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[vk819 - U.N. Owen Was Her?]

I'm sorry...

I like the general composition of it in terms of the piece, but man I'm just not feeling the instruments, and the percussion doesn't seem to go well with it for me. Could use a heavy bass drum in it in my opinion, but other than that and maybe changing the synths so they don't sound so harsh would be all I can offer for advice, or opinion.

Ookami-Kun responds:

Aye, the synths and drums are just based on presets for now, I'm gonna tweak the shit out of them. This was just an attempt to get the composition and harmonies right. I'll definitely work on the harshness though, thanks.

[Industrial - Acid]

Surprising...

It's a bit lengthy and the progression could've been built up a tad bit faster. I gotta say I like the use of the synths and percussion, though at times it seemed like the kick in the first minute would almost sound muted, only on occasion. The Synths reminded me of Orbital, and the Guitar and percussion reminded me of The Crystal Method, so it was a really cool mix of sounds to hear. It wasn't something that sounded too great to me, but I'm definitely interested in seeing similar stuff, maybe with a bit more of a low bass or something that I don't really know how to express with any word other than heavy.

[Torque]

Well...

Just not feeling it. I can't really explain too well. The kicks just seem rather quiet and just sound unfitting to the melody you have, which to me seems rather pretty at first, and for some reason seems like it would make a good ambiance. Oh well... Not too sure how to offer any advice, and I'm sure it's the way you prefer it as it is.

DiroNomer responds:

Thats fine. I agree with you about the kicks, and I do think this melody would go with another beat. Thanks for reviewing

[All Around Synths]

A bit bland to me.

I know it's ambient, and what I like about it is how it seems kind of 8-bit video gamey, and at the same time completely not, but it still comes off bland to me. Not fond of how it feels. It comes off as incomplete, and could use some harmonious scales, or even a quieted/filtered drum pattern, so that it fits the song well by being soft. Heck for some reason I can see this somehow turning into a bit of a hip-hoppish beat. Odd. Hope you add some more to it.

jaburuw responds:

Thanks for reviewing!
I´ll take your considerations in a next song,

Best regards,
Rafael

[Evil Beat]

Very cool unique sound in this.

I like what ya got going on. What kinds of synths did you use, and how did you get the filter to transition so smoothly?

guitaraddict4791 responds:

Thanks for the review.
I used a lot in this song, but the majority of the stuff was Toxic Biohazard's presets that were tweaked a bit, and Albino3 analog synths that I don't even remember what I did with. The beats were taken from FL Studio XXL 9's drumkit 5, and I had some synth bass in there, I forget what plugin I used on that. Then for the voice, I used a speech synthesizer and a vocoder. THAT took me forever to figure out, but was fun to play with

[XS - As You Wake (Remaster)]

Melody's great but that snare and hat bug me...

Because if I remember correctly they're presets, and maaan heard them times to many... Very good song regardless.

[We ain't strung out here]

Cool beat but boring otherwise.

What did you use for that came in at around :40? Sounds pretty nifty.
Also...I ain't strung out neither... I'm jonsing...there's a difference.