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First off, it had the right feel to it, very oriental. The flute was way overpowered by the other instruments, which spoiled the melody. The drum rhythm was perfect, it had the oriental upbeat, which was good for the track.
Many a time i've seen tracks like these with rock drum riffs.
ok i'll work on it summore thanks for the review
Ooo.
Ok, the first strings part was SEVERLY clipped. Turn the volume down on them, its distorting the sound. The randomness was good, sort of pulsey music as opposed to techno, and i loved your bass.
thx for the reveiw your the first person to do that. i wish i got ratings like this on my flash work
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The first synth sounded like my toy keyboard i got in 1994... scary. anyway, its got an... interesting shape to it. Drums were too limited, SNARE REQUIRED :P. There was a weird lazery sound that had no pitch. Cant really describe it, but it was too loud, was drowning out melody, and the pitchbend on the late synth goes out of time with the music, which is annoying.
Yeah, the synth really needs some work, but id rather just start something else than fix this song (since it aint that great, the only part I really like comes at the end). Ah, yes the "lasery sound" actually I know exactally what your talking about, and I would agree it has no reason to be there. But again I dont care to fix it when I could just start on something better. Thanks alot for your feedback!!!
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Second from the top of the list and already has exactly 500 downloads and a score of 5.00?. cheating detected ;) Acids good, but it isnt THAT good :P
(oh well. this is the audio portal. NOBODY CARES)
To the track.
First off, dont put the drums just on one channel, and the riff you choose was far too fast for the guitar, and it repeted an awfull lot, it needed fills. The guitar was good though, ahh the joys of acid, it would probably sound better without the drums at this state. At least add a bass, that would make it sound rather spiffy.
Try to refrain from spamming the download link. Its pissing annoying, and really dosnt help you because it dosnt give you an idea of how many have downloaded your track.
I didn't download a bunch. Ha, I'll bet it was my friends (cheating). Anyhoo, thanks for your review. I'll make my next track more "bassey"!
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First off, the chord pattern was musicaly completely wrong. You just cant use a pattern like that, you need to suspend the top note of the first chord or it goes out of its key. The tune has a nice feel and shape to it, the hi-hat later on is a bit piercing, try fuzzifying it, you never know what you'll get ;)
Ok erm... yeh i appreciate your tips but i didnt use chords i used single notes and yeh i could probs change the hihat as it is the same all the way through but thanks for you review dude.
BoneBoy
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Ok, first of all, the soundfonts were cheesy but i dont expect theres much you can do about that... but i'd advise you at least add some reverb, that normaly helps things along. The drums were playing everything but a jazz rhythm. It needs a ride cymbal in there somwhere, and if you're going to use brushes for one bit, you have to use them for the whole kit or it sounds rather odd. It sounded awfully midi-portish, but you might just be good at midis. which is understandable, people have accused me before, and i could tell bits were in there which wernt before.
Keep doing what you're doing.
thx 4 ur insightful review, Khuskan, and ur constructive criticism
i'll keep that in mind next time
thx 4 ur 8
laterz
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Well first off, you need to put a larger spread of instruments. I've made quite a few tracks like this, what i do is make the strings track first, then break it up between seporate instruments such as violin section, violas, chello and contrabass, this gives it more of a wide sound, and makes it sound more realistic. On that i'd also reccomend NEVER use synthesized chior, it sounds tacky, and it ruined the feel of the song when they got too high and played double notes, it would probably sound better if you replaced them with a mixture of strings and brass and prehaps the odd flute. Drums were well done, they had the right feel and wernt too dominating. Nicely done both ways, hope this one gets used sowmhere
Woah, this is my best review yet.
It actually tells me what i should do to improve it.
Well, The choir is only because i really dont have acess to a real one, if you know what i mean.
And I do agree it sucked when it went too high. Anyways, I will try to follow some of your suggestions in later songs.
-Zeth-
Well.
It was a nice attempt, but you over-did it on so many levels. The melody was completely drowned out by what i can only describe as a synthesizer with a serious overload on the noise oscilator, and from what i heard, it didnt hold the basic structure of the zelda theme, it starts with the melody then the base line, not the other way round.
Nice try though, and it was very... varied.
Thx a lot.
At least theres some people here who respect what I do.
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Originality:
Sounded like a simple midi port to me, so not very high up there.
Clarity:
TOO QUIET, but despite this, still very clear.
Diversity:
Nice use of instruments, but you have to remember, music made for old consoles wasnt made around real-instrument physics. If you want to make a song sound really good from a midi of an old console song, you have to amend parts that are impossible to play on the instrument you're patching them to. For example, the drum snare played twice each upbeat, which is ok, but since its been made with a drum machine, its the same sound twice really fast, which sounds lame.
Effort:
Its a nice port, and in its nature very uesful, but ofcourse, it sounds like a midi import, so it might not all be your work.
Well, as for originality and that, it IS a cover, not an enterpretation. I'm not sure what clarity means, but if you mean the amplitude it's normalized to 0 db, cd-standard that is.
I didn't quite understand the critique of the instrumentalisation - the idea was to make a cover version with a pretty standard rock setup, guitar, bass, drums and synth... nothing impossible to play in there. The drums would be pretty easy to play if that's what you meant, but sadly I don't have the equipment to record drums... so drum machine it is. I think the double snare-hit is pretty funky actually! And of course, that's how the original is played...
Oh well, thanks for the comment!
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