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[.:The Final Battle:.]

Was expecting something different

Now, this is a nice song. I like the melodies and the simple but effective drum pattern. I just was expecting a more... fast paced and agressive track maybe. Because the title says "final battle". Your song sounds right now as if this was on a party after the very first battle. ^^
So yeah, spice this song up a bit.

The outro is pretty nice with this little solo at the end.

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GronmonSE responds:

I guess I could have added more stuff and made the climax stronger.

Thanks for the review. It was just a quickie to be honest :P

[Midnight Illusion (DP&KP)]

Intro needs more work, otherwise fine

I really can't see where this is supposed to be "work in progress", heh. This sounds pretty much finished to me.

Only the intro is a bit longwinded and a tad bit boring. About 46 seconds of the same beat with little to no variations in it until the main melody slowly fades in and even then it takes until 1:40 until the intro beat stops and the song slowly picks off. I think you should either cut down the length of the intro or try to make it more varied.

But once the song really starts off we can hear some very nice melodies. I think this would be a good track for a strategy game like Sim City for example, as it is calm and not too distracting.

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Kalapsia responds:

whats with you and games all the time, this is meant for music only and not those gay flash games about anime porn ok

[Race On (WIP) [SFPL]]

Incomplete?

I don't know, this sounds pretty much complete to me. Would be nice to hear that in a racing game, and not only because of the title. ;)

I think this would fit nicely in racing games like Gran Turismo, especially for tracks with lots of forests along the streets.

Only issue with this song is that it is rather short, so a little bit more work in the middle would be a pretty nice thing.

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SFaPiL2 responds:

Ok, it's good to read that the structure is complete (length aside). I'll focus on spicing up the middle a bit and making it longer then.

Thank you Haggard ^__^.

[The Ice Queen's Palace]

Cold...

Yeah, this sounds very cold. But what can you expect from a song that's called "Ice Queen's Palace", right?

I agree with SessileNomad, though. The song is a bit too quiet, there are parts where you can hardly hear the instruments, except for when you turn up your speakers of course. But normally my speakers are set to a volume level where I can hear everything else just fine, so I think your song needs to be a tad bit louder.

Aynway, the melodies sound pretty nice and as I've already stated, very cold. It just all needs to be a bit louder. :)

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sarias responds:

I can hear it just fine? Its from the poem fire and Ice and I took the ice's perspective of course its cold lol :)

[Welcome to W0RLD]

Nice 8-bit sounds

The intro is a bit boring. You stay too long on one beat there before you change it. After about 24 seconds the song gets a lot better when the other insturments set in. It takes away a bit from the boringness of the beat we listen to the time before.

However, the main melody that starts at around 0:45 is very good. It's catchy and it sounds pretty happy. It also kept me listening.

The break at 1:25 is a bit abrupt, maybe a fade would work better here (fade the beat in and the other beat we've been listening to before out).
Same goes for when you change back to the other beat.

The looping is done very well. At first I didn't even realize the song was starting over. :)

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PuffballsUnited responds:

I like the part when the song changes rhythm. I can see why people would think it's too abrupt, and I'm not quite sure if I think so or not.

[No Parking]

Generic at first, but better later on

At first I thought that this sounds pretty generic, as if I heard this a bilion times before. But once the melodies set in it got much better. I even found myself moving a bit to the melody. :)

I also like that you put some breaks from the main beat in there, especially the first one at 1:12 sounds very nice. I was hoping that it would go on a bit longer, but no such luck. :(

Anyway, this is a very nice song, good job!

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sumguy720 responds:

I usually start my songs with something generic, just because I usually write them on the fly, and it's just to get me in the mood for the chord progression. Maybe this is something I should change... I'll look at some more professional music and see how they start their songs, perhaps I'll gain some insight.
Glad you like the break at 1:12, I was sort of nervous as to whether or not it fit in well.
Thank you for the review!

[First Musings]

Sounds like music for a trailer

And I mean that sort of trailer for movies, not like caravans. ^^

I nearly expected to see some movie scenes popping up on the screen for an upcoming animated movie like "Shrek" or "Up".
The background beat just reminds me of some trailers I saw...

The strings are pretty good here as well. The melodies are pretty catchy and even now after the 8th or 9th time I listen to this while writing the review and doing other things the song doesn't get boring. It still sounds fresh and delightful .

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loansindi responds:

Thanks for the review, I'm glad you liked it!

[Thank You - BK]

Good

I think this would work really well in a strategy game, like Command & Conquer (you know, those kind of futuristic strategy games). The song isn't too distracting and it gives the player something nice to listen to while he is playing the game.

You have some very good melodies in this song, I especially like the one we can hear towards the end of the song (at around the 3 minute mark). It is catchy and really driving, "forcing" the player to play faster and do something or else his opponent will just crush him.

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Bracksta responds:

lol, that is an awesome take on the song, i never thought of it that way! thanks so much haggard for the review it is always appreciated :D

[The Storm's Rage (WiP)]

Guitars don't sound too good

This is a really nice attempt, but as a metal fan and guitar player myself I really hate the guitar sound. It's just too artificial. Also, there is some noise in the background when the guitar plays the main riff that is really annoying (it can be heard at 0:27 and other occasions throughout the song). I guess it's from the drums, but it really doesn't sound that good.

Also, I was expecting some thrash metal after the intro. I mean, some hughe storm is going on, then "1, 2, 3, 4" on the hi-hat... and then I was just expecting some more brutal music. I don't know, maybe because bands that play that kind of stuff like to count in their songs with four hits on the hi-hat. ^^

Anyway, enough criticism, now to the good things: Wow, this is your first attempt? It's a quite good attempt, even though I wrote two long paragraphs of what I don't like right at the beginning. The song is well structured and even contains a nice solo plus the main riff sounds very catchy.
Also, the drums play some really good stuff.

The outro needs some more work, I think. The song kind of just ends there. Maybe end it with a short drum solo, those kind of outros work most of the time pretty well. :)

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Step responds:

Thanks for the review! It's true about those gutars. I haven't heard one electric guitar sample which sounds even close to an electric guitar. Probably the annoying sound you were hearing was one of my guitar samples, lol :P. Either that or it was a wind sound effect or something, since I tried using loads of weather sound effects around the song. I see what you mean by the stuff after the intro, now that I'm hearing it again it does skip from loud to soft too suddenly. Anyway, thanks for the compliments, and about the outro... well, I may try a drum solo, but it's not going to turn out that well probably because I'm not that amazing at percussion. Thanks again for the review :D.

[ECHO - Reverb-X (2009)]

Good song

I don't think I've ever listened to the original, but this doesn't reall matter too much. This is a very nice sounding song. I like the trumpet very much as there aren't too many songs in the audio portal that make use of this instrument.

Maybe the background beat is a bit too repititve, but I don't think listeners will pay too much attention to that, as the background beat just stays where it belongs to, in the background. So, the melodies do the main work for this song and they are very diversified, so the song doesn't get repititve too fast.

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Echo responds:

tks man. I always wanted to put a trumpet in somewher, who knew it'd be in a dance song :)

Thanks for the detail you put in, once i'm gonna continue work on the revised version, keeping your review in mind. thanks ;)

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Btw, diversified isn't exactly a word lol...