Score: 8

"Nice arrangement"

submission: Saria's Ragtime Jazz (Zelda)

date: July 19, 2009

The concept and composition is excellent, the only gripe I have with it is it's not a live performance - you can tell it's just recorded straigt out whatever score software you used, which is a hell of a shame as it really sucks the expression out of what has the potential to be a really awesome improvised solo in the mid section.

Score: 9

"Latency"

submission: Town At Night

date: July 6, 2009

Google and download ASIO 4 All, that should fix your latency issue.

Score: 7

"Woah."

submission: PX9 Airbass/Zero Gravity Remix

date: July 2, 2009

ParagonX9 is a man, baby.

Can't believe people fell for that one.

Score: 6

"Not too shabby"

submission: Dub(01)

date: June 16, 2009

You're definatly on the right tracks for dubstep. Your arrangement, rhythms and structure was spot on, but you really need to work on the sounds produced. The bass is incredibly grating at the start and I had to floor my amp volume before I deafened myself.

The drums are also, in my opinion, a bit too dirty, and could also benefit from some reverb.

Score: 9

"Lovely"

submission: Franswa - 4:40 AM

date: May 5, 2009

Nice trip-hop you got going there. You need to clear up you loops a bit in a wave editor, sometimes the transition from sample to sample is not as smooth as it could be. Is there a tempo discrepancy? I'd advise porting them into Recycle to make them more manageable.

Maybe it's just because I'm a Portishead fan, but I really expect vocals in a track like this...

Score: 7

"Pretty good"

submission: Another Day & Night Rmx

date: May 5, 2009

Not a bad little trance song, good progression throughout and solid melodies.

Main complaints are in the percussion - the drums are somewhat wishy-washy, which means the track isn't carrying a very strong beat. The lead on top also sounds very thin, and could be EQ'd out so it stands more out over the percussion. Also, kill or rework that crash cymbal - it feels REALLY tacked on.

The rhythmic lead also, in my opinion, sounds a bit too much like the melody lead.

Nice delay setup on your melody there.

Also the track lacks any sort of bass... Perhaps that is why it feels so thin?

Score: 7

"A fantastic composition..."

submission: All The Things You Said

date: November 25, 2007

...Shame you decided to go ahead and make on reason.

Seriously, I promised the last person who used grovemasters rock kit number 1 that I would fork out my left eye the next time I heard that preset used in a track.

And now I'm minus an eye. Thanks a lot.

You really should have gone and found a guitarist and drummer to record this properly. Your composition is great, but you're using the wrong tools for the job.

Score: 9

"HYAKUGOUICCHI"

submission: Solus- For Schala

date: October 24, 2007

Tiny little too much verby verb on that piano, also saxes are terribly hard to make sound good even with the best VSTs, I recommend swapping it in for a flue or clarinet, as what you have written is a bit low for saxes, and listning to the rest of the track, I really don't think the saxy harsh tones suit the breathy, light style of the track anyway.

The writing itself though is wonderful, even if a little bit difficult (though still possible) for piano. I myself am bored of people writing totally impossible to play piano music thinking it's awesome when anyone with a trained ear can hear how difficult it is. This piano writing in this has a lovely waft of 20th century minimalism.

Personal preference here, I absolutely despise pan-pipes, not that anything is wrong with how you implemented them though. All too new-agey for me. Swap em for strings IMO.

Wonderful none the less, 5'd!

Score: 7

"An objective review"

submission: Inside Me.

date: October 20, 2007

Interesting use of sound effects. I'll have to tell you now that this isn't really classical, and placing this in the 'ambient' section was a wise decision.

It has vaguely Nyman-esque filmscore qualities, a subtle minimalism, and from a gamers point of view, with wonderful similarities to Schymans' score for BioShock - though yours is somewhat less harsh on the ears due to it not being event music.

From a technical point of view, there are a few issues, mostly volume related. You did an excellent fade between the bells and piano around 1:19. The string samples seem somewhat sub-par with the rest of the track and let it down a bit, you would do well to replace them or play with the envelope settings on your sampler to create a smoother sound.

Oh, and I especially enjoyed the Cage tribute consisting of total silence between 2:15 and 3:21 - I've had things like that slip by me before!

Score: 10

"Woah."

submission: The Windows Vista Song

date: February 16, 2007

I'm not sure whether it's the way you used the samples or wahtever, but sir, this truely awesome.

Sounds like a sort of upbeat lemon jelly, especially that intro... wow.