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[AF - Forever (Original)]

Melodicaly awesome!

Hey man,
Excellent effort. touch too much compression though. I can hear it ducking in the wrong places.

Build is far too long. I keep waiting for it to explode into a fantastic array of huge beats, pumping basslines, and keep getting disappointed.

Notice I gave you a 9...you have to finish this man. These are some of the nicest trance melodies i've heard in years (and i've been listening / producing electronica for near on 20 years now)

again, awesome shit man
9/10
5/5

aliaspharow responds:

Dude, your a freakin god

[Life is the Drug - BK]

pretty decent

Heya man, Nice track. Intricate melodies, nicely put together. I'm not keen on the drum samples, they sound a bit hollow. Even a touch of reverb on them would probably go somewhere towards phattening them up. A nice phat snare would improve the beat considerably. Try layering several samples.

Sounds like theres some clipping happening as well. The bassline seems to be competing with the kick drum in some places, it kind of muds out a bit. Also, purely from a taste point of view, i think this track is screaming out for some big sweeping pads in the backround.

I'm on my second loop now (its playing as I write this) I notice that the clipping distortion comes in when the dnb bit comes in at about 1:35 til about 2:17 if this is by design, you should maybe limit the distortion to only the bassline, and not the drums.

Again, Nicely done mate. keep it up!

check mine and leave me some reviews if you feel so inclined!

Bracksta responds:

thanks for the review and tips :), i have been working on finding and making really great breakbeat percussion, it is very hard to get the thick yet pop sound. the bass is distorted on purpose :), i like saws. thanks for your time and effort, much appreciated!

[Search And Rescue]

mid 90's SNES music!?

its not too bad.. it sounds very "loose" and it doesnt really fit into the drum and bass catagory very well. you need more fx...delays, chorus, reverbs...you also imho need to use quantise, and at least manually adjust those notes into time...unless of course youw ere trying to get that "loose" sound.

instruments all sound too "GM" for me too..

not too bad man

lidlurch responds:

i really can't fit much of my music into the catagories that newgrounds gives out :P i'll think about that...i just don't know what else to do with this song, really :P you think the notes are out of time? i'm pretty sure they're in time...i'll check on that though

thanks for the review!

[Ghostbustin' @ 140 bpm]

excellent track. Great Interpretation :P

Nicely done mate :P eq is nice, its a touch on the slow side to be classed as DnB though..more like Breaks...but firmly and squarely great sounding breaks.

Drums sit nicely in the mix. I'm not sure about the choice of 909 style kick / hats / snares though. Thats just a taste thing.

I dont like the little pause / dropout at the end of each 16 bar set. It sounds like a rendering fault...although it obviously isn't. Maybe carry some reverb off a snare through the "dead" space, so It sounds less sharp.

But my gripes aside, nicely done mate :) keep it up.

Check my stuff, leave me some comments :P
8/10
4/5

Skela responds:

Thanks for review, I'll check your stuff out.

[ellipse]

Nicely done!

Quite impressive stuff! There are a few technical aspects which makes it fall a touch short of a "10" but thats a matter of personal taste more than anything else!

For me, I wasn't very keen on the bassline reece, sounded like there was a touch too much white noise and/or resonance on the sound (as you were sweeping the cutoff up mainly). Bring the sub bass out a bit more too! As I said, minor nitpicking for me..I'm a dnb purist ;-)

Omni Trio are a drum and bass crew on moving shadow records who have some really nice piano concerto type drum and bass, they've been around for years now. If you like this sort of stuff, you'd probably like them. Fire Island is one of my personal favourites, from the Skeleton Keys album.

4/5
9/10

broove responds:

Thanks for a great review. I'm always looking forward to technical criticism. This version isn't mastered properly (mastered version will come soon).

I'm familiar with Omni Trio (Higher Ground is very good). There are some things which I can learn from them, but they're not quite an inspiration to me.

[Sashuna - Crank That Drumnbass]

bad song choice..reasonable remix though.

Its not too bad mate :)

The drums sound a bit mashed together, and the ghost hits are a bit too loud for my liking. Snare pitch should be a bit higher too, try eq'ing more high end into the beats (specifically the snare..I dont know if its a bad sample, or you have lots of lowpass on it. A touch of plate reverb on the snare won't hurt either). Bassline and lead sit quite well though.

I really want to hear this with more snappy drums. In my opinion the drums let it down! but the concept is pretty good, and everything else is great (aside from remix song choice, but i'll let that slide, as yours sounds better than the original in its current state) :) Keep it up buddy :P

I agree with Pandakore too..it would have been a good track in its own right, without polluting it with soljatool...he's a chump ;-)

Rave4Yourself responds:

Thanks dude for the very detailed review, i've gotten better now - or at least dont stink as much - and i can definitely make stronger drums now, so thanks for the ideas and review and helpful tips :)

Glad you liked it man haha ;D