ohhh yeah.
more bass?! no need for that at all.
a little less wet mix on all the delays definitely. it all seems a bit messy at times. maybe automate the wet mixes so that there's less delay during busier sections like 0m08s-0m47s?
the pitched-down breakbeats sound fucking ace man.
very nice track, less delay plzkthx :)
quite good!
Quite a nice score for the most part. This all has an early nobuo vibe, like something from FFIV or V
Piano is a little drab, like the other guy said. I didn't like the solo melody sections, none of them really felt like they were necessary because they didn't go for very long at all. See if you can elaborate on them a bit.
I'm not going to let the soundfonts change my score, but I think you should really consider getting some good orchestral samples because the ones you're using aren't great. EastWest have some very good ones and so do Edirol, but you'll have to pay out your ass for the more complete packages because they are incredibly expensive. For piano you should check out Pianoteq, it's a modelled piano with incredibly versatile tweaking options.
Keep it up, this is quite nice :D
The vibe and sound could be put somewhat in that genre yeah, I played a lot of Zelda as a kid, and it the vibe/sounds are probably a bit inspired by that too.
I'll try working more on the piano. I wish I had played a piano when I was younger, but one can always learn.
Thanks for the tips and response, I'll try looking into more samples/refills. There are a lot of free reason refills, so maybe I can find some good ones there.
Jib
slick!
i hear a lot of binary star influence in this, not just the beats but also the lyrics. big compliment coming from me cause i love those guys.
the chorus double tracking is a little bit messy, i think if you put the lower voice down in volume a bit more it would sound a good bit cleaner. there should be more double tracking throughout the song just to put a bit of emphasis on key words.
having said this i like this a lot, i'll check out your other song :)
Thanks a lot! XD Honestly, I have yet to peep Binary Star, but now I actually have motivation to.
And thanks for the feedback, this still isn't done so I can definitely implement your suggestions. Just a little preview for some feedback so I can make this the best I can.
-Doc D.
hmmm okay then
i'm not going out of my way to be an asshole but i think i should let you know now that this is going to be a pretty harsh review.
the tune seems to just be random notes from the chromatic scale thrown together haphazardly. dischordance can be wonderful in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing with it but to me this sounds as if you need to take a step back and sit down with some music theory books and start learning from square one. maybe that's not the case. maybe you have a pattern of intervals and you were going for a number of slight key changes in relatively quick succession. or you were going for something else entirely. whatever you were going for with that
there's no real concrete rhythmic pattern here. its just bland chugging with no accented beats or syncopation until like 23 seconds in and even then its like you clicked notes in at random times and thought "that sounds good enough i can't be bothered trying harder to make this sound coherant".
do you play guitar irl? if so you should record that instead of using fl slayer. if not, idk try making a really thin, wirey synth without any detuning and pass that through a lot of distortion and then a combo simulator. it won't sound anything like/as good as a real guitar but it'll be better than fl slayer by a factor of 1000.
now with the drums. uhh... i mean drum... come on man, you put absolutely 0 effort in for that doof-ing kick drum and you know it. i don't even know where to begin with this... i guess the first thing you need to do is listen to some heavy metal and analyze the drum playing and try emulating those patterns in fl. in fact analyze everything and emulate it before attempting to do anything original.
sorry for the length of the review. i'm also sorry i couldn't find any redeeming qualities in this whatsoever. nothing personal but this is really just bog standard listening.
How can the person below me find redeeming qualities, and you can't?
Asshole.
Also, have I made Heavy Metal before?
NO.
This is my first time.
Don't expect to hear a masterpiece.
Asshole.
i like this
very relaxed and easy going. the guitar sound is almost hawaiian sounding, hehe. guitar is played very smoothly and timed well too :)
your vocal tone is nice, the melody suits it well.
i thought this could've benefited with a bit more variation in the chord progression and dynamics. i also noticed a lot of hiss in the recording so i don't know what's up with that.
quite nice :)
yeah hi. its been soo long sine i checked the site. SO i tried to clear some noise and hisses from the recording. how is it. thanks for the comments btw.
that flippin' piano...
I really think the piano should be far more dynamically varied, especially when it does that fast pedal point melody from 1m03s onwards. It becomes a really ugly wall of sound in that section.
It also sounds like you added a compressor to the piano after the reverb. Do not want! In fact, I would never compress a piano at all unless I was after a really grimey, old radio sound or something.
If you used cheesier, old school analogue drum sounds I would accept this as new wave.
lol look at my comments i put it in new wave simply because i didnt know where to put it, but since i wish not to get more shyte about it, im changing this to dnb
um, i did not compress the piano...sooooo...
alot of your lingo isnt makin sense to me, but i will try to decifer as best i can
peace and thx for honest review
ehhh...
that main arpeggiating synth lead is obnoxiously loud, it should sit somewhere halfway between the volume it starts at and where it fades in to now. yeah, you might want to fix the timing on the doubling lead it completely kills this.
percussion and stuff is nice. that "Soft and louder" sound could be achieved by eq-ing a wide, sweeping dip of around 3 or 4 dB between 1.5Khz and 3Khz on the kick drum, followed by some sidechain compression. if you use FL Studio put a fruity send plugin right after the eq and put your compressor on one of the inserts, that way you can add another compressor (meaning a different plugin) after the fruity send, so you have the characteristics of both compressors at once.
this is pretty clearly not new wave, btw. probably more trance than anything.
How the hell did this get in new wave it was probably my stupid brother. Anyways thanks for the suggestions and when i figure out what they mean ill definitley edit this song. and whats a doubling lead you mean the arp? Thanks for the review!
a little disappointing...
the 32 bit drums and spatial effects (reverb and shit) were a big let down since i was expecting a bit of raw 8 bit goodness in its true form. despite that, this is pretty cool. it stays fairly true to the original.
dragonforce solos are a bastard to transpose because its just li or totman fucking around on the fretboard and not thinking things through properly. my advice would be to just take it one bar at a time and maybe even timestretch the original song so you can hear the notes played slowly.
fun
the loop does flow you tard, albigs. it skips a little because flash is shit at syncing sound properly.
fun little loop. quite good for what it is.
none too shabby
you should whack the default compressor on the master bus and pull the value on the fader to a little under 79% cause there's some mad clipping when you start to lowpass filter everything.
I very rarely use reverb on bass drums or bassey instruments in general, but if you leave it on here then i'd suggest pulling the low cut value to somewhere like 500Hz. reverbing low frequencies can make an otherwise clean mix start to get very messy.
did you had extra treble to those hats? they seem extra thin and toppy.
i really like the warm pads and the wide bassline. could use a fair bit more variation on the whole but this is some nice ambient tech backing music at the moment.
keep it up :)
Yeah, true.
The hats were a special pack and I added a special FX to them and stuff. A stereo enhancer. Some sort of EQ, I'm sure. I dunno. I toy around with it a lot.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, though.
used to put a lot of music on here and then i stopped but maybe i will start doing that again one day hehe
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