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[[dj-Jo] Rave Discord {AP}]

Nice

Very nice beat. Hard and pumping. I can imagine people going crazy to this in a disco.

The part where the song itself gets "crazy" (at around 1:23) sounds a bit out of place, but since this is just a preview maybe in the full version the build up to this "crazy part" is a bit better. Or it sounds better in the whole song than it does in this preview as it ends just after the song went crazy and all over the place.

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[open sound]

Interesting

At first I thought: "Wow, wtf is that supposed to be?", then I read your comment and I was like: "Oh... that's interesting."

It's a pretty good effort actually, you come up with a pretty good melody after the somewhat boring intro. But on the other hand you are very limited with the sounds you can create if you only use fl's opening sound as a basis. ^^

Normally I advise artists to try and create longer songs, but I don't think you could lengthen this without getting too repititve. The only chance I see to add more parts to this is to use other sounds as well. But then the whole idea of the song would be lost.

So, overall this is a very nice submission and quite original. I mean, I've heard windows sounds quite often now, but I didn't hear anything like this where the author only used one base sound for the entire song.

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mikkim responds:

many thanks for the review.

[Halloween (Brutal Mix)]

Nice, but needs better equalizing

The intro is pretty nice, even though the lead guitar is a bit too loud in my opinion. It drowns out most of the background music.
But I like the piano in the intro. It's almost like I only hear it in my subconcious, because I know how the theme sounds. But I don't really hear it with my ears, I just KNOW it is there and I hear the tune in my head... it's very strange, but I like it.

When it comes to the heavy part the sound is pretty raw, but I guess all instruments where played "live" (as in: No drum computers, etc.). I like the riff here a lot. The melody from the halloween theme is gone, but you can still hear the rhythm.

Too bad the drums are so loud. Whenever the hi hat is played it sounds as if the whole song "jumps" there, because no other instruments can be heard for a short while (or maybe that's just because my speakers are too bad).

Towards the end it all gets a bit messy and the sound quality suffers a lot from the fast drums and guitars.

Overall this is a nice remix of the halloween theme, but it needs more work in the equalizing department. ^^

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[Whales [Box-Killa]]

Nice and relaxing

Yes, the tune does sound a little like whale songs. Not the melody, though. But just the sound of the tune has this whale-like touch to it.

The melody of whale songs are quite different (well, at least the ones I heard), but I don't think your goal was to imitate whale songs.

Anyway, enough talk about whales. The tune is pretty nice. I like the echo effect you used here. It is very fitting, especially on the drums. It creates an atmosphere of a very big room where we are standing, which somehow reminds me of the ocean.

I also like the build up of the song. You start out with just a few instruments and then slowly add more to the song, until it is "really" playing.
The outro is done in a similar way. You slowly take away instruments until the song ends. This also sounds nice and makes this song even more relaxing.

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Box-Killa responds:

Hey :D You liked it! I was unsure of whether you would like it or not because it is very... like not the normal sorta thing anyone would here, and its a bit slow. Anyway, glad you liked it :D

[Fable - Rebirth (XB)]

Good

Never played fable, so I don't recognize this melody. ^^ But it sounds nice anyway. Not too sure if this reminds me of a "rebirth", but yeah, it has some sort of "a new beginning" feeling to it. As if something new is created, which is what a rebirth is about, right? ^^

Also, the loop is done very well. It is not noticable when the loop starts again, which is a hughe plus, since this is labled as a "loop".

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Cosmos8942 responds:

Mmm, everybody has different views on where in the game this song originally came from. I'm leaning towards it being in multiple places, thus the reason I agree with all accounts. I stated rebirth because, frankly, I couldn't think of anything and since it was a remix I thought that rebirth somewhat fit that bill. What can I say.

But seriously, I wasn't really trying to loop this piece. Since this was created before the audio portal redesign it was then stuck on here as a loop and I was unable to change it. Mmm.

-Tony-

Ah well, not that big of a deal. Thanks for the review though guy. Sorry about making you wait so long for an answer, I've been strangely busy these last couple weeks.

[SN | Once Again | SN]

Good melodies

I like the intro with that "big strong black man" voice, but sadly the rest of the song sounds a little bit too generic. At least for me. Maybe this is because I'm not really a fan of dance music, so I miss all the nuances this genre has to offer.

Anyway, the melodies are pretty nice and quite catchy. Too bad the background beat sounds a little bit overpowered so the melodies are nearly drowned by the bass.

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SessileNomad responds:

yeah i made this track when i found out that a freaking shit ton of pop songs use this same chord progression, so i decided to hop on the bandwagon

i like the black mane voice too

[SN | Guitar Shredding | SN]

Nice, but would sound better on a real guitar :P

Yeah, I'm not a fan of artificial sounding guitars, because in my opinion they all don't sound very much like a real guitar, but anyway this track is pretty nice. Especially the intro caught me totally off guard. I was expecting something completly different when I read the title "guitar shredding".

It's a nice build up you have until you come to the "shredding" part, which sounds pretty good even though it's not played on a real guitar. ^^

I have to agree with Coop, the drums on the fast shredding part sound a little off. I can't really put my finger on it, but something just sounds or "feels" wrong there.

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SessileNomad responds:

yeah i wish i had a more real guitar synth to use, or better yet, i wish i could really shred like that xD

[-)S(- Sock It To Me v2]

Nice beat

A pretty good song with a very nice very staccato-like beat. The high pitched vocals fit astonishingly well to the very deep bass, even though a little more variation would have been nice here.

The melodies that can be heard later in the song are good as well, but they are too quiet. They are overpowered by the main beat which sounds a bit strange.

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Will responds:

You mean the piano? I can see how that would be drowned out, thanks for noticing that.