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[FEAST - Rampage]

Lessee...

I'm a fan of the fading chords in the beginning. I've done that once or twice. the side-chain effect before the guitar was awesome. The kick was perfect, and it was good and punchy.
I do think that while the guitar's soloing the beat kind of gets lost. the pulsing chords are by nature off beat so the tempo feels like it's being pulled. I feel like if you threw a very subtle high-hat into the background you could fix it however :). Or some toms a-la U-2.

And there are off-key notes. The little phrase at exactly 0:24. I think it's the delay
that's causing the dissonance. Maybe pan the effect?

All in all, I liked it. Nice and calming with only a few things that bugged me. I must compliment you on your mastering though. everything sat really nicely in the mix. :D

P.S. I really think this song deserves to be expanded on. It's practically begging for it!

FEAST responds:

Thanks for the great review. Someone else mentioned the off key notes but It's really hard for me to know where. Glad you mentioned the time where it happens. You had some great suggestions and I'm going to check all of them out. Please review more of my stuff. I'm practically begging lol.

[-=Changes=-]

Calming

However, the delay on the guitar was too strong. Turn down the feedback a little, it's creating a lot of dissonance that kind of ruins the song :/

If you tweak that, it'll be awesome. Really short, but a good start to a great song.

death-is-forever responds:

Thanks for the advice, I was trying to get that atmospheric effect... guess it didn't quite work. :p

Thanks again, maybe I'll expand on this soon, check back sometime.

[grooveT3K - Venusian Trip]

Kick up that bass!

It's missing that extra something. That thing that makes a track feel as though it's a living, breathing thing. The most obvious of which being that even with my bass boosting headphones, there's barely any lower-mid frequencies.

I also felt the drums could use some EQing, the didn't sit right in the mix, and felt out of place.

Other than that, I liked the melodies, and the rhthym was also good.

Keep at it :)

grooveT3K responds:

Thanks for your review mate and im pleased you enjoyed my track!

I agree with the drums I could have done a better job on a couple of the hits I got in there but I got a little bit rushed and wanted the track up for Australia day! lol

As for the lack of bass, I have a 2.1ch set in my studio and theres plenty of bass kicking, I also like to review them on my theatre setup which has Jenson dual 10" subs and they kick pretty hard. I do sometimes mix with my Pioneer HDJ-1000 heaphones (when ppl are sleeping lol) which I use for Dj'ing and they are really good for bass but still aernt that responsive for real low frequencys which this track mainly has, I did have a set of Senheisen audiophile headphones and they were a real studio set but still lacked in the low frequencys, the only set of head phones ive ever used that actually had impressive bass reproduction were the ones Dr Dre relesed, my mate had some and they were bassy! What sort of head phones you using?

Thanks again mate ;)

[~Alfa~ Craze (WIP)]

That's all 3xosc?

I believe it, never underestimate the power of that little guy.

I love it. Everything sounds very "full" and on top of that it's very well planned out. I would love to see the .flp if possible. I wouldn't dream of stealing anything, but i'd really like to pick it apart and see what you're doing.

When you said 'too many automations' I was worried it was gonna sound funky, but all the distortion and all of the filters really work. If it was longer i'd try to give you a bit more criticism in the composition department, but there's not really much for me to go by :/

9/10 because you didn't finish it. Can't wait to hear the full thing!

(Wow I listened to this while typing and I didn't even notice it was looping :O)

aliaspharow responds:

Thanks mate!

[-|FROST|-]

Err...

This song has the same intro as my song 'It Could Be Worse'. And a few of the transitions. And the same chord progression. Luckily it's a different key lol.

Don't say i'm copying you, mine was up first :p.

However, this song is more diverse than mine though. Much longer too.

15thDimension responds:

Oh wow I had no idea, I haven't ever taken a look at your songs.

[3 Hours to Midnight]

/drool

Great job! Normally i'm not that into 'classic' trance because I feel like i've heard it all before. This on the other hand has changed my mind.

The mixing gives it such a full feel. All your effects are great. If you've heard any of my songs, you'll know i'm a sucker for arpeggios with delay lol.

The flow is great, the leads have professional quality, and it has a diverse array of tones. Everything from beautiful to jumpy.

My only complaint is the outro. I know the guitar was used earlier in the song, but (to me) it just didn't conclude the song as well as I think it should have.

One last thing to end my wall of text here lol. Can I ask what synths you use? They have great tone.

syphonmax responds:

I used Nexus, Vanguard and Sytrus (:

[Skyscraperz]

It's all fine and dandy.

My only complaint is that the song never really hit a climax. It felt like it was constantly building up, but never really got there.

Also 3:22 the transition was kind of disappointing.

Also it felt kind of ... muted. If it was me, I'd add a little bit more to the higher frequencies in the synths here and there. As is it feels kind of muffled. That's just my opinion though. Bassey tunes are always good too :)

Lemonnade responds:

Thanks for the review. I think it's really helpful.

[[39] Silver [39]]

Twinkly.

I think 1:00 is little long to drag out an intro with only a single instrument. It had good melodies, it's just it felt like it needed to build more.

Also at 1:20, I like the bass. There's alot of it, it just feels like the lead synths don't sit well on it. I'd try messing around with the EQ to get em to fit better.

the snare roll at 3:11 was really overpowering, it cut out everything else :/

I do enjoy me some synth shredding, good stuff lol.
-And the transition with the LP filter was really nice.

You've got alot of ideas flying around in this song, and it feels like towards the end it kind of trails off. If you lengthened the song, and gave each segment a chance to breath, I feel like this whole track would flow a little better. It is an interesting style though, and I would like to hear more. You can only get better at it right? :D

flight39 responds:

Thank you for the kind review!
You were probably right about the intro, I should have added a couple more instruments to it as it went along.
If I can somehow recover the data from that song before my computer completely crashed a couple of days ago, I will definitely fill in some of the holes in the sound around 1:20. The overpowering snare roll at 3:11 was an unintended side effect of my mastering, and in the future I will try and fix that.
This was an incredibly helpful review, so again, thanks!