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[{B.A.B.} Bagattella di Estate]

Drinking at the pub

Ha, this submission made me feel great.
At first, it felt like it was set to be a drinking song, everything you used in composing this really came together well, it sounded excellent. Like SCTE3 said, reminded me of a children's cartoon with them adventuring, doing whatever it is that they're doing... Something like just running around, seeing what sort of things they can see. Felt really good, it's the sort of song where somebody can listen to it, and really just fall in to it's grip. Easily mesmerized by a piece like this, can really make the mind go anywhere.

Excellent work.

~RRC~

blackattackbitch responds:

Thanks dude, just what I needed to brighten up an otherwise very shitty day.
I'm glad you like it!

Judging from the fact that some of the toughest reviewers on NG like this song, maybe I should write more "happy" songs rather than my normal, somewhat angry stuff lol

Thanks again for the review, and hell, thanks for liking it! Knowing you and other guys like to hear this stuff makes it all worth it.

[Ballad of a dying man v2]

Not too bad

At the very beginning, I was really digging this. Sounded like a sort of emotional instrumental, possibly one that I would even consider using.
However, once the kicks and hats came in, it sounded a bit... Off compared to the intro part of the song.
Kicks were too silent, felt a little dumbed down compared to what they could have been, I'd say if they were louder and had more power in them it would sound much better altogether.

Hats are nice, nothing wrong going there, but the kicks are what really bother me in this instrumental.

There is always room for improvement, and I'd say spend a lot of time getting to know your song before you submit it, it's still something I am learning to do myself, because once I think I am finished one I am so tempted to just submit it. I'm not saying it's bad to submit them right away, but give it a listen quite a few times before you submit, but never hesitate to come to the audio portal for some criticism, you can only get better.
Also, about the gunshot... Felt a little strange, but hey, remember that you're doing music for yourself before you are doing it for anybody. Your music is your art man, it's your way of expressing yourself.

~RRC~

[(CS3) - Stroll on Tenth A]

Beautiful

Amazing track my man.
The part that really made me enjoy it for how much I did was the beginning bass line, felt real nice listening to that.
Like SCTE3 said, reminds me of 'outlaw' sort of music, at first anyway, I think of a western. But when it gets going more, it just feels like sitting in a club, and having the band play their music while you're having a few drinks. Really good stuff.

I wish it were a bit longer though, it has great potential if it were to be a full song man... I'd say if you still have interest in doing it.. Do it!
Production was great, everything sounded incredible man... Love your submissions that I have heard so far.

~RRC~

camoshark responds:

Thanks alot, goes straight to the heart! :)

As for the outlaw feel, that was exactly what I was aiming for, so I guess I did it right!

Thanks again, great reviews and I hope to hear more from you!

Cheers

[What in the Fuck? (Chromanut)]

Woo!

Great stuff man.

At first, it felt like your typical trance/techno song, which I see being added to a lot of dubstep lately rather than it sounding real grimey and all that.
After the "what in the fuck?!", it got incredible.

Bass was great from what I can tell with my speakers, good use of samples as well, everything sounded just about flawless. My only suggestion would be to maybe use a bit less high pitched stuff, but then again that's just a personal issue I have with music like this, high pitched gets to me. After the beginning though, it's great man.

Keep doing this if you enjoy it, because I know we are!

~RRC~

Chromanut responds:

hmm i thought i did pretty well with keeping the high pitched stuff down, i really wanted the bass to push threw, seems i missed the mark a bit

[[dB] Il Gatto Negro]

Real nice

It's really nice, sounds are almost top-notch... It's really hard to give you a near constructive review because of the length... I'd say keep this up, work on this track a little more.... It is worthy of being much longer.
Jazz is a great genre of music, as is the Blues, I think you would be good at doing both of those!
Just keep it up, work on this one a little more... Add more to it is all.

Keep doing your thing man, I'd love to see this as a complete song rather than what seems to be a loop.

~RRC~

Decibel responds:

Thanks for the input! :)
[deciBel]

[Scorched Hair and Burnt Guitar]

Pretty good

The vocals are nice, but I'd really recommend getting some better equipment to record with... It seems you're quite dedicated to making your music so I would suggest that you spend some cash on getting studio gear, learn how to use it and make some better sounding music.

The guitar is nice, I've said this in another submission of yours, you're good at guitar.
The one issue I had was the 'ooooooh' parts, sounded a little off compared to the rest of the vocals, if that's what you were shooting for then that's good... Same is said with the 'yeeaaah' parts, or whatever is being said.

At the part around 3:14 it sounded a little worse quality wise, you have a good voice, but the quality is just not very good there as it seems you begin trying to get louder... That being said, I'd suggest you do work on getting some better equipment. Besides that, keep it up.

4/5 / 7/10

~RRC~

Ryanson responds:

Yeah, I hated doing it. But I SO wanted to do it. I wanted to for so long. In fact, I wanna do a bunch of songs. Just gonna take a bit to do them all. As soon as I do, I'll find another I want to do. :P

Now personally I disagree. The "ooh"s before the guitar solo, I think, sound real good. I did the same sort of doubling on the solo it self. But to each their own. That's why I asked for a critic's opinion. :)

Thanks for the review.

[Heaven's Cries]

Production is nice

A large part of the beginning sounds very... noisy like thatbennyguy said, disjointed is the right term as well I am sure... I was trying to think of what to say without stealing his words but I can't really.

When I think of industrial, I think of groups like Combichrist and stuff. In my eyes, that is real industrial music... This just wasn't delivering the industrial feel to me, it sort of sounded like there was an epic choir singing, and then a hammer slamming on an anvil... I didn't really get in to this song until around the last 60 seconds or so, and that's kind of a disappointment because by then the song is already nearly finished.
I think you have a lot to work on, once it hit's around 2:30 the song gets really good.. It was almost like you had a 2 minute, 30 second intro and left the song to play for only about a minute.. That bothers me as a listener.

Just keep it up, hopefully this review will help in a way... Doubtful because I am not quite good with criticism on music of this genre, but give it a shot anyway.

Keep doing your thing

2/5 4/10

Kirbyfemur responds:

Lol well i do plan on expanding the song, but i mostly wanted to see what people though of it so far, and the mixed views about it aren't saying enough to make any real drastic changes yet. but thank you none the less. What i would say about the genre issue when it comes to reviewing, if it doesn't fit the genre, don't vote based on that, i would say vote based on how good it is and make a comment about where to put it possibly. :3

[-:.Vugonette.:-]

Pretty good.

Okay, the 8-bit feel is very nice... I love 8-bit, so that really sucked me in to this song.
My MAJOR issue with it, is that it gets in to the song so fast! There's something about that, and it just bothers me. I know a lot of songs in this genre and ones alike start almost instantly like this, and it's an issue that I have always had with it. There's not really any build up, it just starts going as soon as you hit play and I feel that it doesn't give the listener any chance to sort of 'Get To Know' the song, if you catch my drift in what I am saying with that.

Besides that, it's a fairly good song, having it a bit longer would be nice, and if it had an intro to it, that would be fixed... Would add some more length to your song, and like I said, let the listener kind of get to know it... Not too bad though, but you do have things to work on.
Keep it up!

3/5 - 7/10

~RRC~

garlagan responds:

Thanks for the feedback... Well, about the buildup issue, I gotta say I like how it begins, I think it isn't so violent or something like that. I guess this has to do with musical taste, I prefeer this kind of intro rather than a longer/slower one in this type of music.
Thanks for the review :D

[Here We Go [WIP] {Dj-Abbic}]

Nice!

Build up is really good, at first if I hadn't looked at the genre as House, I would have thought it to be a Classical submission just because of the intro.
The song get's into it real good after the intro, nice build up like I said.

The claps are really good, sound excellent.
A lot of problems I have with artists submissions as of late is the length of their submissions, too often I see ones that are around 1:30 - 2:00 minutes, songs like these of this genre and I just can't stand that. I think it is far too short for songs of this type, so you get some bonus points for making it a longer one.

Unfortunately, I can't really point out any problems I had with this one because it is not a genre I listen to often at all, only sometimes.
But the majority of it sounds really good to me, so just keep at it... Sounding professional and that's a really good thing.

4/5 - 8/10

~RRC~

DjAbbic responds:

Thanks alot for the review first of all :)

I really worked on the claps in this one because alot of professional artists' claps sound alot better than just a hit-snare.

I'm really glad you found this sounding professional, just what I want :D

There are, however, quite a bit of mastering issues, such as 5:25 and 5:27, where the kick goes flat. I'll try my best to fix some of these though :).

I also find that it's lacking in the low end, might do something there too, thanks alot for the review though :)

[Stargenx - Love and Pain]

Short

Really enjoy the piano in this one...
Everything has a nice sort of 'build up', but I just feel that it ended far too soon. I know that you stated in a response to the other review that it was your emotions put in to the song, and you just couldn't make it any longer. But I personally believe that when emotions are poured in to music, those emotions should create the longest, greatest and most touching songs you'll ever write in your entire life.
So, that was my major issue with this song, not much else comes to mind about it being bad at all.. I just feel that it was going so great, and then it just came to an end, leaving the listeners wondering why, or what.

My only suggestion is that if you ever decide to do another song with your blood sweat and tears put in to it, you make it at least 3 - 4 minutes long, I usually go for 3 - 4 when I'm doing an emotional track, some artists I know go 6 - 7 minutes. If you really want to put your emotions in to it even more than you already have, I'd say that is how you do it.

Never rush in songs like these, spend days or weeks on them, let your heart make the music.

8/10 4/5

~RRC~

Stargenx responds:

Thanks for the review. I don't believe that the most emotional songs have to be the *longest* songs, though.