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[Home Again Dx_Cover]

Groovy

It has an awesome ambient build up while the groove gets going.
Nice sound selection.

The beat varies from here to there to wherever, it's a little refreshing.

Wait, home alone 3? they made more after the first?

DISTRIX responds:

Yeah, I think there are 4 Home Alone movies lol.

[A Field]

not what I usually listen to

But I still have the balls to scroll down and wright that I like it.
The snare is adds a nice touch. kinda rolls about.

I watched some of the Maplestory Anime for educational purposes, This song reminds me of that.

JohnnyCBad responds:

Awesome, thanks for the comment :3

[Imperial - Down]

Well well well.

What did you use before Fruityloops?

The song isn't cutting edge, but it's still quite excellent.
I rated it based on my personal listening experience rather than what I thought of it while analyzing it. hope you don't mind xD

5/5 9/10

PostImperial responds:

I fiddled around with different programs for a year in a music theory / composing class. I never really had a main program till I bought FL studio.

[Atm.o.spherE]

Advice and handling

This Side Up ^

I'm not sure if you have a strong enough compressor on the master channel if at all.
There's crackling on headphones at the piano part with the lower frequencies.

The bass drum lacks a bass to it, making it hard to use for a thump even with powerful speakers. It also relies on whether or not you're intending for this to be played on loud speaker or not. Where as I know you wouldn't want the kick to hit specific frequencies, it feels cornered between the instruments making it weak and feeble.
Near the 1:57 mark a strong thump does come in but it doesn't stay long.

This is one of those harder pieces for some people to get into from just the intro.

Over-all I was slightly disappointed, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy this piece.
<3
keep up the good work!

Podel1 responds:

thanks for the comment ;)

[A Fragile Heart]

Touchy

There's some need of a tighter compressor, there's some crunching from some loud points.
I'm enjoying this piece very much, it's very calm!

As of suggestion, a catchy/punchy hip-hop beat wouldn't be so bad.
And if you never get around to it, I will....With maybe some lyrics and a vocoder.

In the end, I hope things work out for you in life!

DarkWalker2090 responds:

Thanks. I am not a singer my voice it too deep for that XD. Other then that a beat i will look into place in there, I will need to listen to the different drums sets. other then that...the crunching sound...i think that is when it compressed XD. but i do thank you. and my life will get better as time goes on. Can't let everything get ya down you know.

[Freak like]

Haters be Hating

And Zero bombers be bombing
But just so you know, we humans like this.

Very sexy mix here.

GoodSickBeats responds:

thanks man ! much obliged

[Acid Intermission - BeefourMus]

Makes me feel

Propeller-head.

Nice job, really melts!

SUB4RU responds:

Thanks Mr Green.

- BeefourMusic -

[40 Million Kelvins]

If your music was food,

What would it taste like?
The synths of this song reach some interesting area's as they wander around the stage. Some of these sounds are loud and others obnoxious. I like the grungy sound that occurs right at the start.

Man, what a useless review, I feel like I just wasted some of our time.

4.50/5 & 9/10

SuperKirbyMaster responds:

lol thanks, man!

[grooveT3K - Concentrate.]

Honestly, Dance music bores me

This isn't too bad, you have different elements that keeps it from completely loosing my interest.
I love the different effects and little things that come into place.
I do get a nagging tired feeling....Hey, I should listen to this kinda stuff before bed.

Excuse me, I'm going to assume you're using fruity loops again. What you can do for saving CPU is press the shortcut F10, go to the Audio tab on the left side and turn the settings to Use 32Bit buffer only, place the buffer length to about 976 samples(23~24ms) and turn priority down, make sure Safe overloads is turned on.
Turning down the priority will make it not sound as good while playing in fruityloops, and if that doesn't help you can play with the buffer settings to make it operational while the sound quality decreases.
You can change them back after finishing the song, preventing CPU overload.
If you're not using FLs, the general idea for cpu saving is the same.

grooveT3K responds:

Hahaha, thanks for the review mate, espically considering you dont really like the genre.
and your presumtion is correct, I do compose in FL9, I have only really been using it for about 6 months intermittently and am always trying to learn new techniques and also my way around the program its self.
Also I really appreciate the info on the system proformance because that will really come in handy ;)

Thanks again for the feedback mate!
Much appreciated!

[grooveT3K - Keep Moving.]

Pretty cool

You used side-chaining on the pads right?
Also, you haven't mentioned what the name of the reverb plug-in is, I'm quite curious.

There's a little bit of distortion when the piano effects reach too high of a filter peak near the end, you might want to have a sort of limiter to keep it from hitting the peaks. Or just go around and have the filter on a slightly weaker/saturated setting.

As for a suggestion, though I don't know what program you're using if at all... The voice generator sounds very much like the FruityLoops generic version. A vocoder would be a viable suggestion. You could select a synth or make your own preset that still makes it sounds robotic but not the generic setting. Using the vocoder you could even use your own voice and make it a more pristine robot voice.
There's lots of tutorials around for using vocoders, and if you're not using Fruityloops, the tutorial for the fruityloops vocoder applies to allot of vocoders out there.

All in all, 5/5 9/10

grooveT3K responds:

Hello again ;) you are correct, I did use sidechaing on m ay pads, I do love to sidchain :)
as for the reverb plug in its the standard FL delay bank which is really very powerful when you start playing with it.
Also the robot voice is the voice synth that comes with FL aswell, I did concider using the vocodex and using my own voice but I havent really experimented with my own voice yet, its still early days in my production experience ;)
Finally at the end of the track when its just the piano playing the "distortion" type sound your hearing isnt actually distorting I layered a filter over the top that sort of closes the frequencys into a certain range to make it sound like its almost in a bubble thats moving...or something like that...but it is meant to sound like that ;)

Thanks again for your feedback mate and I will be having a look at your work in the coming days (when my internet isnt slowed) to see how someone that obviously has more knowledge in the area does his thing ;)

EDIT: I was listening to this in my headphones the other night and heard the distortion you mentioned, the filter I used in the end part does make some of the peaks a little distorted, I couldnt really notice it on the speakers I was using.