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[Mellow-Dee [8-bit]]

Liked the gritty crushed kick however at 1:20 it increases in loudness and throws the mix off a bit.
The main body of the project is great, however it stays great for a couple of minutes before it starts to grate on the ears. It's missing some juicy bass, and I think some Neo Moogish Wendy Carlos type bass would fit in great at this point, to give the entire mix structure and flesh from the ground up. This is just my opinion though.
Overall, enjoyable to listen too. Good stuff mate!

CANDYdisturber responds:

Thanks for the review! Greatly appreciate it.

Bass is pretty hard to do in chiptune since the only real thing i can use is saw/square waves, and since I already had so many going at a time it would've ended up breaking most of the clarity in the leads; but that's definately something I can try and look into.

[Lucid]

I was expecting something slow and dreamy but instead you opened with what can only be described as a pirate type theme.

The sounds are decent, but sound a bit too MIDI for me and un-natural. Which is to be expected if you're solely using FL Studio.

Musically, a bit thin and dry. Nothing that stands out to me. Not quite sure how to describe it. A think you should try deep bare fifths in some low string section and perhaps fuller chords in the high strings? You could even do octaves in a Double Bass section or something. Just fill it our a bit,

The synthesized bass was a pleasant surprise though.

Overall, not bad at all. Looking forward to your next piece!

Mdrums responds:

Thnx for the feedback! I'll try to apply it in a new piece :)

[Cavern of Void]

My honest review?

Extremely disjointed. Sounds are off beat. As if you attempted syncopation (which i believe is an aspect of Blues) but missed by about a demi semi quaver - throwing everything off balance. As a result, I struggled to enjoy it.

Jazz wise? Sure, you throw a few chromatics in but It's not as jazzy as i was expecting. It sounded more like a theme from a platform video game. This is just my opinion though. If you want jazz then use some jazz chords. Maj7ths, A7b13, etc... I can hardly play jazz although I should get into it.

Overall, extremely decent - but not my thing.

Cheers!

zktaichou responds:

Thanks for the review!

I had intentionally made the sounds that way. It is sort of my own musical style. Maybe I have weird musical taste haha. I made this knowing it isn't everyone's cup of tea =)

And you're quite sharp haha. If you check out my other releases, they are indeed oriented more towards video games. Maybe that is due to my upbringing with mostly video games =D

Cheers!

[All will be here [Piano]]

Decent chords. A bit generic for me though although i must admit more creative than most i've seen where. Whether you intended that or not i don't know. I could have sworn I heard a Maj7th somewhere. Then again i am tone deaf. The piano rhythm you have going on starting at 1:29 was... well.... not my thing. Broken chords may have worked better. Or arpegiated. All in all though - not bad at all. Good stuff mate!

Calamaistr responds:

The intention was to make a piano track from the melody of its respective 8 bit predecessor ;)

Thanks for the review :)

[The Silk WIP]

Your subbass created an aura of pain around the entire song and my ears. Way too loud in the mix - it made everything else muddy and overall brought the whole mix down. It doesn't sound like DnB either- i was expecting some 200bpm powerful fast drum loop to explode at some point but it remained very mellow throughout. More chill/ambient in my opinion. The synth strings were basic - nothing special. However the arpegiated synth going on underneath it is quite good. Overall. It has potential.

poinl responds:

Sadly i lost the file to this. Many thanks to your honest crits!

[SMACKA - Get Hypa]

Nice thick sounds. Maybe lower the DB on the hi hats going on just a TINY bit. Overall it was alright, not my sort of thing though.

shesmackshard responds:

thanks for listening. its done though, no edits will be done :)

[few chords]

The chords themselves are alright, not too complex - apart from the random dissonance at the beginning when changing to a different chords. The second part seems very generic, just by listening to the chords and the strumming technique, that's not to say it's bad - it's just not as experimental as I was expecting it. However, I enjoyed listening to it very much, especially the second part of the song at about 1:05. Reminded me of the Kinks. Good stuff mate!

Doumaaa responds:

Hey, thanks for a thought out review. I guess I put it in experimental because I got tired of putting everything into misc and these things just come out of the blue and I record them without preparing anything, so it's kind of an experiment. I sometimes add weird sounds and stuff too :) I'm glad you like the singing part and I'll check out the Kinks, I don't know them much. Thanks for the inspiration.