Age/Gender: 19, Male
Location: Illinois
Job: Student/Musician
I'm awesome. I would know, because it takes awesome to know awesome. I play bass, cello, guitar, drums, basic keyboards, and I'm working on harmonica and bagpipes. I win at life because of my new bass (see above picture)
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not bad for a remix. the major issue I had with it was the vocals. The first verse was good. the chorus just doesn't sound that great. I'd seperate the words and not make it sound like some drunk idiot is singing it. the second verse seems out of key. other than that, it's good. keep it up
Author's Response:
it wasn't the best vocals sorry. im looking for better ones to replace them.
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it seems very dull right now. you definitely need reverb in there. it helps. change up the instruments so they don't all sound similar. as of right now, it sounds like you just threw a bunch of patterns together. it feels as if they don't really fit well together. make them blend together. harmonize more
it has some potential, it just needs work
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thanks for the comment
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the one complaint I have is that it needs more bass. maybe that's just me, but I just feel it's lacking the bass. other than that, keep it up. this collab should be epic
Author's Response:
oh yes it should indeed be epic my friend
bass + ambient = hard to do, plus i never really like how its sounds
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yet another good piece of yours. once again, I only have one issue with it. to me, it feels as if it's lacking substance. it could do with more instruments, or more on the melody, something to kick it up a notch. other than that, it's great, so keep it up
Author's Response:
Thanks for the review!
I've been working on the issues you pointed out in other songs I'm currently making (not for Newgrounds, yet...), and I hope to have fixed them.
I made this using a midi keyboard, but I found out that I'm not too good at creating melodies with a keyboard, so I've gone back (back as in, before I started submitting stuff on Newgrounds) to actually writing music with notes and such :p
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it's a great loop. I can picture exactly what you described for it. the only problem I had with it was that the sax(?) seemed too fake. I could tell it was computer generated and that brought it down a bit. other than that, it totally works. keep it up
Author's Response:
Thanks, yeah I need to look for a better saxophone sample xD
Thanks for the review!
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...if not better. I like how you can tell it's still part of the same song, but it has it's own style about it. Still very unique and able to keep the listener from getting bored. definitely an interesting use of use of sounds and instruments.
Overall, another great job. Keep up the good work
Author's Response:
I'd argue its not 'better' granted its had the misfortune of being a single song lopped in 2.
As for achieving the status of 'interesting', my goal has been met.
Live heartily.
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this is such a unique piece. it's really hard to find anything wrong with it because of this. It definitely keeps the listener's interest throughout the song, which is a good thing being 6 minutes for the first half.
Overall, great job. Going to listen to the second part now
Author's Response:
Excellent that the first half doesn't scream of repetition.
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I only have two issues with it.
1. Maybe it's just me, but it feels like the bass at the beginning (0:26) feels a bit off. It seems intentional, but without any surrounding music, something just doesn't sound right in my opinion.
2. The kick should be deeper. For me, it got slightly annoying after a while
other than that, I loved it. Keep it up
Author's Response:
ahhhh noone seems to like that kick sound except me D:
and yeah i think i need something accenting the on-beat in the first bit asdafsda
thanks for the kind words and pointers! :)
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I really like the dark feel it has. true industrial right there. Once it hit :40 though, I wasn't a huge fan of the melody. It was too happy for this song if you ask me. Once that dropped out, the song flowed very well and I have nothing else I can really say is wrong with it (until the "happy" comes back at 3:50, but not that big a deal since I already mentioned it).
keep up the good work
Author's Response:
I felt the change of melody theme helped break the song up a bit, I didn't want the entirety of it to be grundge.
However, I'm quite pleased the song actually has a discernable 'flow'. I was quite concerned about loading this one up on NG. :P
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I understand it's an ensemble, so I have no complaints about the lack of substance as others have said. I especially love the build-up towards the end. I do feel, however, that some instruments are a bit weak. for example, I think that the drums overpowered the melody at the beginning in the first 19 seconds. Maybe bring that out a little bit and you've got it.
Author's Response:
Continueing tinkering with volume. Clipping is gone, but some things got a tiny bit shifted off from where they were before.
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