but doesn't fit at all with the piano, both the drums themselves and the drum beats need a makeover, seriously.
The kick, frankly, is just a basic sequencer kick in my opinion.
The plucks weren;t bad, but, like the piano were repetetive.

Stick to dance......

7/10
5/5
[deciBel]

TIMarbury responds:

Thanks for the informative response. I probably will stick to dance in the end unless i start playing around with fixing this which I'm not sure i want to. I know i can do better than this honestly and i take your critiques seriously. thanks

[Color This World (IDM Mix)]

Nice

Your usual, very soothing ambient.....
The pads in the beginning flowed well with the whole Idea of the song, they added depth and made the song a whole lot better.....
I would suggest adding another instrument onto this because it seemed empty without a main instrument, I know the whole idea of IDM is to focus more on the drums, but something else would be much better.
The drum beats were good, the glitching was superb, but the drums hits themselves were a bit bad, I would suggest using some low volumed rock drums.
Also, the pads were slightly dissonant in parts of the song.

Anyway, that's just my idea....

[deciBel]

8/10
5/5

[[Invalid.Parameters] - DJRM]

Hmm....

The white noise and randoms sounds in the beginning made a pretty good intro, although I found the white noise to get more and more annoying towards the end.
I found this to be extremely repetetive, it had no melodic elements, no climax, nothing, just some sound slapped on some white noise......
The samples themselves weren't bad, the random hits here and there were nice but that kick is horrible, Fruity Kick much?

Well, I'll give you a 7 for the effort, but fix this, more melodic elements, better drums, not just a 4/4 kick and remove some of the white noise.....

Good Luck!

[deciBel]

7/10
4/5

RobMagic responds:

Thanks for your input. There are no samples though this was all made in 3xOsc and Sytrus.