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[The Plague [MAC8]]

i dont understand

why you dont recreate synths and basses like you did in anastome. this is the closest youve come but its still nohing close to the one you used in that song.

Koriigahn responds:

The worst thing you can do is use old synths you've created in previous projects, i try to like not stick to using the same things over and over again as it eventually turns into a bad habit :P

The songs on my myspace have similar if not better basses than Astatome :P So check that out if you can!

Cheers for tthe review!!!

[Cough Syrup]

haha questions

its a standard dnb loop. you didnt even change it. the drums are absolutely 100% not yours. but the synths espec the squeaky one are awesome. 7 for them, 0 for the drums (they got sooooo annoying)

Navarone666 responds:

I used an FL DnB loop and chopped it up, its their samples, my pattern.
Thanks though.

[<+R+> Requiem of Heroes]

gee dude

you cant have a sampled amen break the WHOLE way through, sure you cut them up but eh, you need to show something else. and this amen break is pretty much the same amen break that has been used since the late 70's. good old "the winstons" on making this back in 58 eh?

Rawrthaas responds:

i appreciate the reviews on a bunch of my songs man, but criticism on a submission over a year old does me no good

[Krater (Remix)]

it's not bad, better than ultima legion

do what a itold you with the 2 leads and it wont be as muffled, also get rid of the snare.

do what i told you with the snare as well but get rid of the snare you used all together, the kick drums db is too high and needs its frequency altered, as you can hear it is just a bang over the top of the song, sidechain the kick so when it hits the leads db lowers and you'll get a more epic sounding drum. the initial lead at roughly 26 seconds is nice i like it, but notice the snare is drowned out? that's because the frequency of the lead and snare and kick is too close together. changing the frequency of the lead will alter it a little bit so i advise sidehcaining the lead and changing the frequency of the snare and kick

:)

Phantasmagoria13 responds:

sounds good. I think I am beginning to understand how things work a bit better now. I will do these things and upload a revised version once I make the changes. Thanks for reviewing this!

[-=LJC=- untitled 0708 REMIX 1]

yeah it is missing something

tell me what operating system and core program you used and i'll pm you with some tips one how to fill the background

LJCoffee responds:

heh-heh... Since when would my DAW affect what's needed? :D *grin...

OK then... basic overview of system and workflow:
I'm running Vista
The psuedo-orchestraic part was made with Reason4
That can be found here: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/157758
"-=LJC=- untitled sub 0708" - the .RNS for that is posted up if you're at all interested, the URL is in the description.

I was planning on dropping Reason altogether and re-creating the background using Kontakt but I just haven't gotten to it yet. Kontakt, imo, has a much better sample set and can be far more expressive than the R4 stock orkester library. No contest really... I was just lazy... didn't feel like tweaking midi all that much so....

Everything from Reason was dumped out and loaded into AcidPro to sequence things and chop the percussion into it.

Again, the percussion should probably be swapped out as well. I'm not crazy about the kits used in the breaks but as with the rest - I was lazy about it. :) Would be easy enough to replace though.

Originally, there was a super dirty reese and a sub-bass (Patched together with Massive and Zebra2 respectively) in there but I felt that it was just a bit heavy so I stripped all of that out. Like I mentioned to the last reviewer, I think I should have removed the reese but left the sub - that's probably where I over-corrected things.

The whole thing is then fed through Reaktor 5's FlatBlaster 2 which is loaded as a VST effect on the master buss in Acid and dumped out as a .WAV

I generally use Audition for any final mastering tweaks and MP3 conversion.

Any suggestions at all though, will be appreciated.

Cheers mate

[Nub&Scribbler - Our Mistakes 3]

to discomcdisco

why isn't this a realsong?

reminds me of halo in a blender. you bring the best out of nubbinownz

not your best in my opinion but still pretty good. guitar sounded a bit weaker than usual and the drums weren't as fluid in their glitching.

the overall sound seemed a bit duller than usual, check up on that. also the guitar whailing before 2.00 was a bit off

9 and 4

Scribbler responds:

The sound is a bit weaker, you are correct and that was my fault on the mixing. Any new tracks from me and nubz should be sweetah! Thanksfor the review.

[Explicit ft. Kellz : Talk Shit]

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not bad, not a fan of hip-hop but it's allright, reminds me of my countries aussie hip hop

J-Kellz responds:

that first dude is australian, im the second

[MML Bruno Boss battle]

OK i said i'd review another

and again, i see nothing special. The drums are the first thing i'll talk about. The snare sounds like a standard snare that you'd find in any fruity loops installment. The orchestra hits are the same. The hi hats have some work on them and are attempting to have hi and low pass eq work but have come off too wispy. the ride that is trying to reinforce the hi hats distracts the eq work though. the kick is too soft and is drowned out by the eqing on the hi hats. the organ-ish back chords are sound like they are a 16th off beat and are too thin. the lead is the similar to the chords and again is too thin. the lead has some good composition riffs though and would probably be best displayed if it had an influx or automated decay.

when responding to this, don't be hating like you were last time, i did not 0 bomb you on this song or the last one. don't try the whole i'm better than you thing either, take my advice from someone more experienced and talented.

if you are using a simple program like fruity loops try buying cubase for a more professional and custom feel, if you use something like acid pro or cinescore for composition effects it would up the sounds greatly. also you should find an individual drum machine or program so your eq-ing isn't drowning out your other sounds. i use native instruments for bass, reason 4.0 for strings and effect, cinscore for compositions and i share my drums between real ecoustics, native instruments, and reason 4.0. All of this is put together on decks and keyboards and a mixing table.

vote - 3, score - 4.

CKEY

Phantasmagoria13 responds:

Now THIS is a helpful review. If the last one were anything like this my feelings probably wouldn't have been hurt.

Thank you for the advice. After reading this I do think I can do better next time.

[Nub&Scribbler - Our Mistakes 1]

asrseas

miscellaneous, not dnb

nice song though, even though it's a simple guitar synth, you hit the right notes

Scribbler responds:

Ah, I'd say it's a little more than miscellaneous. And it's not a guitar synth, sorry to disappoint, it's actually a real guitar (I bet you don't get many of those anymore eh?) Thanks for the review though.

[Ultima Legion]

too standard

weak and doesn't have any custom feel, sounds like standard sounds, not edgey not hard hitting. sorry dude, i hate it :S

Phantasmagoria13 responds:

fair enough...I'll keep this in mind next time. If you know anything about FL studios, maybe you could give me some tips. Im not that good with it yet.