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[TB ft X-trax - Frozen Memorial]

HEYHEY! PROGRESS! I LIKE!

good job!
i like the progress man. it could use a little more of that fullness i told you not to lose.
it also needs to start a bit better.
besides that, you've come a long way. you must have got some help from Dj X-Trax!
that guy really knows what he's doing. listen to him. this stuff is pretty hardcore like 2/5.

but again with the ending man, you need to work on that.
allover, it was great!
im still gunna keep you posted!

NICE JOB!

blizzard0717 responds:

Thanks dude!! I really apreciate your reviews, you're awesome.

And Yeah Dj X-Trax and me worked very hard on this song. He's an awesome person. You can check out his version of the song here: http://www.newgrounds.com /audio/listen/408730

[Toxic Blizzard - Boreal Sky]

hey, nice job.

realistically, it deserves, a 5 or 6, because, its not that catchy or anything, but understand youre just starting out, so here are a few pointers:
-start out slow, not so hard hitting right away in the first 5 seconds. if you need to, give it like 20 seconds to flow together.
-you're envelope effects on certain notes werent executed to their full potential. if you're gunna use them, make sure to take a bit more time.
- you gotta use certain effects to not make it sound so 8 bit in the beginning. experiment around and see what you find. im sure you'll be pleasantly surprised ^-^
- i see what youre going for, and take my advice, dont go for it. you're trying to come up with something thats originally that doesn't sound like you got it from anywhere else, and while individuality is good, not for a first song man. use a common beat, and just build off of that, you'll be amazed at what you can come up with.
-make sure the tracks flow better together. i noticed that some of you're tracks didn't complement each other that well, and you might want to look into that, and make it more pleasing to the ear.

ok, those are just a few pointers i can offer for you're music. hahaha, ill let you know, when i started to use programs like sonar, i had no idea how to control shit, and from what you're doing, you knew more about how effects were sooner than i did when i started out.
but what i did like, was the overall complementary tones that gave it that fullness of an actual song. dont lose that aspect. as soon as you do, everything falls down.

one more thing before i cut off. where does it end?
i know endings are hard, bro, trust me, but you gotta spend a little more time on them because of that. be honest, that ending wasn't the best you got right? ahh, yeah, well, the more you mess around with, the more likely youll find something you really like, and that can totally be used as a trail off.

AND AGAIN,
great job with what you've come up with. that was a great first try at techno. i cant wait to see what else you have coming up bro. ill follow youre stuff and keep you posted. good luck composing man! i have faith you'll do great!

[Impossible to Convey]

Sexy beat man

those are some epic wipe effects.
i love your work.
keep writing.

[Sybratic]

nice job

i enjoyed the way you brought classics, like cannon, and put it into this tech beat. good job. sept it really started to get repetitive. you cant just rely on one line. make some more stuff to make it sound better. you need bass. and a lot of it.

SystemOverload1337 responds:

Thanks for the review, I'm definitely going to go back and remix this song haha.

[/-FreeFall-\]

hey man, not bad at all!

ok, so i like the overall idea for the song completely! its a great song.
there are just several aspects bugging me with the entire song.
what i enjoyed
-intro-good intro. the part in between the first drum hit, and the rest of the drum line allowed too much room where nothing happened, so you might want to put instrument filler, preferably bass in between then.

constructive critiques:
-sometimes, when the melody synths come in, it sounds really hard hitting, clawing and scratching at the ears, almost hard to listen to. you might wanna look into how you have the amps and decibels set.
-DRUM LINE.
what is with your drum loop. as soon as the song began, i thought, hmm, that sounds like that drumloop could turn into something awesome. and it never changed once. that was really disappointing to hear, as an artist.
-transition
your transition to the other key was a poor way to transition. just by slowly bending pitches. yeah, i guess its not done often, so i guess its something different, but the reason why is, yeah, it offers something different to provide a transition, but it creates unbearable dissonance, and makes the song hard to listen to. learn how to shift keys in different ways, that will help a lot. the way that you did it wasn't good. and, also, you shifted to a key that doesnt match up in a good way with the original key you wrote the song in. you might want to select a more complementary tone for smoother transition.
-repetitiveness
ok, well, this song would be good, if it ended a lot earlier. i know, i like to have long songs too, but sometimes, people need to realize that songs can be good short or long. some songs sound even 10X better when they're shorter. this can be for 2 reasons
1. the song came to a resolution point, and everything already came to a most satisfying close. that wasn't yours, but its just one of the reasons
2. yours. the song, if repeated too much, becomes extremely repetitive. i enjoy your song. but i dont enjoy it enough to listen to it for 6 minutes. sorry.
i probably had more things to critique, but i forgot them, sorry :D

Darkfire96 responds:

Well there are some things i have to fix right? Well ill consider them, but i dont do generic trance. I understand that everything you are telling me is pro, but still if i had made some of those changes then i would be making generic trance, and i want to differ from that. Pitchbending, in a way, makes it Chaotic. But i agree as that wasn't the key was was hoping to make it to. I overshot it and went too high. But FL studio pitch knobs are way to small to tell anything. Your right. All of the instruments in this song are actually fighting because i didn't do what all great artists have to do sometime in there lifetime. I didn't master it. I still like how this came out however as even if the key change was extremely odd sounding it actually made sense. I would've changed it by now if i didn't like it so i really want to keep it how it is. Its like one of those mistakes that makes you go"Oh so THATS how it should sound." Im so sorry about the percussion, but i didn't put all of my effort into this song. I would've mastered it already, and shortened it...as well as add a breakarp. But i meant this to calm you and energize you at the same time. Back to the key change. Poor is not the right way of saying things here...i think. I probably about to be disproved through PM but Im going to say that you where going for odd. Sure its amateur, but even then its kinda not used very often so its original in a way. I definitely could've done better though, but Im still learning so...yea. Thanks for your review as i will take everything said here into account.
Angels Gone Rogue

/-DJ Chaos-\

[Death From The Sky]

meh, not good. not really.

the song had a great opening that you could have done so much more with. your drum line is absolutely horrendous. consider giving the drum line more depth. it would be more acceptable to have that bass line if you had more depth in tone, say a better harmony to melody to ratio. not only that though, but songs aren't all about tremolo, fade, phasers, wahs, freq shifts, equalizers, at all. you need to have a basic song structure before you can boost your song's ego with flashy effects. otherwise it gets extremely repetitive and annoying. you really need to work with tone depth over all. thats pretty much it. what you created is a skeleton of a song. those sound terrible alone, you could do so much more.
Keep working at it, you'll find a decent sound soon. you show a little potential.