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[First Musings]

Very nice looping

I like this piece - it's not often that I hear well played classical on here and it does kind of put me in the mind of things like Peter & the Wolf. Are you considering adding any more to these style of piece and perhaps making a series of them?

A great piece that could be used for Legend of Zelda style games, with wide ranging ramifications - you're quite capable of putting this into places where you wouldn't expect to find it - from an apothecary's home to somewhere like a forest scene.

Perhaps a little work from the strings would be of great benefit here. I'd really love to hear what you've got planned for the future.

[Review Request Club]

loansindi responds:

Thanks for the review! I'm hoping to continue in this style, yes. It's definitely a matter of practice.

I'm still trying to finish out this piece. I hope it's going tplaces, though.

[Thank You - BK]

Good pacing

A nicely balanced track, this has a couple of good components blended together well, to produce a nice sound that is capable of getting people to move along to the beat - I'm moving along to this one as I type, so apologies for any typos :P

I love the way that you've added some unusual instruments to the mix - one sounds like a Chinese fiddle, but that could just be a trick of the ears to me. With how it all gets sorted out, there are some great little phases here that keep the listener highly interested and take the track to places that I never really though possible with this genre. Perhaps the only way forward for you are vocals?

[Review Request Club]

Bracksta responds:

thanks for the great review :D! I am glad that you enjoyed the piece. I experimented with vocals not to long ago, but i couldn't find any to put in this track.
i wish i had my own recording station so i could make the vocals myself instead of using royalty free samples :(

[The Storm's Rage (WiP)]

More like easy listening

Firstly, I don't agree that this is heavy metal at all. In fact, I wouldn't even go as far as suggesting that it was Metal, to be honest.

The guitar is too nice and light to be Metal and the drums don't really reflect anything that would sound like this genre, with the exception of a little thrash effort in the middle. Perhaps the whole piece needs to be re-evaluated.

The piano solo was more like a bridge and completely out of keeping with the tune itself. Chalk and cheese starts to ring a bell when that particular bridge came across.

[Review Request Club]

Step responds:

Alright, I guess this'd do better in general rock or something. Well, anyway, thanks for the review :).

[ECHO - Reverb-X (2009)]

A little repetitive

I think there's a few issues with high end static on the sounds of the piano at the end, which is a shame, since you've come up with a decent sounding piece of music, sos tick to it and keep working on your stuff here.

With the way that you get the synths and the other keyboard instrument (horn) to duel one another, one of them plays the notes that were the same as it had just played. It sounds wrong, so having them play different notes would be a great boon to the piece, as otherwise it just sounds too 'samey' and takes away from your good work with the rest of the track.

[Reivew Request Club]

Echo responds:

yeah, i know bout the piano. its not really such a good sample. I've downloaded a couple of new ones, hopefully those'll work better.

I agree with you bout the same melody and i suppose that i could change what they did a bit. I'll try to include it in the revised version [God that's a lot of stuff to include :)]

Anyway, tks for the review...

Darklight17

[Hypno_Shooter [Box-killa]]

WipeOut!

This tune just seems to fit the profile of the zero-g racing game, WipeOut so well, that I'm seriously considering digging out my copy of it to have a quick blast :P

Great pace and a lovely beat that carries the tune on through a series of phases, with some nice sounding instruments to boot. Nothing seems overly dominant and ever instrument that you've thrown in there seems to have had a great chance to shine, which is important.

I'd just suggest that when you put that solo in there that with the keyboards coming along and playing a fast piece of looped music, you give it something a little more 'up there' and give the instrument a real chance to come through as the alternative driving force, as a piano can be :)

[Review Request Club]

Box-Killa responds:

YUP YUP YUP, sorry i got so many reviews... Thanks

Yes to everything, thanks a bunch!

[Industrial Cavern]

True industrial sounds!

A great track! I love the way that you're making most of this track with the backing of real industrial tools and the sounds from factories etc. The hisses of steam or pneumatic presses were brilliant and I'd love to hear more of your work in the Industrial genre.

I think that this is a nice little tune that works well with the fact that it starts slowly and gradually works its way up through the speeds, getting towards something that is workable with, as opposed to going for the fastest that you can achieve.

When you get to the highest tempo of the track, perhaps throw a solo in there, so that it breaks the track up a little - perhaps some noises of engines firing, or something similar - perhaps indicative of part of a construction, or industrial process that has reached conclusion.

[Review Request Club]

PuffballsUnited responds:

I don't think this song would have been as good if the tempo was too fast. Thanks for the review!

[byzentine awesome.]

A little basic

It's not a bad tune, as the Sacale is certainly an unusual instrument. I think that you could have used it more than just playing 2 or 3 different riffs over the start and finish of the tune and putting a bass beat in the middle of them.

Perhaps integration is what you need to practice this time around. Give it the chance to blend the two pieces in together and get it sorted that these two parts compliment each other, rather than making it sound like a recital, by adding the applause.

[Review Request Club]

mikkim responds:

no the instrument is a saxaphone. the melody is in the byzintine SCALE. sacale was an accidental mistyping.

[SN |Pristine| SN]

Nice - Congratulations on 50

I'm not sure about the vinyl record sound that you've got going for the start, middle and end of the piece here, but the drum and bass have a very nice pace that carries on well with the feel of the track. A great tune that I'd expect to hear in a gym, while people are trying to lift weights otherwise.

I love the way that the track winds itself up to start with and then launches into a superfast tempo that you've built up. I'm not sure about continuing with the piano sound when the drum and bass starts - perhaps something a little more befitting would suit. If it's going to be piano, have it graduate to a proper piano sound and take it from there with some real piano tunes, with chords and melody coming along and really smashing the song open with the bass as it's bitch and not the other way around ;)

[Review Request Club]

SessileNomad responds:

yeah thanks to a friend of mine i have a much better technique to create that vinyl sound, so anything after this that uses it should be fine

lol not somthing i would think to hear in a gym, well mabye the drums which i guess is what you were saying, only if it were to a different tune though xD

using the piano as the lead is sorta my style, im not really a fan of most of the DnB i hear where the bass is the lead

thanks for reviewing man

peace out

[PPC2 - K Time]

Great Ambience

This is a nice sounding piece, but the guitar does get a little repetitive after a while. I know that ambience isn't supposed to distract from whatever the main feature of a piece is, but you could make the guitar sound a little different if you're adding variation in the forms of other sound effects. Those sounds aren't as dominant as the guitar, so it does end up with a nice sound, but the repeated guitar seems to drag on too long for me.

I think that you need to take about the last 30 seconds off the end of the track, as it's not really doing anything, just kind of a 'breezy' fade out, which could be brutally cut down to size. Taking a few bits out of the second half of the track will make it a more manageable piece that fits better to what you and flash authors might be looking for.

The reason I suggest cutting it down to size is that it's a 6.4 meg file - you want the animation to look good and do the tune justice, but only leaving an animator 3.6 meg to play with, if they haven't got "special dispensation" to submit a 10+ meg file, it probably won't be able to do your work justice.

[Review Request Club]

Monkeydelic responds:

Thank you :)
I'll attempt to re-record this song in a couple of weeks with a better mic, i'll defineatly make it a bit shorter then, this was really just me wanting to test out some ideas, some worked out, and some didn't, so the finished version will defineatly be shorter.
I'll also work more on the guitar, as i focused completely on the effects, and added the guitar only to have a backdrop.

Thanks for the review :)

Namaste.

[PPC2 - Forest II]

Great melody

A really nice mellow tune, this one. I like the way that it, in combination with the name of the track just brings to the mind a scene of a guy or two, sitting up in a tree, playing a little tune with one another, slowly enjoying the late summer / early autumn weather.

Perhaps it's a little on the slow side and maybe you could have used some sort or higher pitched solo, just to keep things different, as with the length of the tune, the variation is always something that needs to be concentrated on.

I'd suggest that perhaps you use some sort of drum beat within the track, as it started with the knocking on the guitar, but a simple bass drum beat at points in the song would work well.

[Review Request Club]

Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks:)

I'll experiment with drums and other stuff when re-recording, personally i think the tempo is perfect, but it doesn't hurt to check it out.

Thanks for the review :)

Namaste.