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Wow, this mac is starting to feel a little too close for my comfort. I love the progression, harmonic pads in the background, bellodies serenading me, nice cheesy snare, heh, lots of space in this mix. Ooh, great evolving pads there at 3:00, and hey, hats, and a slightly less cheesy snare? Alright, we're getting somewhere, still have 2 minutes to go...
Wait, the last minute is fadeout and silence? Did something go wrong there?
-ac-
Author's Response:
Hm I was thinking of adding on more but i a bit of writer's block, so i ended it.
Thanks for the review, glad you liked it :)
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I CAN DO THIS! I CAN MAKE IT! YEAAAA! ALRIGHT WE DID IT! CONGRATS TEAM WE DID IT GOOD WORK!
Ooh, I like this part with the hats and little doodads on the percussion coming in, cool guitar melody, ahh and then the melody you were talking about comes in, and wow that's pretty damn fucking shitawesome, man that part was powerful! Euphoria inducing awesome.
Melikey
-ac-
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YES!
Exactly what I needed to hear...especially after the original couple votes it got haha
The Admiral RULE$$
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"VERY cool atmosphere to this track!"
Ohhh I love those harmonies in the beginning, and OOH key changes!
The lead and the background pads, the way the rhythm literally bounces my head and up down, icicle synths chiming away and clawing at my brain, love love love the pads, ooh, the gated(?) synth's melody around 4:07 is what I was talking about, and now a distortion effect on the original sine-ish lead! A man after my own tastes. I like the diversity in this song man, I am a huge fan of making things sound new constantly throughout a song. Great work! Why isn't this in the MAC? (Unless it is, and I'm just dumb)
-ac-
Author's Response:
Thanks for the rave review, man! And yes, this is supposed to be a MAC-8 entry, though I didn't explicitly write it down in the description for this version. And yeah, I like the pad parts too :) - often when I do electronic music, it's either very bleak abstract stuff, or pad happy ones like this one (though it does also have a bit of abstractness in it). I'm glad you picked up on the diversity - I tried to keep the basic building blocks in this piece to a minimum, and just tried to play around with changing and arranging them in various small ways.
Oh, and best of luck in the MAC!
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I'd agree with dj-sleeper about your strokes-like sound with guitar, if you'd played that in a higher octave, it would have sounded like the chorus to "Reptilia", haha. I really like when the bass guitar comes in, cool bassline indeed.
However, I have a few critiques:
1. I'll start off by saying that sleepers review did not come off as condescending at all, and if you can't take a review as kind as that, maybe the music business is going to be FAR TOO INFURIATING FOR YOU.
2. I agree that your vocals are not really in time, though sometimes they are. I also just don't like your vocal melodies. When you actually have a vocal melody, it's too low for your voice.
3. The song is lacking power, it's missing like a bridge building up to a euphoric final chorus release, or something maybe less generic than that formula, but something nonetheless.
Just a few things.
-ac-
Author's Response:
Yeah what you said is mainly true - about the singing especially, although I know the the left and right channel vocals throughout the song don't sync, that's not by accident. The music business would be too infuriating for me, but I have no intention of entering it; I love music, but it will always be a passion that I persue at an amateur level. I really don't develop anything here, but stick to a single main idea, which is what I seem to have more success with; anytime I try to make anything more complicated, it is utter trash. With music, though, sometimes simplicity well done is best ( a lot of Red Hot Chilli Peppers songs are a good example of this ). I appreciate your insightful thoughts on my song, and thanks for writing.
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Euphoric: Check
Solid Production: Check
Boner in my pants: Check
I loved the piano melodies, and I love the pads you've got going on too, chord progressions are majestic, the drums are light and bouncy and catchy and fun, and a rainfall sample!
I love how the song starts, flanged/chorus'd low octave piano chords are tits!
Great job man
-ac-
Author's Response:
haha thanks a bunch man, I appreciate it
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I love the power of the low end in the chords at the song's open, wish that piano had a bit more variation on the velocity, give it a little more natural of a feel. That kick/bass compression is pretty powerful, but I almost feel like it could be distracting, something about it is putting me off slightly. I really like the piano countermelodies throughout, but I wish that the song had taken off to the next level. Something no one could forget, but as it stands, at least in my eyes, this is just like a technical demo; the songwriting is lacking. Sorry man, I feel like that's coming off a bit harsh but I don't know how else to put it.
-ac-
Author's Response:
Thanks for your input. I'm going to work on it a bit more and reupload it.
Thanks again,
Nate
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It's like a hairy guy is ramming his trance penis into my ear...
Is it strange that I like it?!?
I love how much the breakdown makes me miss the drums, only to have them fill the soundscape so fully. Great space in the mix, if that makes any sense, that's some power compression on the kick, I really dig it man, however I do notice when your love for the track does evaporate. Oh well, move on to bigger and better things!
-ac-
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Incredible stuff, man. I love the amorphous bass, the pad, that little kazoo-like lead. Those drums are tough! Ooh, I like this bit with the 16th note bellish sounds, what a cool sounding synth! Just fantastic stuff from you, as always. Oh man, I love the glitching, amazing!
-ac-
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This is the score for a love scene in a neo noir sci fi escape film. 'nuff said?
This piece has so much breadth to it, new effects popping in and out of both (or more? I only have 2 on this comp) channels, and the vox, which I believe says love. The doopy synth that pokes it's head in periodically throughout sounds like a future ATM's booping and beepings. I've always been a bit jealous of your ability to glitch things up to hell and beyond.
-ac-
Author's Response:
Thanks AC - really nice to hear from you - been a while.
Again - apologies for the extremely late response.
Good ears there - the word "love" does appear in one of the samples used. The doopy synth is in fact sounds from a future ATM. I recieved an email from myself dated 15 years in the future and there was a .blit file attached. (New format - won't actually be invented until 2018) I was going to delete it but then, six days prior, I got another email from my future self with a freeware copy of Blit2Wav attached and I managed to convert the samples into a usable format. From what I understand, my future self is doing alright - not making any money from music though, so I guess I don't need to try that hard. Not like I'm going anywhere with it. :)
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This song goes on entirely too long, boring synths, and a crashing waves loop, and inferior, repetitive, homogenous drums. Kind of overindulgent, cheesy melody. Nothing really has any power in this song, I'm kind of waiting for the breakdown, or a second verse, or a chorus, or bridge, or... hell, anything. Also, it's not really very ambient, the drums and the melodies and key imply action. Not much really soothing about this piece.
Sorry if this all sounds harsh. It seems to me like you worked on this for about 2 hours and called it a day.
-ac-
Author's Response:
There can be more to ambient than calming sounds. The melodies and drums add some originality and makes it different from all the other ambient songvs out there.
You kind of contradict yourself when you say that the drums are repetitive and nothing has any power. Well, ambient isn't meant to have all that power, it's supposed to be soft and relaxing. Then you backtrack and say that it's not really ambient because the drums and melodies aren't simple enough. That's kind of the opposite to what you implied before. Sure, it may repeat a lot, but that's a part of ambient. If I cut it down too much, it'd have too much action in the riffs and it'd sound even less ambient. So it's stretched out to let it all sink in.
I get that you don't really like it, but I put a lot more work into it than you think. There was a decent amount of trial and error in order to get to the starting point. I needed to pick out instruments that aren't too overpowering, but can still handle the sound. I had to come up with a progression to which I could layer them all in together, I had to come up with over a dozen riffs that can all interweave with eachother. I needed to add sound effects into the background to make it more soothing. I needed to balance out the instruments so they weren't too loud but not too quiet. I needed to create a drum loop that was not too overpowering but pleasant in the background, ambient doesn't mix with percussion, so it wasn't easy to make the drums sound like they were meant to be there, to give it a bit of extra drive. 2hours? I worked on this for a whole day, probably 8-9 hours straight.
I don't mean to sound harsh in my response, but maybe you'd sound less harsh if you put some honest constructive criticism into your review.
I'm thinking this may because I sounded harsh when I reviewed one of your songs, but I did offer constructive advice and an honest opinion.
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