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[What Am I Even Doing?]

Making a glitch-crush-misc loop apparently!

This thing is actually not the most "in-audible" thing I've ever heard, and I could see this being morphed into a sick "AdultSwim Bump" with a bit of adjustment.

Things to take a second look at:
- The drum track/ bassline sound a bit lost (Maybe find a way to change that)
- We have a rule against submitting spam stuff... so I hope you figure out what you're doing before you send us another request :(

Overall; weird
~Sonik

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MutantMindframe responds:

Thanks! I've been trying to improve my mixing in my newer tracks. I can't tell what you mean by spam stuff, but the song title is meant to be taken literal. :)

[Unwavering Assault]

Sick as always Steph :)

The orchestral shit sounds epic right off the bat, and the guitar accompaniment really completes the overall flow of everything!

I could totally see this being used in an fighting game, for an epic stage. Maybe like, the theme for the semi-final boss (right before the boss that rips through the fabric of time and space, which will obviously require something a bit more chaotic... This however says to me; You're making your accent to (what you think is the final battle) :]

Your melodies are very original in this song, and I really have to say man... this one is different, so good I'm at a loss of words... and don't even know where to begin.

What I DO know is, this is awesome;
Incredible work Bro!

I cannot wait to hear the next one x3

~Sonik

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Step responds:

Heeeeyyy :3. Thanks for reviewing buddy.

"The orchestral shit sounds epic right off the bat, and the guitar accompaniment really completes the overall flow of everything!"

Awesome, glad you liked that stuff. This is my second ever decent orchestral/rock song (fourth if you include the crappy ones) so hearing that I got the instrumentation right is a relief!

"I could totally see this being used in an fighting game, for an epic stage. Maybe like, the theme for the semi-final boss (right before the boss that rips through the fabric of time and space, which will obviously require something a bit more chaotic... This however says to me; You're making your accent to (what you think is the final battle) :]"

Oh yeah I'm totally cool with this being for a semi-final boss stage :3. I never intended it to sound like a boss battle, but I did intend it to sound epic, since I love making music like that, so it's only natural for it to sound like a boss theme I guess.

"Your melodies are very original in this song, and I really have to say man... this one is different, so good I'm at a loss of words... and don't even know where to begin.

What I DO know is, this is awesome;
Incredible work Bro!

I cannot wait to hear the next one x3"

Wow thanks! Maths homework is the only obstacle stopping me from making more music anytime soon, sadly... Ah well, can't wait for the Christmas holidays.

Really glad you enjoyed it!

[Timelapse (WIP)]

kind of reminds me of old VG music

but god is this pitchy/ clippy Dx

Phobotech has a good point 29 seconds in killed my ears, and this is not trance; more like Video game/ Misc

I can see what you were going for here, and you're not far off from a good bonus stage tune or something like that for a videogame.

Things to take a second look at;
- Those pitchy parts need work (master/ eq away my friend)
- the melodies in this are okay, but kind of repetitive at points x.x
- The drums samples used here sound pretty fake/ midi-ish

overall not bad, but could use some fine tuning
~Sonik

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ochrence responds:

The harshness of :29 and pitchy parts can be easily fixed - I didn't really pay much mind to mixing/mastering as of yet. As can the melodies and drum samples - though it's hard to get better samples than those from a 707 and 909. Maybe I should have just equalized them better. I'm glad that you didn't think it was My Little Pony on acid.
Thanks for the review!
-ochrence

Edit: Changed the genre because I agree with you that it's more video game than trance. Especially in the first part.

[<<Replicants>>]

Sick! Reminds me of Feed Me!

I really loved how much effort you put into the drop on this one bro seriously awesome stuff! The orginization of this song SCREAMS John Gooch, and I'm seriously impressed broski!

Things to take a second look at:
- As much as I love the orginization of this track, the sample quality is so-so; I would love to hear this re-done with some serisouly beast-ass instruments
- this drop has a striking resemblance to Blood Red by Feed Me, Coincidence?
- The drums could use some much moreee dude! I would really love to hear you beef these samples up as well

Seriously great composition!
~Sonik

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BulimicLemur responds:

Yes, John Gooch is my idol eh. Definitely my favourite producer and biggest influence.

I agree, after it was finished I noticed the drum sounds didn't seem too punchy but I'm not sure how to achieve that really. I did what I usually do- just layer one or two kicks or snares then EQ them so one's the highs and one's the lows. What would you suggest doing with the drums to make it sound more "beefy"? Since making this I got told to keep my instruments a way lower volume up til mastering, so that would've helped to get the volumes right- which might have made the drums seem more punchy, but except for that I'm sort of clueless about any surefire way of getting "BEEF".

Also maybe mastering might've made the drums -and the rest of the track- seem a bit more punchy? I'm not sure about any way of properly mastering songs though. My mastering has basically just been some subtle multiband compression and EQ, and making sure the volume's as loud as it can be, but once again, I don't really know what I'm doing haha.

Thanks for the review anyway man. I listened to, reviewed, and downloaded your DeadMau5 style song- AWESOME.

PM me if you want to respond to the questions I asked you.
Cheeeeers, awesome review.
BL

[realguitaring WIP "Good as..."]

not bad dude :]

Although it would have been nice to hear more accompaniment from other instruments; this is nice, and you got the point across.

Some parts are great, and other parts kinda just fall to pieces; don't get me wrong this is a great starting point, but when you know something sound off in the recording... it's always worth it to go back and fix it.

It's really great to hear someone submitting ACTUAL material that they played on an instrument, as that is somewhat of a rarity nowadays so I can't fault you here.

Overall, great effort bro; keep at it!
~Sonik

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UltimateCJ64 responds:

Thanks dude. Other instruments you say? Well, Firefreezer and I are working on a remake of this. I'm just doing the rhythm guitar and drums, he's doing a lead guitar and piano and bass.

Again, keep in mind this was way early, I practically just got started on guitar, both tracks were done in several takes, still newb-like, so I just said, "screw it, this is probably gonna be the best it will be for a week" and left it as-is. The way I'm playing it now (several weeks later) is at least 10x better.

Thanks for the review, dude! And I'll keep practicing.

[Project Malu & Kaumaha]

Skilled in the way of ambience

I love the slow yet driving beat, and beautiful leads used in this song!
The samples with heavy saturation/ delay make this piece sound hollow, and sorrowful; while on the other side of the spectrum I can hear the very soft and Peaceful additions as well.

It seems to me like you accomplished the exact influential mix that you were going for, and you did it well at that

Incredible work my friend!
~Sonik

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Rinileki14 responds:

Thanks a lot man!!! Actually, With all due respect, I didn't use samples and I didn't use delay for this song. Every part of this song was intentionally written out as you hear it. Thank you! I appreciate it!

[Adjeye-3 ~ Sentivicated.]

nice nice :]

Your build up in this song was rather long, but rather notable as well; I really liked how you slowly brought many different layers to the surface over time very classic-trancy. The piano lead that built up to the drop was nice, and DURING the drop i think you had the right idea but I would have changed a few things here.

Things to look at:
- Your build up is good, but too long; not many people are gonna stick around 3 minutes for a drop (if they do it better be god like)
- Dynamically this was a bit confusing, and by the time the drop actually came around it kinda caught me off guard in a bad way :[
- Your drop is in need of some post-composition mastering bro; This part could be sick, but your samples sound a bit mushed, and clippy... give them room to breathe!

Overall great effort, just give it a bit more!

~Sonik

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Adjeye responds:

I see wat you mean here, but you need to take in considering that this track is even too short. It is progressive after all.

But you're right, I should have made more drops and improve my mastering skills,
(I am not the best in that:P).

Thanks for the list man :).

[Riddickulous (WIP)]

Glitchy, Hard, and Rediculous!

This is a pretty beastly song :]

I love how you managed to mash-up the newer dub-filthy sounds, with and almost happy-hardcore beat; this track reminded me of my man Scott Brown from the old bonkers compilations! SICK!

The driving beats, and repetitive melodies in this song were definitely enough to get my head bobbing, and I could see this song going offfff in a club...
my biggest complaint though...
It ended right when it was getting good :[

Things to look at:
- Make it longer :]

Overall; BEAST MODE!

~Dj Sonik
( Thanks for the recent review brodie, you rock! :] )

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Dj-GST responds:

Scott Brown :D I was just listening to a couple of his tracks, dudes amazing!

Haha yeah, I kind of ran out of ways to expand it, but I've gotten some great ideas from all these reviews :D

I will for sure!

No problem bro, you got some wicked tracks :D

3S

[Satisfaction -Drx- Edition RMX]

Interesting take on a house classic! :]

I really enjoyed this remix, and although it's not the most catchy thing ever I give you mad props for reworking this song in a different way :]

This remix puts a pretty fresh/ driving/ techno feel to an already great song.

If I could change anything:
- The filter automation that you used for the intro was cool, but I felt that this part could have used a bit more x.x
- Your mixing sounds alright, but I think that bassline could use some serious EQ smoothing (The subs are a bit too much)
- The mastering of this sounds a bit cloudy, maybe rework your mastering process a bit?

Not bad at all dude, but it could use some polishing up as well
~Sonik

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DavidRx responds:

maybe after i upgrade my pc
have no idea when that will happen x.x

i really want to work on this track but guess ill have to wait
um what do you mean by cloudy XP

anyways Thx for the review ^^

[Strawberry Jam!]

Interesting mixture of styles :o

Loved the intro right away, very nice opening groove :)

The mixture of instruments here is slightly different from what I would expect to hear from an indie band, but I like the touches of Swing/ Progressive that you've incorporated into this :]

The vocals were great and really entertaining, but the quality of the vocal recording was crap (I couldn't really make out a lot of the words :[

Overall, I think you guys have a lot of talent; now go to a better studio :p
~Sonik

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trabajaba7 responds:

Yeah for some reason this one came out the worst for vocals on the album, but hey what can you do with a very limited amount of money.
Thanks for the review!