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[[ fl core ]]

great melody

drums sound a bit strange with all that reverb, but i like it

boney-man responds:

yes, in retrospect, the drums sound terrible. lol

[DUNE (V1.2)]

Outstanding

Yeah, the whole song completely outstanding. The introduction sucked me in, so I decided to listen to the whole thing. This is some seriously nice work since not only does it have an atmospheric feel to it, but it's danceable and orginal. I suggest maybe working on that drum build-up a bit more, since it doesn't seem to be all that powerful. Also, at the beginning, I hear faint cracks when I listen to the sub-bass with my headphones.

SREvol responds:

thanks for the great review, i'll revist the drum break at the beggining and maybe add a more electro kick into the main break to make it a bit harder. i'll probably gie it another 5 bpm cause its a tad slow for stepping. the cracks could be from the reduced quality of the song because it was very big and i had to pull it in.

i might also run it through the new cubase when i get it and hightn the vocals to give it a tad more epic feel :)

[When Drums Collide]

Lacks a Lot

It's nice to hear someone who can do breaktrance other than Paragon, so I'll give you an extra star for that. However, this song lacks a lot. I know it's just "two synthesizers," but you could have added a lot more. There really needed to be a buildup and some other instruments. Maybe if the frequency automation at the beginning was longer and there were a few more sounds, it would be better.

Grandvision responds:

Hey, listen to the song again, I edited it a bit. I think it's better now. Ain't it?

I know what you mean, and thank you for mentioning Paragon, he is a great music creator.

[FL studio 8]

Very Stylish for a Dance Song

Most dance songs on NG are not nearly as stylish as this... I really disagree with what Vibestyler wrote, because it's probably just his own speakers that are rubbish. My speakers aren't that great, and I can hear everything perfectly.

You really seem to know how to make a powerful bass, creative arp (I mean the "wee" type of sound, which sounds like an arp), and a simple, but affective beat. I just thing that some sections of the song lack a lot...

VULC4N responds:

very morale boosting compared to the previous review lol.

again...this is me just messing around; no serious effort, at all, was put into this. i wudve eqd it had i more time.

thanks for reviewing! cheers.

[Nub&Scribbler - Our Mistakes 1]

Drumfunk

I appreciate someone who actually does drumfunk on NG. I like hearing different versions of drum and bass. I was hoping for something other than a simple chopped Amen, but I think the piano and the guitar are very nice. It would lead more people to think this is a "drum and bass" song if you actually had a sub-bass or something.

Scribbler responds:

Drumfunk eh? Never heard of it. It's not really drum and bass per se but NG doesn't have many choices so in DnB it goes. Thanks for the review!

[Lucovic - Death Memorial]

Not Sad

I'm not trying to ruin your streak of great reviews, but I really feel this isn't a sad song at all. It's just simply like that. You claimed that this was supposed to be sad since it is a "memorial", yet I don't see how in anyway it is. I would imagine a sad song to have a piano or something and maybe start out slower. The strong bass you used in this doesn't really fit, in my opinion.

Work on compressing your bass some more. The bass also could probably use some distortion to make it sound more interesting. Also, try to use the Parametric EQ to change the way things sound. The pad at the beginning is just in its default state, and you could do so much more to make it sound better.

Lucovic responds:

First of all, I totally agree with what you said.

if u dont think it sounds sad, its ok with me. it sounds sad in my opinion and if u dont think so. its ok with me. second. the bass was intended to be simple but hard. im not THAT skilled with FL studio right now. so i might listen to your advice and modify my songs a little bit. the pads are indeed standard, only pitched. it is not modified due to the same reason as the bassline.

Still thanks for the advice u gave me. it'll help me alot in the future =D

[Oldskool]

Just FL Studio Drum Loops

What is this other than a collection of FL Studio drum loops? I don't want to seem like a bad person, but this is one of the easiest things to make and you should have actually used the Fruity Slicer and made some of your own patterns with the drum sounds instead of just leaving them how they are. You could have also added some filters to make them more interesting.

I'm not even going to get to the actual drum and bass genre part of this, since it's very obvious that there is no bass at all. It's clear what you were doing here and I don't mean to seem like a jerk for giving you a low rating, but there's nothing to this even as a real song.

Lost-Wisdom responds:

Mind the year this track was created. And also mind the description. "Simple rhythms". Yes, I used the preset drums from FL Studio as more of a test on what I could make. Mind me, I can be much better.

[Tetris Hip-hop]

Clean

Clean is how I describe this, mainly because of how all these simple sounds just flow so well. I normally dislike the use of those FL Studio drum loops because they are so overused, but in this case, I feel that they fit in perfectly.

The fact that this is a Tetris remix gets my respect for you. It's hard to get all the notes right, and you actually managed to almost completely fit a song like that into a hip-hop song. I could almost picture this with vocals.

Even for a loop, I feel there should be some sort of build up in it. However, it's pretty decent how it is. I don't think you really need to work on anything, but I'd like this to be just a bit slower maybe. It's sad how the audio portal has people who don't appreciate the real value of some songs, so I voted five.

STU-PIDASO responds:

thank you.

i was going to program my own drums, but "effecting" a loop seemed to fit so well.

i have loved the tetris tune for so long....some day i will record me playing it on guitar.

thanks for the well written review.

[[ turn around ]]

Not One of Your Best

This really isn't one of your best drum and bass songs, but it's alright. For some reason, the bass sounds slightly annoying to me and there doesn't seem to be too much of a variety of different things here. I understand that there are some really interesting sounds, but I don't feel like this is all that spectacular.

However, I'm giving you an eight out of ten because I can picture this fitting into a game very well.

boney-man responds:

thanks for the review

[[ odyssey ]]

Superb

I love the pad and the sub-bass rhythm for the beginning. The weird beep sound is really unique and is a great touch to this song. I also really like how you make such strong and affective build ups; I need to learn how to do that. This song has some strange feeling to it and that goes with the title, yet I'm still not sure about it. This is a superb song. I feel that Pyromaniac was better, but I still enjoyed this.

boney-man responds:

You use FL 7 right? Because if you want, we could collab sometime and that would also help you learn some stuff. I wouldn't mind.

Thanks a lot, I actually made the beep sound by accident but it fit so well so I left it.