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[Passive Ignorance]

Finally, it's not techno or trance...

I listened to this for quite awhile because I was reviewing a piece of art while listening to this. I really couldn't catch anything like bad mixing or really anything that bad for that matter.

I guess the way it started off lead me to think that the song was going to be a bit heavier. It wasn't though, but I felt that having a heavy part somewhere around the middle of the song could have really helped. Something like a break down with both the drums and the guitar.

It sounds really good though and I personally can't find too much if anything wrong with it. I think it's even a good piece to find someone to do vocals to if you had the time to find someone to do something like that. There's a lot of good parts for slightly heavier rock singing and some for the more traditional singing as well.

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Sawdust responds:

Thanks for the review! I'll probably focus on a Bonhamesque drum breakdown next time, because arps can only take the heavy so far, amirite?

Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed the song, and I'm happy to break the pace of constant techno/trance songs that you guys tend to get.

[I have a potion]

Ah, not my cup of tea.

Of course, I don't like tea either. I figured I'd review one of your pieces. Every single other piece seemed to be techno and trance and I wanted something a bit different. With your piece, I got that something different. I don't know though, perhaps it was just a bit too different.

It was original and random, but the random was way too random in my opinion. Especially in the beginning of the song. It seemed to get way too off track and I thought I was seriously listening to random noise here for awhile. Later on the song there seemed to be more structure and it started to sound a little better. Throughout the entire thing there was room for more structure and order for sure though.

I did like the use of voices, but I don't like the pitch or sound that they were rendered at. I think if they were a bit more clearer then the piece would have been more interesting.

All in all, I'm not saying it's a bad song at all. I'm just stating that even though you perhaps got out of your comfort zone and tried something new or original, it was still a little too random in my opinion. Finding the happy medium between random/glitchy sounds and structure might be the key for this piece.

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Calamaistr responds:

tip aside your review: listen to it on repeat a few times.

:)

[It's a Fuckin Loop!?]

Perfect looping

If you wanted to make a full song out of it go ahead, but this is a great loop as it is. It wouldn't be long enough to use for a long time as it would get repetitive quickly, but if someone wanted it to loop one or two times then this would be a perfect loop for a movie or game.

I can actually see this being used in some sort of happy running scene. Where a character is just way too happy and is bouncing/bounding down the street. Then something like white noise could suddenly appear and something bad could happen, changing the song to something more dangerous or heavy.

Even though that's what it made me think of perhaps you could take that idea and implement it in the full version of the song. It would give the feeling of a happy day where nothing could go wrong, but things quickly change. Or you could just stick with it's happy nature as it is.

So yeah, would be great for many situations in a flash, but if someone wanted to use it for longer scenes then you should make it a tad bit longer and add just a little bit of variety in the middle to mix it up. Ok, that's all I'm going to be able to say about this piece. It gets quite annoying after it loops 20 times in a row. :P

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Dj-GST responds:

Hehe, I like your idea man. I think I might just use it in the longer version :)

I'll get rid of those bells though, I agree that this loop gets annoying.

[[AL] Pretending]

I figured...

That I should review something from the RRC here so I don't go too inactive so I decided to review someone who I was familiar with. Sorry if the review isn't exactly helpful though because I'm really not in the mood to review this type of audio. I want something like heavy metal. :P

Anyway, yeah you played this on the piano? Hmm, I was going to state that I thought it sounded too manufactured, but if you played this on the piano then it wasn't a premade sound I guess. My ears have no clue what they hear anymore with my old age.

There seems to be a clash of genres that almost work great together, but just not quite yet. I think it had something to do with the glitchy sound that the drums gave off. It wasn't bad enough to make me dislike the song though.

The song really does give that feeling of pretending that everything is going to be alright. I think you did a wonderful job of portraying that feeling in this song. The fade out at the end was very effective as well.

Overall, the song was pretty good. There just seemed to be a bit of odds and ends that seemed to clash to me, but I just couldn't pinpoint them down to specifics.

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ChampionAnwar responds:

Yaaaay Fro! :D I've never really been able to make metal. . For me that has to actually be physically played to get decent sound, and seeing as I can't do that~ It'll be ages before I get that, but I won't rule it out :D

I did play the piano, I can guess it sounded manufactured because it didn't seem 'human' enough? If that is correct, it's most probably because I quantized all my notes so they'd be perfectly on beat, I'm quit obsessive with the placement of notes xP. Oh and ya, 21 isn't old. . Come on now xD.

Ah, and I love glitch-core music ALOT, so yeah I thought I'd incorporate that into this tune one way or not. . That glitchy hi-hat was probably what you picked out. I'll hope to make a fusion that works next time hehehe.

I'm glad for you I portrayed what the song name suggested, and thanks for the kind words. . Yaaay for RRC members =P.

Hmm, I'll look into those odds and see what I can conjure up :D Thanks for the review man! :D

[M stosy (mystic field)]

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You happen to be my 2,000 total review. (counting both flash and audio reviews) I know that has nothing to do with your song, but I thought you might want to know. :P

The song starts off a bit slow, but it is almost a good way to bring people in and build up for the final part that you had. Personally though if I was an impatient person I would have probably listened to the first minute and got quite bored of it. Perhaps a little spice in the beginning or middle somewhere could help prevent this.

It loops perfectly! I had no clue it was a loop until I went back and noticed that I was half way through the song again. So great job on making such a good loop. It is something that I wouldn't mind listening to over and over again. I actually listened to it three times while writing this review. Good job all around.

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Calamaistr responds:

This track is buildup a bit the same as 'Rainroad' it keeps a drag on a easy listening riff and builds toward the climax.

Most of my music (with some exceptions ofcourse) is meant to loop and i try to do so in a manner that isnt noticed right away so i guess that one worked. :)

I dont know about impatient persons, but persons do need to understand my work is a rather custom melodical style, most often the real music is either in the total, like in the structure (not to mistake for pattern) (of the melody) while most of todays 'popular musics 'music' is in the chords being repeated. (thank god there is still jazz and folk and accoustic classical music around aswell) When i repeat in music its always to set a tone to change the direction of the melody. Instead of repetition therefore i call it drag, because it makes it drag toward the melody, perhaps tedious.. but intentional. With electronical instrumentation, i guess i just like the sound of it and its a bit nostalgic since i threw 2 years of my life into sitting on the floor in front of a tv and a console to make music, yea.. till i got a couch and spended another 2 slightly upgraded. :)

Thanks for the review.

[p4c-Maleficence [Short Mix] HQ]

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I like how you change it up when you really slowed it down and then sped it up there as a transition. (Around a minute and twenty seconds) You use something similar again later which makes it a little overdone though. I suggest only using the first one to really maximize the effect that it has on the listener.

Other then that don't change a thing. This was really good. There was such a mix of genres and sounds in here that I was excited to see what was coming next. At the same time you never got too wild or busy in the song.

So great job. Other than my one suggestion I thought it was really good. Keep up the good work.

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p4c responds:

got it man. ill think about the 2nd time around--if i lengthen the buildup i dont think it's a problem, cuz the reason i put the break there is to build up even more tension since the onset of hte next beat becomes even less predictable. i'll see what i can do, thank you for the constructive review, and expect me back soon ;)

[power of Drum&Bass.V2]

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0 bombed hard huh? I don't think this deserves to be under a 2.00 so let's see what we can do here... Hm, 2.5 is much better then a 1.9 :P

The song isn't too bad, but I think that it's major flaw is that it just takes too long to get going. The voices in the beginning are good, but then it's just a very repetitive song for quite awhile. It isn't until most of the way through the song until you change some things up and add variety to it.

The voices could be used more than just the generic start and ending voices. I pretty much predicted exactly where they were going to be used. So overall, it takes off too slowly and the voices could be used in a more original way. The song itself was pretty decent when it got started though.

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jpgregorio responds:

thanks, i actually stretched it out to make it longer but now i see it was a mistake,about the voices...i didn't have any other ideas for it. Bye.

[In My Dreams - Jxl180]

Audio Review Number 1,000 :)

I'll start off with my only complaint if you could even consider it that. The very first vocals that you use kind of got drowned out by the music. After listening again I clearly heard what it said so perhaps it was just the fact that I wasn't ready for vocals to be used.

Hm, perhaps add the lyrics to your author comments? The vocals and lyrics were by far the best part of the submission in my opinion. I think you used just enough were they were getting repetitive and there wasn't a need for anymore of them.

The music behind the vocals was very good as well and would have probably done good without the vocals. In my opinion though the vocals really add to it so don't think that I'm saying to take them away or anything. :P

Overall, a very nice song where the vocals really add a lot to it. Nice pace and beat all the way through.

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jxl180 responds:

Thank you very much for the great review, and I'm glad I was your 1,000th review!

Congrats,
Jxl180

[Stargenx - Magical Pipe]

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I can really see this song being used for several different things and it also allows the listener to create their own mental image of what they are listening to. For example when I listened to this song I thought of Native Americans and hopefully people can see why I thought that.

This would be great for the use of an opening scene in a flash or movie where they were switching from scene to scene of different things or panning across a landmass of mountains or something of the sort.

I don't think I can see it being used in the middle of a movie or as a song in the movie, but it could really be used for the credits. Especially after a somewhat sad story or ending to the story.

An all around good piece, which I find has many uses and allows the listener to create a lot of images.

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Stargenx responds:

Thanks for the awesome review! :D

[Kaleidoscope Eye]

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Wow, I just really don't know what to say about this one. It sounds like a joke submission to me, but even then I couldn't rate it high simply because I don't see where it is funny or entertaining in anyway.

The original music was pretty good. By it's own it would have gotten a pretty low score because it was so simple and everything. It could have used some variety, but as a backing to voices it's a good choice of music.

The high pitch voices just weren't good. There were times where it sounded like you recorded all of them separate and you could obviously hear the cuts in between. If they weren't recorded separately then it was just some rushed mixing.

I also heard a lot of the vocals breath. I heard the pfff and the hufff into the mic. Perhaps move the mic up a bit away from the mouth as I have found this really helps me when doing voices. If you didn't do the vocals then find someone else first. If you have no chance of finding someone else then give them some tips.

On top of those things that were wrong with the higher voice they simply didn't sound good. They almost seemed like they were talked instead of sung. The deeper whisper voices were good and added a little bit to the submission, but not much because everything else took so much away.

The ending of the song was really bad in my opinion. It sounded like you started recording something made from the computer and then finished by recording something really far away from a low quality recording device.

Overall, the vocals weren't very good, the song itself was very simple, and the ending wasn't very good quality. The song as a whole wasn't entertaining, funny, or good in anyway. Sorry for the low review, but I feel it's an honest review.

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TheSongSalad responds:

thanks for the review still man.