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[A - Mainstream Sucks]

ooooooooooooooooooooohh sick mate!! loved that minimalistic/industrial feel

what a unique song, felt a bit lost when you went full time dnb I have to say like not too cohesive with the first half

2:48 brought me back tho haha

For the first section I adore that first bass, but didnt like the second SH/yoi one and the third one, I would of preferred just more variation in that first bass

drums awesome, maybe the kick as a little too much bassy tail but everything sounds great to me and nice and clear

awesome song ;P

Sequenced responds:

thanks man

[Str8-Bit (Level 2)]

loving your tunes mate, fav artist on this site right now keep it up

i've got no qualms with this whatsoever

MrStr8face responds:

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoy it! :D

[Strangers feat. Rachel M]

shit what a cracking singer, but let down I feel by lacking production imo

I love the lyrics, arrangement, chords and general composition of the track my problems I think are solely on the production side of things

okay, here we go
-firstly, the vocals I think are way too loud in comparison to the rest of the mix, I say you should bring everything up volumes wise and bring the vocals down a bit (if you're having trouble with clipping you could eq out some frequencies and try parallel compression on them)
-I think most of your instruments sounded too dry, maybe try adding in some more atmospheric effects or a pad
-the bass should be alot more bassy
-I wasn't a fan of your drum samples either (probably intentional but still) the snare felt way too weak and electronic, I would of loved a brighter snare - longer tail, more live feel and bit more punchy/compressed
-the kick was technically good, punchy + bassy enough but I didn't like the drum machine feel of it (like the snare)
-I couldn't really hear the hats too much either, I'd say more top end - and whilst I'm on hats, you could of done with more of them! just to fill out the drums a bit more
-also I didn't think the harmonising parts of the vocals really harmonised well
-contrary to the whleoa I feel the opposite haha, vocals are too loud and the effects sound fine I quite like them
-love the strings :P
-liked the filters on the drums
-the half time section was cool in terms of idea but the drum samples have way too little tail to carry it through

anyways catchy tune, the more I listen the more it grows on me haha one of the better, well executed dnb tunes I've heard on ng (of course all the above is just my opinion)
-aero
shit that was a longer review then I meant to do

Keegs responds:

Holy cow! Haha. Thanks for the criticism. I agree with all of it. I just did a House/Trance song with the same vocalist trying to right the wrongs of this track!

I was worried that the vox were too low so I brought them up and set the master to pump slightly whenever she comes in but now that you point it out, it does seem too overpowering and kills the groove.

Thanks again!

Keegs

[Realistik - ill Sharp Minor]

ugh those high synths have some really harsh harmonics, think you should have cut some end on them

otherwise, sub sounded good and gelled well, and I really love the dirty main bass synth and the piano made it sound a bit epic

I'd probably not mix up your bass synths so much but overall good solid production here - with hard drums and hard bass well done mate

[Cissy strut remix]

Yes, think you're my fav artist on ng
Just the kinda shit I love

Absolutely class arrangement + samples, and tempo dropping - 1:38 was worse than an andy c rewind haha
Loved the drums aswell

I think the bass is a bit too hard for such a nice samples, maybe too much high end/distortion. But thats just me - I'm sure it's meant to be like that
I think there should of been a louder/clearer sub bass (or maybe turn it down an octave, think I can hear one but theres not much)

oh god I love that bass riff, excellent production once again

freezwalm responds:

that's very nice to hear! :) it's normal that you hear to much bass, to much distortion, no sub, etc. because I have extremely crappy gear. I make my tunes on 20 euro speakers from creative (without a sub) or on my 12 euro headphones from philips (they suck balls as well) so it's impossible for me to make a good sub bass, or to get the amounts of distortion right. (i'm a student, no time for a job, no money for gear) and furthermore, I've never had any lessons on mastering or equalizing, so I'm just terrible at those things. I'm just very lucky to have a lot of creativity :) and i really enjoy making tunes! i'm happy you like them ;)

[Facing the danger!]

Firstly, I'd write more if you replied to the reviews- as I feel that you might not read/take on board what I write. So I'll make this kinda brief :P

Beautiful orchestra and piano samples, very clear and pro, the piano had not too much direction and sounded random at times near the beginning mostly and the looped section
Both the kick and snare weren't powerful enough, not enough compression or maybe bad samples (more so on the snare)
The chords sounded beautiful at 2:00
Sounded epic though and very professional nice work

CeeeX responds:

Definitely going to ignore you from now on.

-just kidding x3-

Thanks for the feedback and you're spot on of the fact that the kick didn't come as powerful enough. I wanted to get a kick sample that had much more impact, but I didn't have any good kicks, so I tried my best at the time to make a good kick as well.

[drumstep thing]

That intro arp sounds a bit like the cinema remix by skrillboy
But it's very nice
-That dnb beat build ends really abruptly
-I can't really feel much bass, a little but not much
-I think you should have low cut that trance synth to make way for the bass synths that just got heavily muddied in the mix which is sad cause they sounded awesome
-kick was pretty nice, snare I thought was too weak - but had a good amount of tail (way too much high end though, it sounds more like a snare and cymbal), I would of like more complex hats rather than just one tamb line
-Liked that melody on the trance gate
-Think the intro was a bit too long

overall pretty decent but in the main sections everything blends together and are not really clear individually

Yoshiii343 responds:

Yooooo

- hw do I build up
- the bass was sorta reduced a lot since I thought it would clash with everything else. hahahahaha i'd be a terrible mixing engineer
- yeeeeeeeaaah didn't really think of that. My usage of the filters are pretty...shit.
- that snare sounding like it had a cymbal with it was intended. layering is fun, sometimes. as for complex hats...yeaaaaaah.
- agreed on the intro bit. i still don't know how long to make the intros lol.

Thanks.

[The Threat]

Right, what I think
firstly 7 hours - what? god darn you, takes me about a week to do one track

oh you've got me with this track - just what I love, sometimes do tracks like this myself
Not sure if it'd be more fit in the solo instrument genre rather than vg but I do get how this is a vg piece. Reminds me of a piano collections arrangement of an RPG track. I think it would have been better if you made it loopable so it could be used in battle flashes and stuff easily.
It fits a battle where there isn't too much a threat haha like lower level monsters and shizz

Piano sounded beautiful and well produced. I think the high solo-esque parts on the right hand this track could of done without -or at least most of them, although they sounded good they left the song without an overarching melody. I did love the melody that plays on the first few bars of the main sections and I feel there should have been more of that and more repetition to make it feel less cluttered
That transition at 1:06 didn't work at all for me sorry, maybe you could leave out the right hand on that bit and had a slight build in the chords. It just sounded forced or just not quite right

anyways, this was a good song all in all and fit exactly what it's meant to I felt

[Hermetico]

thank god - I listened to the top 5 or so dnb songs (with a decent amount of listens/downloads/votes) and they were all absolute shiite

love this one - sounds extremely unique and those drums are killer, you've restored my faith in ng dnb haha

[Sonar Propagation {Dj-Abbic}]

needs more bass! and when sometimes it comes through it feels inconsistent
load up a visual EQ or something to be able to see where you need more frequencies - and with dance music like you're going for bass is a big part

synths were all great - that saw thing had waaaay too much high end though sounds like theres constantly white noise. The (bass) kinda wubs and wobs (although not really prominent enough) along with the complextro style beeps sounded really well done

i also think that kick needs to be lower - good risers and effects, never really felt empty and I liked the flow and chords (especially around 2:00 :P)

I just loaded it up in an EQ and it seemed to bring out the kick more raising it at 88Hz and I rolled out at about 11kHz to get rid of that white noise (if you didn't understand that then I suggest you research EQing)

annneeeeewayyy great song man keep it up :)

DjAbbic responds:

Haha yeah, I really bumped up the highs on the saws and there was a lot of white noise added to them. I guess I got used to them after listening to this over and over, but I liked how sharp they sounded. They do sound a bit loud in the mix though.

I'm glad you didn't find it feeling empty. That's something that really bothers me and I try my best to make it sound as full as possible.

I'll check out the EQ stuff, but I don't plan to make any changes to this (kind of like keeping a progress report thing, if you know what I mean)

Thanks a lot for the constructive review!