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[Hark!]

clipping :S

this would be fine if you turned down the master volume a good 6 or 7 dB :\

clips like a mofo but underneath the idea and the arrangement is quite sound. has a bit of cheesy early-90s contemporary vibe which is actually very apt.

yeah besides the insane amount of clipping this is fine.

[People wont like this rmx]

jumpstyle yay

very nice bass drum and synth lead! i like how you tuned the bassdrum which is something a lot of jump producers i've heard forget or don't know how to do.

When the bassdrum isn't cuts out and the crashes come in you can really hear the compressor sucking up all the dynamics. I dunno if people like that sound but I'd go for a more subtle compressor. I'd roll off some of the super-highs off of the main leads at like 15 or 16Khz too, they have a bit of a nasty hiss about them.

Pyroific responds:

mmkay,

1. it's nu-style hardstyle, NOT jumpstyle.
2. there is no compression on the kick.
3. i do have much treble on the lead, so i may tone that down.
4. thx for reviewing.

[ParagonX9 - Metropolis [8]

the 32 bit processors broke my heart

This would sound about a billion times more authentic without the stereo ping pong delays and the hard-panned double tracking!

The song itself isn't bad. A whiff of something very familiar, but so is most chiptune stuff.

[Fortissimo]

job well done

the piano sounds good, warm lows but it retains the brightness in the high register which is great... i think you should have sequenced timing "errors" which are more like slight offsets so it sounds more human... you can actually here the piano sound phasing in some parts lol...

good score and a nice sound otherwise. :)

SoulRed12 responds:

Ahaha...yeah, I'm using GB and I'm still learning how to edit the instruments to sound good, etc.

Thanks for the review, I appreciate it. I think next time I'll try recording each part all the way through and se how that sounds...should fix some dynamics discrepancies too, as well as adding some "human"-like errors as you suggested. Thanks again. ^_^

[[Intro]]

so-so

an intro really should build up a mood and an atmosphere a lot better than this. i was left twiddling my thumbs for the first 30 seconds or so.

i think this sort of intro could be appropriate for DJ-ing in theory but in practice both your drum samples and the arrangement of the percussion are dreadfully bland so it wouldnt make for an interesting transition during a set at all.

[Short yet Sweet]

heh

interesting first song... you have a nice theme melody and its not a straight 4/4 beat which is nice for a change. arrangement is pretty bland and the mix isn't great but yeah, first song and stuff.

it does sound like a first attempt mainly cause of the preset sounds and stuff. obviously after you start using the program for a while and get your hands on more third party synths, samples and effects the stuff you make starts sounding a lot better. keep it up dude :)

[Rhemdonesian]

interesting

synths and stuff are... interesting, but the mix is painfully loud and it clips a whole lot. you could put a default compressor preset on the master bus and turn the master volume down the smallest amount and it would solve the clipping but the best solution would be to mix things a bit more subtly...

the loop lacks a coherant theme and structure too, which is a shame... sounds like the middle section of some progressive epic thingy... idk...

CardboardBox responds:

yea...it does kinda go off beat...I'm making another song right now in the working, it should turn out better than my others.

[The Japanese Spy]

japanese amen break

ahe... amen break is well placed :)

interesting little loop. i likey.

[N.Sndwch-Happi XMasXore]

hehe

christmas-ey pad synth is well too loud and i think it's making the already uber-compressed mix sound a bit messy. questionable percussion arrangement too, but this is well funny so... you know what disregard the last two comments :P

christmas hardstyle... awesome.

NickSandwich responds:

I'm not sure which pad synth you mean, nor am I really sure what you mean about the percussion, but thanks for the 10 anyways =D
I'm glad you liked it.

[Truce]

atmospheric

I've been playing Dark Chronicle lately (called Dark Cloud 2 in the states) and the first half is very much like that soundtrack. I like the introduction of the synth, but the accordion gives it quite a unique touch.

Surely not a real accordion though? A decent soundfont but not a real recording of accordion noodlage? Mix was too bass heavy imo, I'd say roll off the low frequencies on the pads at about 80Hz... You could probably compress the accordion a bit or fix the velocity of the notes in your sequencer if it is indeed an accordion soundfont.

nice composition overall :)