Halloween Inspiration
You really encompassed the perfect melodies and instruments to produce a perfect halloween environment.
The mallet percussions and bells glide perfectly, and the lower horn and tremolo synths make a creepy(but playful) feel. Sounds like this would be perfect for a halloweeen cartoon on Nickelodeon. Excellent work!
Hey S3C, thanks man. Cartoon on Nick eh?... I don't think I know anyone onver there...
A Foggy Night....
I enjoy these guitar tones here man. I can see someone traveling by night on a horse. The melody is a bit suspenful, a tad sad, and invokes emotions of a love based quest. The tone is euphoric and has a charming reverb. Great progression. All the instruments gel together nicely. I like the bass synth backing it. the soft beat sounds really sweet, however I think the volume on the percussion could be raised just an ounce tho..Very lovely tho! you must love the girl very much ;)
Funny thing there my suspended friend. This entire song is composed of only ONE sample from the Bexus plugin. there are no precussion samples directly that have been added to this song. Its all ONE HUGE FRIGGEN PIANO ROLL THAT TOOK 5 NONSTOP HOURS OF EYBLEEDING ATTENTION (twitch) of the same guitar sample, cloned into 4 channels ^_^ a 4 in 1 mighty combo if you will. When the notes of this sample are held down, they play a gated/delayed (whichever) note and the lower octaves (c4 and lower) have those staticy snare ish thingys that play along with the bass gate/delay thing.
One of my more creative pieces not only melodicly and musicly speaking...but also pretty creative compositionally as well......if that makes much sense XD
Im glad the reverb came out so nice. Its the basic Cathedral setting, but it seems to have been the perfect thing for this song.
So yea, to turn up the precussion would be to increase the bass....and the roll of bass is shared almost equally by all 4 clones of the sample......so i'd have some piano roll diving to do for that......4 times ><' sorry about that lol.
Im glad you liked the song though!!!!
Thanks for the review my friend!
~Twistedtechnology
This song accurately represents my mood
I was listening to this all last night when I was feeling down. I also like the sound quality here-some of the sounds sound a bit dull, but its perfect for a dark track like this.
I love the experimental dealy in the intro...Love the glitchyish beat and mellow sax, and cheapish organ bits. then the sax melodies become kinda uplifting around 1:30, and there's some cheeriness in the next phrase. Sounds so nice in here. And I love the guitar layed down on top. Excelllent groove. I also love the drums and percussion throughout, and their kinda tinnyish sound. it all works amazing in context here. The end is my favorite part, it portrays such a dark and depressing feel.
Vocals are also very nice. You sound a lot like Maynard from Tool, and even more like Jered Mckenna(myspace or soundclick him).
I'm very sad that you're only 65% done and you lost the files...;_; makes me wanna cry. I think what you've used in the end would be a suitable finish(even tho it doesnt sound entirely complete) if you just faded out the vocals and put some FX to make it interesting.
LOVE THIS CLIP MAN!
haha, listening to this prolly didn't help your mood, sorry to prolongue your blues:/
anyways, thanks for listening, glad you enjoyed it
;ped
Welly Executed
I definetly am not a "metalhead" but great job on this track. From what I've heard, usually (non-professional) people don't effectively use metalized vocals in a song like this. the growling, screaming is from deep within and sounds insanely evil in this track. So great job on the vocals, I usually don't like this style but this was definetly my favorite part of this track. They are very nice around 1:35 as well. I'm lovin the heavy ass guitar riffs. The guitar riff in the conclusion is perfect.
The acoustic sections adds a really nice creepy touch, the tone sounds almost medieval. I like the drums, they're suitable but sound a tad cheap. Would love to hear an electric guitar solo in here, even a acoustic solo fading out in the end would be perfect. Some gothic sounding choir pads would be a perfect fit in here as well.
excellent stuff! \m/
I'm astounded that there are people on NG, that actually review according to product... whether or not they like the type of music. I'm so used to seeing..."not my style..so I give it a 3". Not that I care about the score...its the attitude.
So HUGE thank you!
I agree with every aspect of your review. We are evolving...with every tune we work on and put out. So I hope you stay tuned. Definitely would like to hear your thoughts again.
So thanks for the kick ass review, and hope you listen to MORE metal in the future! \m/ haha.
Quarl? More like COORL
Cool + Quarl = COORL ahem excuse the lame joke...>_>
this a lovely, soft ambient piece. Once again, great job on the beat and drums, very rhyhtmically sound stuff as usual. They have a nice sound too and the whistle you add in every beat or so adds some diversity.
I love the cloud? synths stuff as they just skip through the track so sweetly. And I love when you harmonize the sounds. I love the lead guitarish sounding tones. Very serene melodies.
Great stuff! If I had to give some criticism, I guess you could use different levels of volume through out the track to make it more dynamic...maybe that would ruin the feel...but i'm loving it!
You mean some chrechendos and dechrechendos? I used a few in there. Dunno. The program I use doesn't have alot of dynamic control with the mixing process so it's hard to get things to sound right. Thanks for the nice feed back :)
Amazing
Those are beautiful, authentic sounding keys used in here. Great mastering job regarding the piano. Melodies and the rhythm fit the theme and lyrics perfectly. I love the breaks at the end of the main piano riffs(like 1:54-1:56) which is great branch into the chrous of the song. Good job on the drums as well, and I'm loving the moody chord progression.
The guitar solo in the end is also killer, love the distorted tone in here, it suchs a great sound...lots of emotion and nicely phrased. it's also starts off nice and slow, and has a clean leggato riff once it advances, and finishes off with the simpler high note melody perfect for concluding up a song. The bass seems like it could raised be a level to make a more fuller sound...
As for the vocals, they were sang quite well and constructed nicely with the flow of the keys in the song. but I just wasn't digging the overall style and lyrics-it just sounded a little bit unoriginal and a "LOL mainstream" love song to me, like something that could be on American Idol(but that could definetly be considered a compliment). BTW, i think some black gospel women would be perfect here for backing vocals! :D
Another criticism could be the entire structuring of the song. The song was already five minutes, but it seemed mostly like a dragged out intro-it wasnt really proportionate with the rest of the track. the first chorus was only 15-20 seconds long, i dont want to limit creativity, but IMO it would have been nicer if the "meat" of the song had more to it.
Overall, excellent portrayal of talent here. Beautiful work..
First of all, thank you for a very long and heartwarming review. :)
For the instruments, I made sure everything was "hit right". The painstaking cycle of listening to the entire song 10 times and then adjust the synthesizers paid off. Whenever I felt something was too loud or too soft, I tweaked a keypress. That took hours, and repetitive listening (I'm sure I've heard this song more than a hundred times). Thank Propellerheads for creating Reason. ^_^
Vocals could really have been better. The voice you're hearing now has been "cured" using bass boost and reverb. If you've heard the same song a week ago, you would've given a lower grade.
I agree with tweaking the bass guitar. Maybe 1dB up would be nice.
But, yeah, it's definitely a pop love song, and it would be great if someone would sing this on American Idol (so I'll take that as a compliment, thank you). And it's sort-of a "dragged-out" intro with variations. Again, it's pop -- chords are predictable and easy to remember (since there's only two sets of chords); I let the dynamics play the song.
Right now, I can't think of any way of restructuring the song. I find it perfect, or feel-perfect, at least.
Again, thank you for every compliment. Makes all the effort put here worth it. :)
I got say this is top ten!
In the most relaxing tracks I've ever heard. Perfect, proffesional sound. Perfect levels of reverb and its almost flawlessly mastered. The slowness, simpleness is calming and is perferct track to listen to right before going to bed.
The airy pads are perfect in here, they sound like an ocean of love. And I love the carribean based percussion with some jazz influenced bits in here(and I love how it picks up in the end!) The piano is so peaceful and the melodies flow with the track so perfectly. The Bass sounds amazing in here. I love the kinda muffled guitar sounding tone, and the riffs are sexy!
Great work!
Hi Suspended-3rd-Chord! :)
Thanks so much for yourwords, i really appreciate this kind of reviews!
Well, still there is a lot of work to be done but i'm glad you liked this track :)
Greetings from Italy (and not from caribbean sigh)
Davide
Well...sounds good
the loop is creepy as well....doesnt really remind of me of dungeon to be honest. it kinda reminds me of pipes...
anyway, I dont know what to grade you based on what you did in comparison of the original. I usually advise people to make their own stuff from scratch, but thats just me. so i'll just give you an 8.
either way, keep experimenting. and props for the mention of flashkit.com! its the first site where I saw "new" music, considering I had listened to only mainstream music prior. definetly is an inspiration towards me, not that you need to know :P
Thank you very much for your thoughts. Thanks for the suggestion about making my own stuff from scratch. At some point, I'll record such stuff.
Happy Mix
Lush Mix of euphoric sounds and melodies. The saw melodies flow so well. The panned chip synth around 1:30 is floaty...the drum beat started off pretty weak, but got nice around 2:00....also adding the bassier pad around this time adds a nice feel complementing the second half of your track and rounds out your track rather nicely. good clarity all around, I think you could have made the snare samples a bit louder. track definetly invisions a sky. nice work!
Thanks dude, My next song should be a lil better.
LMAO
i've listened to this countless times, and its SO FUCKING HILARIOUS AND RANDOM. MY BALLSACK IS REALLY FUCKING BIG <----lol man. do more like this.
whats funny is no thought went into this! I just did it RIGHT on the spot and we used it in a flash. People liked it there and BAM i put it here. Next time i go on a random rant i'll post it!
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-=LJC=- Halloween loop 2007